Identify Options with Regard to Potential Increase in Future Demand

Through working with SMAS, VV has been working with SMEs to help improve manufacturing output and reduce waste.

Qascopak is a successful company providing assembly, packing and warehousing services to manufacturing organisations and distributors, predominately within the drinks industry. Services operate over several geographically located sites and through the utilisation of a flexible workforce meet variability in low volume customer demand.

VV delivered Lean awareness training to Directors and senior management. A VSM exercise with the Directors preceded a series of interventions focused on the optimisation of assembly processes and flow, decrease in change over times to cope with variability and operator based preventive maintenance activities.

A 130% increase in productivity was demonstrated in the new flow and layout of machinery and floor space needed to run the process was reduced by circa 30%.