The new modern built plant has recently set-up on a
green-field site, and employs around 150 people. The manufacturing
layout comprises of three distinct cells which are
gradually becoming more customer-focused. The `JIT' philosophy
and the overall shop-floor layout and it's facilities
which incorporates a kanban system, helps ensure that
production scheduling is customer-based, as opposed to
capacity-based.
The production operation includes: forming shop, toolroom
and a fully equipped product test-room. There are
three assembly cells: semi-automated, manually-operated
and flexible cell.
An integrated computer system is used to control and
monitor production planning and scheduling which provides
accurate and `real-time' processing of information to control
production progress which is linked to an electronic data
interchange (EDI) system for scheduling and customer order
processing.