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Manufacturing

Manufacturing case interviews cover operational efficiency, supply chain optimization, Industry 4.0, and cost reduction strategies. These cases test your ability to analyze production processes, capacity planning, and lean manufacturing principles.

Total Cases: 14
Companies: 3
Easy 1 Medium 9 Hard 4
Hard

Apache Helicopter

Investment Decision Profitability Industrial Goods

Our client is a US defense contractor. One of its divisions manufactures Apache helicopters for military operations. The company is considering …

15 min
Chicago Booth
50
Bain
Hard

Midwest Machinery Co.

Sourcing/Outsourcing Industrial Goods

The MM team has proposed moving the manufacturing process for the XL292 machine, a critical machine for many of their end products, to India. These …

15 min
Chicago Booth
50
BCG
Hard

Skylight Goods

Profitability Operations Industrial Goods

Our client, Skylight Goods, is a $12B industrial goods manufacturer. They have various divisions and the division they are working with makes pressure …

15 min
Chicago Booth
50
BCG
Medium

Steel Co.

Cost Saving Operations Industrial Goods

Our client is a steel manufacturing company in the Netherlands. They are considering investing in an advanced analytics tool that will help them …

15 min
NYU
50
Medium

Auto Emissions

Profitability Market Entry Industrials

Your client is an industrial goods producer who primarily focuses efforts on planes, trains, and various automobile parts. Their R&D team recently …

15 min
Cornell
50
BCG
Medium

Steel Co.

Cost Saving Industrial Goods

Our client is a steel manufacturing company in the Netherlands. They are considering investing in an advanced analytics tool that will help them …

15 min
NYU
50
Medium

Fertilizer Innovation

Pricing Strategy Product Launch Industrial Goods

Your client is an agricultural products manufacturer. They invented a product called "Green Nutrient". This product will help farmers by allowing a …

15 min
ROSS
50
Easy

Grow baby, grow!

Growth Profitability Industrial Goods

Your client is a diversified industrials distributor that focuses on four key product areas: plumbing tools (pipes, installation tools), lumber …

15 min
Duke
50
Medium

Hot Tiles

Market Entry Market Sizing Industrial Goods

Client Co. manufactures wooden boards (installed on walls of houses) and is thinking into the Hot Tiles product category. Hot Tiles are tiles used to …

15 min
ROSS
50
Medium

Papyr Co.

Profitability Industrial Goods

Papyr is a paper distributor based in Ohio. Due to the declining demand for paper products, the company downsized the company headcount by 20% across …

15 min
Duke
50
BCG
Medium

Steel Co.

Cost Saving Operations Industrial Goods

Our client is a steel manufacturing company in the Netherlands. They are considering investing in an advanced analytics tool that will help them …

15 min
NYU
50
Medium

Trouble in 'Packaging' Paradise

Profitability Industrial Goods

Client is Newpads, an absorbent pads manufacturing company which recently got acquired by OldMoney Investments, a private equity fund. Newpads is a …

15 min
Duke
50
Hard

Pressing Parts Problems

Operations Cost Reduction Industrial Goods

Our client is a small auto-parts manufacturer (Name: APM Co.) with roughly $350M in revenue and operations on two continents. The company has …

15 min
ROSS
50
Medium

Compress and Expand

Revenue Growth Industrial Goods

Compressor Co. is a gas compressor manufacturer that makes gas compressors for usage in refineries and steel plants. Recently, their revenues have …

15 min
Wharton
50