Case Study: Global Standardization, Heavy Equipment Manufacturing This Case Study describes how Gagnon Associates helped a client achieve global standardization for a key product component category, resulting in significant, overall cost savings: The Company A 700MM+ worldwide maker of large-scale mining machinery and equipment. The Problem Globally-dispersed operations from newly-integrated businesses result in a varied proliferation of key-component designs as well as disparate and sub- optimized supply-chain and production practices and processes. A long history of autonomy and sparse communication among these distributed operations compounds the integration challenge. The Approach Global Marketing and Product Management sets out to rationalize designs of best-selling, high-volum

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