Case Study

TK Elevator Sees 97% Issue Closure Rate with Quality Management System AI Advisor

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The Challenge

TK Elevator, a global leader in mobility solutions, was facing significant inefficiencies in its quality management processes. With over 1,000 sales and service locations worldwide, managing quality concerns effectively across all teams was a daunting task.

Previously, TK Elevator’s quality issues were handled manually, resulting in long cycle times and high costs due to errors and inefficiencies. Field workers often had to report issues from memory after returning from site visits. This led to delays in addressing problems, often taking an average of 120 days to resolve, with a closure rate below 50%. As a result, the company was struggling with costly errors and missed opportunities for improvement.

Key challenges included:

Long cycle times for resolving quality issues.

Manual processes prone to human error.

High costs due to delayed or unresolved quality issues.

Difficulty in tracking and escalating concerns in real-time.

The Solution

To tackle these challenges, TK Elevator partnered with Benchmark Gensuite to implement the Quality AI Advisor—a powerful digital tool designed to automate and streamline the quality management process.

The Quality AI Advisor enabled TK Elevator to:

Automate the tagging and escalation of quality concerns, significantly reducing manual work.

Provide field teams with a mobile-friendly solution to capture incidents in real-time, within 90 seconds.

Offer program managers full visibility into quality issues, allowing them to address concerns earlier and more efficiently.

Use AI to analyze trends and identify potential issues before they escalated, driving proactive improvements.

With the automation provided by Quality AI Advisor, TK Elevator moved away from inefficient spreadsheets and time-consuming committee reviews, empowering their teams to take immediate action in the field.

The Result

The results of implementing Benchmark’s Quality AI Advisor were dramatic. TK Elevator achieved:

97% issue closure rate, up from less than 50%.

20-day average cycle time for resolving quality issues, down from 120 days.

$1.1 million reduction in Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).

$20.2 million in savings from an engineering design change initiated by identifying an issue early in the field.

TK Elevator’s Head of Quality for North America, Michael Melnyk, noted that these improvements were not just about efficiency but also resulted in significant cost savings. “If you address these issues in a timely fashion, there is a real, tangible dollar savings associated with it,” he said.

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