Before Duerr Inc. laid out its new building, it had a wish list built over years to start the planning. The company’s best single investment? The central material handling system. Husky’s Factory ...

Digital transformation is being used to help with a wide range of industrial needs. Take factory design and optimization. Tools such as CAD can be used to create things as large and physical as ...

Every manufacturer knows the cost of getting factory design wrong: a layout that creates material handling waste for the next decade, or a robot cell that fails commissioning three weeks before launch ...

Process plant layout involves systematic planning of equipment, pathways, storage and control systems within an industrial site to maximise operational efficiency and ensure robust safety measures.

With the information developed in Chapters 1 and 2, your next step is to utilize three time-tested tools to assess the efficiency of your existing layout and test proposed improvements. See Chapter 2 ...

We quite often get calls, or find ourselves in a conversation where somebody is inevitably asking, “What’s the leanest way to lay out my factory”? This is always a delicate subject because it is ...