TSI Plastics joins The Aerospace Industries Association of America

TSI Plastics is proud to announce their recent acceptance to the
Aerospace Industries Association of America.

AIA is the voice of the aerospace, defense, and homeland security industry, representing the nation’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of civil, military, and business aircraft, helicopters, UASs, space systems, aircraft engines, missiles, materiel, and related components, equipment, services, and information technology.

The guiding principles of the AIA fit well with TSI's vision and desire to develop and maintain partnerships and coalitions with government, national and global stakeholders who desire efficient accurate solutions in the production of parts and equipment for the aerospace industry.

Kaizen Implementation

• Team members were trained in Kaizen and in Cell Design. Review of the current state
  and then documenting the processes on the ‘Process Analysis Worksheet’ identified
  NVA activities. Time Observation and Work Combination forms used with Family Capacity Process calculations indicated that there was no constraint. From the VA/NVA designations on the PA Worksheet, and from the review of the TIMWOODS wastes,
  a plan was made to make the improvements eliminating waste. We worked to
  implement POU of all components, FIFO lanes for curing adhesives, relocated the
  marking process with tags to prevent inadvertent shipment, Standard Work diagrams
  for sub-family runners, Included 6-S considerations, etc.
  
  
• Flow was enhanced with Breakthroughs consisting of “pre-marking and grinding”
  ducts and eliminating hand mixing and application of epoxies
  
  
• We relocated the packaging to within the cell. We took the “pre grinding” out of the
  cell and reduced the FOD Potential. With power assisted application of epoxy, it is expected that the “cleanup grinding” will be reduced, or even eliminated, adding to
  the savings.
  
  
• This Kaizen Event enables TSI to approach the customer who currently takes shipments on a quarterly basis. TSI can now offer more regular shipments, package the ducts into “ship-sets” and are in a position to offer “added value” by adding other brackets, gaskets, and assembling the ducts (-1,-3, -5, -7 to the four -29’s). The duct assembly can run on continuous flow with careful EPEI scheduling, and leave about 6 hours per
  day to assemble other non-adhesive components.