Flow-orientated production line design


Branche

Manufacturing

Company size

about 4,100 employees

Project duration

12 months

Dimension

9,100 m² net floor area

Result

New factory in Germany

Baden-Württemberg

Customer

The customer produces fans, motors and control devices worldwide. In the field of drive technology, it is one of the leading manufacturers of drives for elevator systems.

Services

Structure planning for the new factory for the drive department in Germany:

  • Planning of a cyclical material supply concept and definition of bus stops for the tugger train
  • Dimensioning of buffers and supermarketes along the value stream
  • Definition of intervention limits in the product mix
  • Lean-basics training for the understanding basical lean thinking (Pull; flow; takt; levelling)
  • Lighthouse project SMED and 5S as the first initial spark for the continuous improvement process