Lean manufacturing: product ideas for this market

Workstations as tools of production are important elements of a lean manufacturing system. Lean manufacturing focuses on the elimination of waste, which can typically be categorized as overproduction of product, excessive waiting or delay times, excessive transportation of product or materials during the assembly process, or wasted motion at the workstation.

Properly designed and configured workstations, such as the Arlink® 8000 workstation system, can make significant impact on reducing waste in all these areas. Lista is happy to provide free consulting services, application specific solutions, and graphical simulations of proposed solutions for customers pursuing lean manufacturing to insure that the workstations contribute to the overall goals of the manufacturing enterprise.

The following nine principles are generally accepted to be representative core elements of all lean manufacturing programs. Download our free white paper on workstations and lean manufacturing for a detailed explanation of how our products uniquely support each of these nine key principles:

1. Lean equipment
2. Elimination of waste
3. Flexibility
4. Visual factories
5. Error proofing
6. Local supermarkets/point of use storage
7. Set up reduction/quick changeover
8. Organization
9. Just in time production

Lista products are well-suited to a variety of tasks in a lean manufacturing environment.

• Arlink® 8000 workstations
• Align® adjustable height workstations