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HMT Hindustan Machine Tools

Lean Manufacturing

We support Lean Manufacturing initiatives focused on identifying and reducing avoidable waste within manufacturing processes and plant layouts.

Our approach can address production flow, material movement, machine layout, workstation arrangement, unnecessary handling, space utilization, process bottlenecks, line balancing, work-in-process movement, production area organization and layout optimization. For Brownfield facilities, these improvements can be combined with machine relocation, line reconfiguration and plant expansion to create a more efficient production flow.

By examining how machines, workstations, materials and production areas are arranged within the existing facility, Lean Manufacturing initiatives can be connected with practical plant-layout changes and equipment movement requirements.

This provides a structured approach to improving the relationship between production flow, material movement and available manufacturing space.

Diagram of the eight wastes of lean manufacturing