Improving Efficiency for a Specialty Bed Manufacturer

By definition, medical beds must be rugged and durable with highly reliable moving parts. A North American-based company tasked 889 Global Solutions with producing one of their most complex assembly pieces: the step that locks and unlocks the wheelbase.

Working closely with the client and our team in China, we engineered a casted part that accomplished the necessary goals in one piece instead of two, streamlining production and eliminating the need for welding. This modification saved our client 12%.

But we weren’t done yet. We also divided their shipments. Now they benefit from the cost savings of a single production cycle, and yet their parts arrive quarterly for just-in-time inventory and storage.