Plant Layout - Lean Manufacturing

Reducing manufacturing costs through improved plant layout is an effective way to improve profitability.

Lean Manufacturing Solutions Inc. offers the expertise, knowledge, and skills to work with you to radically reduce costs within your manufacturing facility.

We can help if any of these points pertain to your plant:

Machines and equipment placed wherever space was available
Additions tacked onto plants to accommodate increased business

Then...
Former manufacturing improvement efforts focused on direct labour costs only. The problem with this approach was that these costs represent only
5-15% of the total manufacturing costs.

Now...
Lean Manufacturing Solutions Inc. focuses on both direct and non-direct labour costs as well as material flow and inventory turns. This results in savings in all three key areas:

Materials
Overhead
Direct Labour

Improved Layout = Increased Profitability

"The great sense of accomplishment that the layout team members had was exceeded only by management's satisfaction that the revised layout resulted in more than double the capacity in the same space."

Phillip C. Brown, Plant Manager,
Wolverine Tube