Success Stories - Cost Savings

Dell Innovation Services helps Redesign Combine Cab Landing

Redesign Combine Cab LandingThe Challenge

Part failures, safety, and production costs were of major concern to Dell Innovation Services’ client, a fortune 500 farm implement manufacturer. For a Combine Cab Landing currently in production, Dell Innovation Services was asked to redesign the landing assembly to meet five specific goals:

  • Improve part failure rate
  • Meet manufacturer’s safety requirements
  • Simplify fabrication procedures
  • Reduce production costs where possible
  • Establish single-source parts procurement for the ladder assembly

The Solution

A total redesign of the Combine Ladder Assembly was completed. The following engineering processes were employed to reinforce the part assembly to eliminate product failures and to increase production cost efficiencies.

  • Design
  • FEA Analysis
  • Cost Analysis
  • FMEA
  • Project Management

Dell Innovation Services part assembly redesign reduces production costs, eliminates complex tooling & improves safety.

Redesign Combine Cab LandingThe Result

Dell Innovation Services’ Proof-of-Performance Engineering Process delivered the following results:

  • Eliminated part failures
  • Reduced costs by $4.00 per unit
  • Established a single-source supplier for top assembly fabrication
  • Utilized common tooling to reduce costs
  • Created a common design usable on all cab landing sizes
  • Reduced lateral handrail movement
  • Utilized a tread pattern common to industry eliminating tool costs
  • New design fits old production model to ease service concerns
  • Production ladder and handrails are interchangeable among model

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