Advanced technology meets operational efficiency
Pictures #1, 3 & 4 courtesy of LaserBond
Reducing the wear rates, maintenance and operating costs of production-vital components for its industrial customers is LaserBond’s mission. Then success and their plans to grow called for some operational changes.
During a site visit hosted by Matthew Twist and Wayne Hooper, members of the Performance Drivers Consortium found the combination of LaserBond’s use of advanced technologies and Lean practices offered them many new ideas.
LaserBond’s Smeaton Grange facility is a manufacturing and an R & D facility. Research, development and implementation of advanced surface-engineering techniques drives LaserBond’s ability to deliver great products. However, to improve the growth of the business they embarked on a Lean transformation in 2014 with assistance from Performance Drivers.
Realising that increasing staffing and providing more space was not automatically creating greater efficiency or maximising growth. Guidance and facilitation from Performance Drivers saw them challenge their thinking, identify what needed to change, and implement a proven methodology to deliver workable, practical, and sustainable solutions.
