Case Studies
Efficiencies in Plant Design
Efficiencies in Plant Design
Challenge:
When window fabricators begin manufacturing a new product line, it can cost a significant amount of money to integrate the assembly line for efficient production. Fabricators need to increase capacities and efficiencies in their existing manufacturing facility to increase profitability and quality.
Solution:
Chelsea Building Products’ Technical Service team studies the current manufacturing operation and then provides a blueprint of the systematic and functional arrangement of the various machines and equipment found throughout their entire window manufacturing plant. This provides a more efficient streamlined assembly line while reducing the cost of labor. The new customized plant layout is created to use all available resources in an organized multi-tiered manner to get the optimum efficiency and productivity out of the manufacturing facility.
- Increase labor efficiency
- Decrease labor costs
- Most efficient use of the available manufacturing floor footprint
- Continuous flow manufacturing, reducing WIP (work-in progress)
