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A single facility is rarely proficient in more than a few
Key Manufacturing Tasks. A facility
that is ill-designed, attempts too much or is optimized for the wrong task can be a millstone.
Facility planning can help address this strategic issue using the "plant-within-plant"
concept.
Here, the plant layout has regions that become, essentially, standalone factories. Each has
(at least substantially) its own area and infrastructure such as maintenance, purchasing and
engineering.
The figure illustrates this with an example from one of our clients. Two major product lines
had conflicting demands from customers and conflicting demands on the factory's infrastructure.
In addition, one of the product lines had highly dissimilar processes. The factory was split
into three Focused Factories, as shown.
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The Strategos Guide To Value Stream and Process Mapping goes far beyond symbols and arrows. In over 163 pages it tells the reader not only how to do it but what to do with it.
