Optical Fiber Division Carves Out Competitive Advantage: Project Management Becomes Key Differentiator

One of the early entrants into the optical fiber market needed to expand its newly acquired facilities through construction and increased capacity so it could produce a greater quantity of higher-margin cutting-edge product in its newest facility. Problems in up-front planning led to a risk of a 3-to-4 month delay. Robbins-Gioia assessed the needs of the project and focused on planning and processes.

Result: Robbins-Gioia helped this enormous and highly complex project (involving 15 months, $80 million, 6 teams, multiple suppliers and vendors, and more than 6,000 documents) bring its variances down to plus or minus one week and less than $100,000. .

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