New Nautique Production System

With a new factory, I would think it would be more assembly line, factory type of production. I toured the old factory in 2000, and it consisted of cement block buildings and the production seemed very labor intensive and everything was hand made, much like you'd expect a small boat yard to be.

I would guess their manufactoring process will be more like a big boat company's.

I love all the "six sigma" and "system" MBA terminology. To me it's pretty basic, make a profit by turning out a good product with minimal cost and waste.

they are not changing the way they build boats or the materials that they are using.

Lean six sigma is not building something until there is a need for it, i.e. an order for a 2008 230 SAN in red with gray stripe or a pull system vs. a push system. wait tell there's an order and build it, or build it then try and sell it hopefully by the end of the month.

It basicly a process improvement tool to judge quality, reduce scrape/waiste and improve production process all ready in place and implimenting new ones as needed.

So look forward to a higher quality boat in the near future and better stock returns if you own any in the company. This Stuff has been around for decades just not a lot of talk about it.

M3Fan wrote: Will this help drive the value of the old "hand built" boats? It sure has in the realm of musical instruments, although I realize it's a totally different industry.

won't change a damn thing

One of my concerns is that perhaps one process to be streamlined would be, say, building the floor into the boat. And building stringers into a boat by hand. Wouldn't it be easier and more streamlined to pre-fab this stuff and glue it down? Oh wait- other companies already do that...

Just seeding conversation here.

I totally agree with 79. It won't change anything. For example, I was evaluating a test station for an Engine Controller. We did a process map and then a FMEA (failure mode evaluation analysis). We determine were the problems might be. We started taking data on the pressure controlles and compare three other standard. At the end we found that the current controller were not optimized for the range of the test and that the calibration tool had a drift over time. This reduced 80% of false failures on that test station and the metrology people wanted to kill me because I proved their equipment was crap.

yea nobody wants to be told they are wrong even if you have cold hard facts in front of them and it's clearly an issue they are causing.

79nautique wrote: there's not a whole lot of areas to change your not building a boat using a robot to lay-up the hull completely.

Malibu churns out boats that are GREAT boats and are built in what appears to be a much more efficient fashion. Notice how once they switched to their FIBECS stringer system, they absolutely took off as a company. There's no way that CC could NOT consider changing their techniques after seeing successes like this, IMO. Malibu is doing very well and I'm sure something could be learned from their building techniques. Again, just throwing it out there.

Joel bad words just bad words...

hey off topic a little who's got the uglist towers nowa days? centurion, have you seen them lately, butt ugly junk is all I saw at the boat show over the week-end pretty sad looking stuff if you ask me.

Many corporations rolled out "Six Sigma" years ago.
Identify waste and eliminate it.
Identify wasted effort and eliminate it.
Identify suppliers of defective parts/equipment and eliminate them.

Bottom line is, monitor everything and change nothing.... They usually find that it costs more than the return on the investment and is shelved.

Roger

anthonylizardi wrote: Look at the F16, born in 1974 still state of the art and very capable.

Agreed, but it hasn't seen much competition in that time from other nations.

M3Fan wrote: anthonylizardi wrote: Look at the F16, born in 1974 still state of the art and very capable. Agreed, but it hasn't seen much competition in that time from other nations.

Agree, there is no competition when you are two step ahead of them. That's why we spend a lot in R&D. The Eurofigther would have been a great competition but they were too late. That's what happen when you have a wing build in Spain and another in Italy. That's just an example. Now we have F22, a lovely beast. Expensive too, but you get what you paid, that's why we like Correct Craft.

All companies need to continuously improve - they can only live off their reputation for so long. Eventually the competition(if doing CI) will catch up to them & surpass them.

Competition is healthy & the consumer benefits.

I think CC's plans are great & totally necessary for survival in the long haul.

Chris

Nothing to do about boats,but we've been on the sigma six method for a couple of years.Best thing ever.Normally they are begging you to take days off this time of year,but this year their begging us to work and in some cases making it mandatory.Never in my 31 yrs has this much money been available this early,being mostly 0 out makes it blood money tho.Can't wait until spring when it starts to melt.Needless to say the sigma six has been abandoned since the beginning of Feburary

Riley, there not increasing productivity, they are taking advantage of supply and demand, a Base boat starts around 40k, and go all the way up to 100k, in my eyes there are no new revalations out there, 20 years ago the ski boats were designed to pull skiers and that hasnt changed, they are still designed to pull skiers. all they simply are doing is turning this into a rich mans sport or a rich kids sport so the average avid skier like you and i cant afford to drop 60k on a boat, we could but we would need a heavy 2nd on the house, i think its called capitalizing, they are making more boats nowadays and believe me, they are getting top dollar and top profit, WHY? because they can