One of the most important principles of Lean Manufacturing is to eliminate waste. In this episode of Manufacturing in America, we take a look at how we eliminated some wasted space by renovating an older building.

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One of the most important principles of Lean Manufacturing is to eliminate waste. Waste can be found everywhere, and it can really impact your bottom line. For years, one of our buildings has been sitting empty. So today, we’re showing you how we eliminated that wasted space.
So the 6300 building was the original building for Fabricated Metals. Up to about five years ago, Fabricated Metals still operated out of the 6300 building. When we vacated the building, we were looking for a tenant. We were looking to have somebody move in to occupy the building. It’s an older facility, built in the ‘50s and when you walk in you thought, well, it needed updating.

The clients today want LED lights so that’s where we started. We focused on, okay number one: we put in new lights. When you put in new lights, then you’re like, “Oh, the walls are dark.” You need to paint the walls. That’ll help all the LED lights. This shows the floor. Okay, now the floor’s got some things in it. We put a new floor in. And then when you walk outside the building, you’re thinking okay, if people are coming to work, you want something that looks good. So we started renovating. We put new walls on the outside, threw a paint job on it, new windows for efficiency purposes. Just updated it, brought it up to a current standard.

We put a new loading dock roof on, new siding on the front of the building, painted the side of the building. We put new windows in the office, new carpets in the office, painted the office, new kitchen countertop in there to be used. We’ve brought it up to a level that we felt like a new client would be able to come in there and start manufacturing or storing their product. We put a new look on the building. We made it look nice, made it more appealing. The way our cabinets are, when you’ve got things laying all over tables or you’ve got it all on skids or you’ve got it sitting around here. By buying a Strong Hold cabinet, you can take all that, put it in a cabinet, close the door, and now it looks a more appealing place to come to work.

At the end of the day, we saw an opportunity to give value to a wasted space. We put our heads together to figure out how we could make that happen. This is yet another example of how Strong Hold comes up with creative solutions for our everyday obstacles. How can you start eliminating waste today?

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