Save Money with New Production Advice Book
“Vision Lean” offers guidance on lean manufacturing and explains how modular carts, trolleys and workstations created using the Lean Tek system, to support continuous improvement by helping to optimise materials flow, align production with demand and streamline lineside and production handling and storage.
“This book explains in clear and simple terms how lean principles can be applied to any production process to improve performance and save money,” says Nick Tyler, Managing Director of The Tube & Bracket Company. “It takes the mystique out of something that many people wrongly assume is too complicated or inappropriate for their own business.”
Separate sections of the book explain how seven areas of waste or “muda” are at the heart of the lean manufacturing concept and suggest how they can be reduced or eliminated. Research suggests that 80 per cent of lean manufacturing is about muda elimination. For example, all too frequently stock, components and finished items are handled too often and too far when fewer, shorter movements would save time and money. Improving the design of handling, storage and workstation equipment and processes can help address all seven areas of waste.
The book has been produced by the manufacturers of the Lean Tek system which comprises coated steel piping, joints and fixtures that can be assembled into a variety of solutions including live storage, carts, trolleys and ergonomic workstations. Lean Tek assemblies can be modified or reconfigured quickly and easily to support small modifications to a process or activity whenever required to deliver significant and sustainable performance improvement over time.
Copies of the book are available free of charge from The Tube and Bracket Company on 01295 277791, booklet@tubeandbracket.com or www.tubeandbracket.com
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