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Whether your company is looking to incorporate new processing equipment, expand facilities or integrate a data collection system into your existing, expanded, or planned facility, IMEC can help you realize the maximum benefit from your efforts.
Proper Facilities Layout includes optimally locating equipment, materials, people, infrastructure and data collection points to minimize movement, handling and travel distance of the material and labor while increasing overall productivity.
IMEC’s Facilities Layout Approach
Develop and/or verify a baseline drawing
IMEC and a team of your employees will develop and/or verify a baseline drawing of your existing facility, to include, if applicable:
Production
Production area drawing will show production equipment, personnel, locations and routing of primary utilities (electrical, pneumatic, vacuum, coolant, data, etc.), lighting, cranes, column locations, transportation aisles, material storage areas, docks, doors
Warehouse/shipping
Warehouse/shipping will show racks, columns, aisles, electrical, material handling equipment, computer workstations, data collection points, printers, inventory location and quantities
Office
Data infrastructure, electrical, personnel locations, solid and partition walls, common equipment (copiers, printers, etc.),
Facilitate employee input meetings
IMEC will facilitate meetings with your company’s management team and targeted floor personnel, to gain input and identify the facilities layout requirements with regard to:
• Product/process flow
• Facility / infrastructure
• Data transfer
• Equipment
• Inventory levels and management
Develop, design and present potential new layout(s)
IMEC and your team of key employees will work to improve the process flow and efficiency based upon underlying principles of lean manufacturing and process flow efficiency. Efforts will focus on dock locations, equipment configurations, inventory management and handling practices, and expansion. The team will develop facilities layout options, showing the current operation best arranged within the facility, and offer recommendations to accommodate future growth.
Summary
At the conclusion of our efforts, you will receive a baseline drawing and two to four alternative layout options with process flow documentation, including all documentation and drawings in both electronic and paper form. IMEC’s thorough approach to Facilities Layout will help you realize your objectives of more efficient utilization of people, resources and information leading to increased productivity and decreased costs.
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