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How a Swiss Watchmaker Cut Assembly Time by 60 Percent
Episode 65 of The Operations Podcast digs into how one mid-tier Swiss watchmaker transformed its assembly line using cellular manufacturing and just-in-time principles. Lucas and Luna walk through the specific changes—cutting workstations from 47 to 12, reducing work-in-progress by 80 percent, and training assemblers to do multiple tasks—and discuss why traditional batch production had been the industry norm for decades. They also explore the cultural resistance the company faced and how a three-month trial on a single model convinced skeptics. A concrete case study in lean operations from an…
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