Benchmarks & Client Cases

New Plant Design

The Challenge

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Problem


• Large investment in a New Plant (9M£ Capex)

• Very long Payback period (7 years)

• Investment on-hold



Root Causes


• New Plant Design very Expensive

• Traditional Supply Chain Design Principles

• Too much waste designed in

The Solution

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• Value Stream Design: Develop the entire value chain, aligned with the vision of the plant and Lean Principles

• Plant Layout Design: Reduction of waste in logistics, processes and communication circuit

• 8 layouts developed and evaluated against previously identified muda

• Direct Link between process and packaging

The Results

The optimal layout resulted in a reduction of project CAPEX of 12% (£7.9 million) and a payback period of 3,5 years.



lead-time-reduction

Lead Time from purchase order to customer delivery

Delivery Lead Time decreased by 10% corresponding to less 2 days 

capacity increase

Plant Capacity

Plant capacity increased by 25%  

distance-travelled-benefits

Total distance travelled

Total distance travelled decrease by 20%



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