Lean manufacturing provides a fresh perspective helping you to improve safety, streamline processes, shorten lead times and maximize productivity. A successful lean manufacturing program gives you a competitive advantage and allows you to focus on activities that add value to your organization.
Ever-Roll asked FastLane to help reduce changeover times from part to part. Each employee had their own way of doing things. They did not have a standard way to gather the tools and tooling for each part or a way to make the necessary machine adjustments required to perform the setup for each job. When changing shifts, the employees stepping in to take over a machine, would not understand where the person before them was in the process.
Forre Sports was facing a few challenges. Their lead times were growing, and they worried that it would jeopardize their client relationships and their sales. They needed to reduce their lead times by increasing throughput and productivity. They also needed to
Valco wanted to increase sales and improve performance, but they had no engineers on staff and a small team. They determined that the laser department needed the most help. Valco wanted to improve their sheet metal inventory management to increase efficiency and reduce wasted time and space, while improving machine productivity.
Lochard was experiencing an influx of jobs that
was double what they were used to handling. As a result, they began to struggle with on-time delivery, customer dissatisfaction, low team morale, increased operational costs, and a decrease in the quality of products.
My Lean Journey by Matt Hoyng Nearly 10 years ago, I was managing an extrusion and injection molding manufacturing plant, and it was struggling. We
Ever-Roll asked FastLane to help reduce changeover times from part to part. Each employee had their own way of doing things. They did not have a standard way to gather the tools and tooling for each part or a way to make the necessary machine adjustments required to perform the setup for each job.
