Aristocrat is a publicly listed company producing and marketing gaming machines with sales of over $300 m. 25% of its machines are exported.

The Triton Group was retained by the Aristocrat organisation for 5 ½ years to work with Management to implement a comprehensive World Class Manufacturing program that integrated technology with people.

The first phase of the work consisted of raising awareness to best practice manufacturing and providing the workforce with improvement tools. Later stages involved more of an emphasis on employee involvement through process improvement teams and cross-functional teams.

Rewards and recognition also became part of the team based improvement process through the implementation of a gain share system.

During the period of Triton’s assignment, machine output rose from an average of 65 units per day to 120 per day without any increase in the total labour costs and considerable reductions of inventory.