One scheduling review saved more than 100 days on a chip validation program.

And later new-product projects finished on time and early.

The situation

Chip validation across hundreds of engineers and several sites, with scarce silicon samples, a nine-month silicon delay, and schedule issues that kept surprising the team.

What changed

One integrated schedule across functions, updated weekly, with the scarce silicon samples scheduled like people, so the plan showed what was really holding up each milestone.

The result

• Seeing the real impact of dependencies enabled early changes that took testing processes off the critical path and saved over 5 months.
• Admin time for engineers reduced by 450 hours.
• Later projects validated significant further time savings.