Manex Engagement Manager, Bill Browne implements Lean Manufacturing helping printing company, Cellotape to realize significant cost savings.

The following article appeared in FLEXO, the Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) magazine.

Cellotape and Manex

FLEXO MAGAZINE, October 2009 - To demonstrate the benefits of Lean Manufacturing to Cellotape, MANEX started the engagement with an interactive Lean simulation involving management and plant supervisors. Through this simulation, MANEX was able to demonstrate how and why Lean manufacturing works and the benefits it could bring.  Impressed by the simulation, Cellotape gave MANEX the go ahead to begin Lean implementation and education throughout the company.

MANEX engagement manager, Bill Browne, and his team started with a detailed Value Stream Map on Cellotape’s flexographic process line, this was used to both weed out inefficiencies as well as to demonstrate how value stream mapping could be used to streamline Cellotape’s other process lines – screen print and digital. While streamlining plant operations was a start, given its recent acquisition, Cellotape needed to give serious thought to where the company was headed to get the whole company working toward the same goals. MANEX sat down with Cellotape management and supervisors to help create and detail a Future State Map.

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