Lean Manufacturing Consulting
Assembly Services And Packaging’s team will work with you to develop the systems you need to implement lean manufacturing principles for your manufacturing processes, increasing your capacity, efficiency, quality and turn times.
| • Lean Waste Identification |
| • Process Mapping |
| • Process Redesign |
| • Employee Training |
| • Video Production |
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Check out ASAP in action! We developed and produced this video demonstrating how reducing motion in a simple production process can translate into large cost savings.
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The Need For Process Improvement Is Real
In these challenging economic times, we have all found the need for change in our businesses. The pressure to cut costs – reducing staff levels, squeezing vendors, reducing customer service, cutting corners – can end up costing more through quality, capacity and efficiency issues if these directives are not properly managed.
The area often overlooked that can produce sizable and sustainable financial gains is the removal of waste in our manufacturing processes. In order to develop our business processes to remain competitive and viable, businesses need to ask difficult questions and implement the correct changes to transform themselves into 21st century success stories.
- Are the activities we are performing adding value to our product? Or are employees performing unnecessary tasks because of inadequate training, tradition, or inefficient work cell layout?
- Is our throughput maximized and downtime minimized, or do our materials meet bottlenecks in processing that create limits on our ability to fulfill orders?
- Can we find ways to improve quality so we do not need to spend excess time looking for and fixing defects? Are processes understood and reproducible to minimize the occurrence of defects?
- Is our supply chain optimized to reduce costs? Is the movement of our product necessary or minimized to create the best cost to value received by the customer?
- Is the equipment or tooling appropriately sized for the end product or production process? Are we spending too much to operate a machine that is underutilized or too complex? Is the product design unnecessarily complicated when a simpler design is all that is deemed necessary by the end user?
- Is it necessary to produce the product or components in large batches, which results in a large investment in inventory and labor, or can the processes be performed as needed to meet the customer’s demand for the product?
- Is there more product or materials on hand than is needed for actual customer orders, creating excess work in process, increased handling and inefficient space utilization?
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At face value, these questions sound easy to ask. The difficulty lies in identifying the answers, and more importantly, implementing change. The difficult task of finding time in your busy schedule to transform your manufacturing processes into efficient processes built on lean principles has just been simplified; contact ASAP today!
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
- Andrew Grove, Intel Corporation