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	*The Remington Group Flow Mfg.* Services *Manufacturing In The New Millennium* The Remington Group, LLC 475 Wall Street Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (609) 497-6400

Last update:

08/21/2001

MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATION

From layout of the floor to assignment of the labor force to cellular work centers, the organization of manufacturing work is undergoing change.

Change largely occasioned by shifts in marketplace expectations for:

Quality
On Time Delivery
Shorter Lead Times

Factory layouts, once exclusively organized in functional work centers producing large quantities of lower level parts for sub-assembly inventory, are now giving way to product (or product group) work cells in which the entire product is fabricated and assembled with little or no subassembly inventory. Such cells, staffed by members of a team who are empowered to self inspect their work, adhere to a schedule and meet productivity metrics, are producing greater quantities of goods in smaller lots with less inventory and higher quality.

In developing new manufacturing organizations, we assist clients in:

Plant layout for greater throughput and productivity;
Development of product oriented work cell organization;
Establishment of cross functional work teams in both cellular and traditional organizations;
Project management for plant relocation and re-layouts; and
Plant site selection.

Factory re-organization need not be a capital-intensive process. We treat such opportunities as the means to obtain a capital improvement without a capital expenditure.

The Remington Group, LLC 475 Wall Street Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (609) 497-6400