Operational excellence

How we define operational excellence

Lean value chains – waste elimination, supply chain structure

Factory - clean, modern, low maintenance, safe environment

Focussed investment – Enterprise resource planning, site restructuring

People, leadership & culture – team and self directed working, leadership development, modern working practices

How we work to achieve this

Leverage group procurement opportunities

Lean manufacturing improvement techniques including 5S workplace organisation, quick changeover and total productive maintenance

Factory – simple layouts based on work flow

Investment in modern production equipment; gravimetric feeders, silos and automatic feeding, robots

Team based working and a ‘can-do’ attitude

Shared knowledge and best practices, operator exchanges, multi-skilling of workforce, training programme

IT support tools – electronic knowledge and quality system, product data management, electronic manuals, service data management, fully integrated
     ‘real time’ ERP.