Successful Projects
We present to you our successful projects, demonstrating the impact we’ve made across various industries. Our case studies provide in-depth insights into the challenges we’ve tackled and the innovative solutions we’ve delivered. Explore these stories to see how we’ve helped our clients achieve remarkable results.
Project K – Deescalation
The ramp-up of serial production for door trims for a Premium OEM, which was the most important project for the group, was successfully executed. This Greenfield project had an estimated value of 50M – 100M EUR. We provided extensive support, including process establishment, de-escalation, customer communication, crisis management, logistical flow, sampling, and industrialization.
The main issues are as follows:
- The planning of project was inaccurately estimated.
- The transfer of documentation from headquarters was not completed.
- The pre-serial phase was not properly handled.
- Industrialization was not finished on time with 50% of the shopfloor workforce missing.
- The above contributors resulted in very short period to postponement of SOP at the OEM customer and difficult ramp up and a complicated relationship with the customer, leading to a high level of escalation.
- GQ reinforced the original hard-pressed team with 15 white collars (managers and engineers – industrialization, quality, project mgr, logistic, engineering, production) and 5 technicians (shop floor quality) and 20+ blue collars successfully installed within the first 2 weeks following original demand.
- Highest peak of support: 50+ direct people on support and another 100+ indirect (via partner companies).
- Management of project departments.
- The customer received strong support to overcome extremely complex problems when the issue started.
- The customer received expertise of GQ interim professionals who made good and efficient decisions in a short period of time.
- GQ interim professionals handled difficult communication with an exceptionally demanding customer.
- Management of project departments.
- GQ ran a solution on another similar project in pipeline to avoid the same problems in the pre-serial phase.
- Over the course of 1 year, GQ interim professionals managed to achieve a de-escalation level and resolve most of the problems.
- Our customer went from heavy crisis firefighting to standard operational conditions with a happy customer and a smoothly running project.
- In one year, GQ significantly helped our client out of a very deep crisis, tighten relationships with their biggest customer and to resolve seemingly unsolvable problems.
- At the same time the customer received support with an ongoing project which did not experience the same issues.
Project S -
Sampling
The customer was launching several new projects simultaneously and required interim help to manage all APQP processes and receive PPAP approvals on time.
Projects: Audi Q7, Audi Q8, Porsche Cayenne, Porsche Cayenne Coupe, Volkswagen Touareg.
1 customer submitted 5 different products at the same time which put an additional strain on ramp-up times.
A team of 5 highly skilled interim APQP engineers resolved the project to obtain Green approval from the final customer. This meant completion within 17 months as originally planned without delays or unexpected complications.
- No need to hire internal staff for limited project tasks
- Time and resource saving
- On time and reliable delivery
- High satisfaction of high-profile OEM
Very precise operation with high performance APQP interim engineers who drove the project through all milestones to the successful PPAP and handover to serial production.
Project R - Relocation of the production line
This project involves the careful transfer of critical manufacturing processes to a new location, ensuring minimal disruption while maximizing productivity and maintaining the highest quality standards.