After a period of production observation at first sight was obvious that there was a high level of manual intervention,
the speed of which was heavily dependent on the skill set of the operator. The overall effect was bottlenecks within the system and a subsequent reduction in output.
With operations running in two shifts in winter period of the year, the additional output could not be achieved by the inclusion of extra shifts.
Instead, attention to improving the speed of the production line and the cycle output, through implementation of some methods of lean concept is adopted.