Case Study

Rolls Royce Bergen Engines

Industry

Power Generation & Marine Engines

Organisation Profile

  • Full design Manufacture, installation and on-going maintenance contracts
  • Fuel efficient and flexible gas and diesel engines from 1,400 to 11,830 kWe with high availability and operational flexibility
  • Integrated power plant solutions based on modular systems, delivering reliable electrical power to the grid
  • Power plant design and project management
  • Long term service agreements and plant operations experience
  • Export finance
  • Partnering for turn-key Installation
  • Engines for Marine applications 
  • With sales of 239 million pounds employing over 1000 people across 9 countries
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Background

The division has a long track record in the design, development and manufacture of lean-burn reciprocating gas engines. Downsizing recently, due to a reduced demand in the marine market, the organisation is seeing a growth in its targeted power generation market. This sudden growth meant that the company was struggling to meet committed delivery schedules  leading to large, extra, expediting costs inbound and customer deliveries. These consequential charges created an environment where teams were blaming each other for the delays and increased costs and frustration levels were very high.

Brief

Coiniston Cook was engaged to support the leadership team in developing a strategy to resolve long term issues whilst supporting the tactical ability of the organisation to meet current demands. Our brief also extended to developing the leadership’s capability in the process and developing the high potential team members.

Steps We Took

Having conducted a two week review we identified the areas of key concern (detailed in the diagram below ) and developed a road map to resolve the issues with the leadership’s first lines. We then developed a’3s for each of these key areas which in turn produced Tactical Implementation Plans.

We also developed a set of KPI’s to ensure the organisation was able to navigate and move from opinion based debate to data driven decisions. We worked with each department to develop this for each team

In conjunction with Think Works we developed a two day leadership development conference, (see agenda excel file)

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Outcome

KPI's

Each department had an aligned plan with KPIs and reports (see example below). 

Results included:

Expediting Cost Reduction 70%
Expediting costs were reduced by 70 %
Misfit Reduction 80%
Misfits reduced by 80% 
100 %
Production  doubled

LEAN

LEAN techniques and leadership developed to enable them to continue and tweak the plan themselves

Since our involvement the team has continued the work and have  several large power generation contracts. The business is currently undergoing  diligence for its sale and we hope to be involved  again in the future.

We remain in bi monthly contact with the leadership for advice and debate.

Departmental example

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