Manufacture more, for less.

Manufacturers around the world are facing many challenges and opportunities to remain competitive. Manufacturers’ prices are now set in global markets – and are determined by global supply and demand. For most manufacturing sectors today, intense competition and excess capacity are driving prices down, but the cost of raw materials is rising in line with worldwide industrial growth.

It has never been more important for companies to take a closer look at each step of their manufacturing process and implement best practices throughout their organization. We can help you do this.

Chasing the bottom line

With prices falling across industrial markets and business costs on the rise, manufacturers around the world are having to restructure their businesses, market strategies, production and supply systems in order just to remain profitable, let alone grow. Innovation is driven by bottom-line pressures. Most companies need to use methodologies such as Lean Manufacturing to reduce waste and Six Sigma to increase quality, in order to improve manufacturing productivity.

By implementing these programs, and other manufacturing process improvement techniques, companies bring products to market more quickly, ensure customer satisfaction and maintain their market share. Improving manufacturing productivity involves measuring and analyzing data and making effective decisions based on real data. Ensuring the success of these operational excellence initiatives often depends on divisions working together to share data and interpret production data appropriately.

Productivity measurement and labour standards

Understand Value Added versus Non Value Added time

Work activities that do not add value to your product or service are considered Non Value Adding activities (NVA). Continually monitoring how time is spent is the best way to determine where the highest rate of NVAs are within your Manufacturing process. Implementing professional work measurement tools is the first step to maximizing productivity by understanding and eliminating NVA time.

Time Study Software

Map and plan efficient manufacturing plant layouts

Any time that is spent in transit is essentially wasted time. Having a plant floor plan that decreases travel time and unnecessary movement is crucial to maximizing productivity. There are a lot of layout and design programs to assist with floor plans, but first, you need to know in real-time where delays occur and how the new layout will improve production. How do you do this?

Workspace Mapping

Modernize and Optimize Quality Control and Development

Setup sustainable 6S protocols and audits

Do you continually monitor if each of your workspaces meet 6S standards to Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain & Safety? Scheduling and managing regular 6S audits can be difficult, Laubrass can get you set up to automate the entire process to ensure standards are being met.

6S Audit Software

Automate quality audits and routine inspections

Take any of your current routine inspections or Quality control audits and do them on a tablet. Quickly identify non-conformance within your manufacturing process and send corrective action notifications. Audits are easier to do and results are more readily available.

Custom Audit Software

Get help developing new products

Manufacturing new products for the market can be time-consuming and costly to get the right formula. Take advantage of Laubrass expertise and their software powered by QuantisWeb to more quickly and efficiently develop and manufacture your new products.

Manufacture New Products

Process Optimization Tools for Manufacturing Industry

Control each step of your process

Define, manage, initiate and track every step in your workflow from raw goods to manufacturing to point of sale. Use modern technology to better track tasks and overtime optimize the complete cycle.

Workflow Management

Consulting and services for manufacturing

An outside perspective can always bring new light to any situation. See how Laubrass consultants can help you implement strategies and solutions for continuous improvement in your manufacturing facility.

Manufacturing consultants

Get your team on board

Process optimization can't happen if your whole team is not invested. Get your team on the right track by showing them the impact of visual work stations, LEAN, TPM and Toyota Kata management approach.

Lean Training Kit