WHAT IS SMART FACTORY®?
Smart Factory® is a methodology to create manufacturing businesses that utilise lean principles and the latest technologies to maximise efficiencies and provide the greatest opportunity for success.
It is a holistic approach to the design and development of process-driven plants to deliver facilities that are efficient, responsive and sustainable.
WHY INVEST IN A SMART FACTORY®?
The opportunity to build or modify a manufacturing facility does not come along every day. Few companies have staff on board that have the expertise and experience needed to design an advanced manufacturing facility that dovetails into their operations and maximises revenue and profit.
This means that many factories are built without enough consideration to the production processes that make the money. The significant capital, lead time and variable costs savings that are available in a well planned factory are lost.
Advanced Focus has planned manufacturing facilities and has found in every case that the investment made in the planning stage results in savings at implementation. When lean processes and their associated productivity benefits are built in from day one, your investment is not only returned, it continues to deliver returns in subsequent years.
SMART FACTORY® - THE VALUE PROPOSITION
Capital - Smart Factory® uses lean layout techniques to reduce the land and building sizes required for a given output.
Contingency - The Smart Factory® approach can reduce the number of late changes that occur during the fit-out phase, and their associated negative impact on timing and
contingency.
Launch – The Smart Factory® planning approach reduces risks through expert planning of your new production launch.
Cost of production - Smart Factory® provides ongoing productivity and efficiency improvements that are cost free benefits from the start, locking in improvements and enabling cultural change.
