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Lean Facility Design: Benefits Plenty!

posted by Admin Faber

19 May 2014

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While taking a Gemba (real workplace) Walk at India’s largest bone china manufacturer, huge scope of improvement was foreseen by the transformation project team. Having said that, it is noteworthy that the client has massive space, excellent products and some big names in the kitty to cater in the bone china market. As a part of the transformation journey towards world-class setup, the project team rolled out the Lean Facility Design (LFD) exercise.

What is Lean Facility Design (LFD)?

1. Unique toolkit (methodology) developed by Faber Infinite, which supports organizations to build Best In Class factory layout. This methodology if implemented, assures that the new plant becomes most efficient from Day Zero.2. This methodology is applicable for organizations, which are coming up with new plants, revising layouts or expanding current setup.

Why Lean Facility Design (LFD)?

– To prevent all inefficiencies from entering in to new plant– To get best in class manpower productivity– To lower the total throughput time (time taken for raw material receipt to finished goods delivery)– To achieve optimum space utilisation– To work with optimum inventory levels (ensuring no overstocking as well as zero shortages)

Team Faber Infinite initiated the 14 – Step LFD rollout with value stream identification and value stream mapping. Value stream mapping a step-by-step paper & pencil tool that helps you to see and understand the flow of material and information as a product or service makes its way through the value stream. Value stream mapping is basically a visual snapshot of the operations. It is the preferred methodology for identifying the inherent waste and losses within an operation.

The manpower productivity was one of the major benefits where production per person per month improved by 112%, other parameters like throughput times and value adding ratio showed significant improvements of almost 80%. In addition, the inventory at various stages was reduced from 90 days to as low as 15 days.

The application of LFD principles easily integrates the traditional approach to designing a Lean facility. Lean will help to set clear performance metrics at the outset of the exercise to ensure that the facility is capable of meeting the needs of the organization as it grows and evolves. Moreover, in so doing the challenges associated with culture change can be avoided. It will enable the move to make best practice as standard practice.

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We are pleased to announce that during the 8th Edition of Maintech 2018 organized by CII Baroda on 25th May 2018, team Faber Infinite Consulting is called upon as knowledge partner of this summit.
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Lean manufacturing is one of the hot topics for waste reduction and manufacturing in large quantities all around the world. It is one of the most sought out manufacturing process to reduce ingrain efficiency in the manufacturing processes and reduce wastes at the same time. It is also widely recognized as a proven method to improve labour productivity as well.
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Customer services are a vital influencer in keeping the business at the brim of profits. It is a well-known fact that customer retention is more important and effective in a business rather than customer acquisition and providing better customer services helps one in doing the same.
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Team Faber Infinite has associated with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) on several occasions.
We are pleased to announce that during the 2nd Defence Conclave organised by CII Gujarat on 11th May 2018, team Faber Infinite Consulting was called upon as knowledge partner of this summit.
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This is an article on 'Operational Excellence' recently published in the leading magazine in Zambia know as 'The Zambian Manufacturer'.
"Operational Excellence is the key to business success. It's not just a philosophy, but a concept that helps to improve business performance thus leading to organisational success"
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We congratulate our esteemed client Strongpak on achieving yet another feat. This time, it is been recognized as ‘Most Consistent Employer Award’ by Ministry of Labour, Zambia and the award was presented by Her Honor Inonge Wina, the Vice President of the Republic of Zambia during labor day celebrations in Kitwe on 2nd May 2018. This is coveted award as it appreciates Strongpak’s handling of workers matters in the areas of health & safety and staff welfare.
On behalf of team Faber Infinite , our heartiest wishes to the Strongpak team and we wish them all the success.

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In the modern competitive corporate world, creating a profound engaging and productive work environment is a challenge for many organizations. The productivity of an employee is largely dependent on his engagement at his workplace. It is very important for the leadership to keep the team members motivated in order to have a better engagement of the employees and subsequently better productivity.
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Conduct a power packed analysis exercise to leap into the next league of higher profitability and exponential growth.
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