IMEG was hired by a leading builder of manufactured and modular homes.?The customer has multiple manufacturing plants across the United States which build homes to meet appropriate state, national, and international building standards.
- Development of a new manufacturing plant including main assembly and subassembly lines
- Insufficient manufacturing capacity
- Inefficient manufacturing process including large travel distance between processing and point-of-use locations
- Develop an improved plant layout
- Complete an analysis using MODAPTS to estimate process times
- Develop a work combination chart to help understand manning usage and requirements
- Complete floor space and travel distance analyses to improve floor space usage and reduce travel distances
- Improved layout and floor space utilization for subassembly areas reducing manufacturing area by 6.8%
- Material storage re-organization led to a 45% reduction in travel distance
- 9% increase in available space for material storage
- Verified that process could meet capacity requirements
