Building Better Businesses

ILS has applied lean principles, practices, tools, and techniques in hundreds of businesses. We have assembled a few case studies here to explain what we did for some and how we did it. Feel free to contact us if you'd like more information about how we work.

• Industry: Aluminum Casting

  Comprehensive intervention focusing on inventory reduction, improvement of casting and X-ray operations, automation of all casters, elimination of the need for temporary labour, and several LIFT events to improve material handling and process flow.

  • Project timeline: 12 weeks
  • Project cost: $241,815
  • Project annualized savings: $2,620,000
  • Return on Investment: 10.8

  

  Current State – Value Stream Map

  

  Future State – Value Stream Map