Plant Layout For World Class Manufacturing

To become globally competitive and to achieve world class status in a manufacturing environment, an examination must be made of how material flows to and from each work center. Many of the popular commercial systems are beyond the scope and affordability of the average small-to-medium machine shop. The system proposed is a self-teaching scheme developed from process and routing files, requiring limited input and editing from in-house operations personnel. The subsequent machine shop equipment repositioning will dramatically change the way a company does business and will yield significant reductions in lead time, quality costs, and floor space.