From the Floor of Sharonville Transmission Plant | The 3D Printing Expert | Ford
I just love solving problems and following it all the way through to the end. You ready to play? >> Let’s do this. Let’s go ahead and get this out. We need to get water in that and we can pick out our molds. Pick out which one of those you want. This is called crafting with na na. My name is Jana Messer. I run the additive manufacturing lab here at the Sharonville plant and we make transmissions here. I love the fact that I am able to have a problem given to me and with my team we are able to solve this problem and hand them a solution back out on the floor. We had a problem that was occurring every single day and it was occurring across multiple lines. If it wasn’t a stocked item in stores, you’re looking at 4 to 12 weeks to get that in. That’s when we thought about trying to come up with alternative ways to make the parts ourselves in house. We bought a 3D printer for $24.99.99. So, these are the pucks. They go on the conveyor and the gear sits right on top of them and it goes around the line. By our third iteration, we had nailed it. We put the part on the line. How did your parts come along for the Kc Cap? >> We saved $100,000 by replicating that one part across nine different lines. And I said, “Total investment 5 grand.” And he was like, “Really?” And then this past year, we saved $3.3 million for the company. >> So I heard that you’re an additive 3D printing god. Uh tell me what you did. We came down here initially for a million-doll quality problem. What we found out is when the gantry would come down and place the parts on here, it was nicking the gears. >> I see. >> So, we went in and we printed them. >> Which doesn’t nick the gears, >> which doesn’t nick the gears. If you bought it from the manufacturer, it was $64. We make this for 20 bucks. >> There’s no scrap to go from this to that, >> right? No scrap whatsoever. >> What brings you satisfaction in your work? >> Every single day we come in, we have a new problem that faces us. And with 3D printing, we can solve it quickly. >> Are you satisfied with your idea being used in other transmission operations around Ford? >> Absolutely. We’re going to do five more plants this year. I want to go across the world and I want us to all have like and similar machines to where we can share without shipping. What’s cool about up here is this is what we’ve grown into. It would take you six days to make 42 of these. Now we do 400 overnight. I am so ecstatic about what Ford’s enabled me to do. Ready? Let’s go. The morale of people not having to deal with that problem every day and seeing people happy. That’s that’s one of my things. I just love it. No matter what I’m doing at work and here, I’m seeing this from beginning to end. >> Did you get it? Awesome. Good deal. >> That’s what it turns out like.
We’re constantly inspired by the ingenuity across our Ford manufacturing teams. At Sharonville Transmission Plant, Jonne Messer’s problem solving and passion for 3D printing has led to dramatically reduced costs across several plants, without ever sacrificing quality. Thank you, Jonne and team, for your hard work and commitment to excellence!
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