September 2010. Lancastle improves factory layout to improve work flow
The management team has recently benefitted from a days hands on help from the Management Advisory Service (aka The Manufacturing Institute). Stuart Mitten from MAS assisted us to analyse work flows for our higher volume products and improve factory layout.
As a result of this exercise we have moved most of the machines to differing postions, created a new packing area and rebuilt our raw material storage areas.
The revised layout is already working well and has cut down handling time between processes.