Case Study: KONE cuts production time by 75% with Visual Knowledge Share Ltd (VKS)

Kone Cuts Their Production Time by up to 75%

KONE, a world-leading manufacturer of elevators and escalators, faced two major challenges at its Coal Valley facility: paper-based work instructions that were hard to update and a retiring workforce that risked taking valuable knowledge with it. To address these issues, KONE turned to Visual Knowledge Share Ltd (VKS) and its digital work instruction software.

With Visual Knowledge Share Ltd’s VKS platform, KONE digitized and centralized work instructions, captured tribal knowledge, improved training, and streamlined material flow and quality tracking. The results included up to a 75% reduction in production time for its heavy-duty unit, a 10–15% drop in cycle times for many processes, and a training orientation process cut to one-quarter of its former length.

KONE

Adrian Riojas

Manufacturing Engineer