Don’t you just love rework? Of course, you don’t! Aside from the obvious lost time and money, the negative impact on both team morale and the environment is also a consideration. So be sure to protect parts to avoid damage and meet the high-quality expectations that customers demand of you.
The challenge is not to overburden your process with excessive packaging to protect parts. Excessive packaging just requires additional time, space, and labor to unpack and discard. Adding complexity and costs to your operations. This needs to be avoided at the production line where both floor space and skilled labor can be the costliest. Carts that transport and store material and WIP securely without packaging can also store a higher density of parts into the same footprint. Less is more. Best practice lean manufacturing principles requires less of everything. Less transportation, less time spent waiting, less defects, less processing, and less movement are some of the key areas for improvement. Areas that contribute immediate and significant improvement to your profitability.
You will achieve all these lean objectives with Rhino Tool House’s custom engineered protective carts. Our experienced designers will take your part data and determine the best solution to transport and store your part according to your needs. From when material is received from your vendor, through to the finished good ready for transport to your customer. Our team are capable of handling complex layouts, variation in part delivery, sequencing of parts, and sensitive material (i.e., ESD protection, Class-A handling etc.). With experience across all sectors including OEM automotive, tier suppliers, appliance manufacturing, aerospace and defense, and general manufacturing.
Designers will also take great care to apply best-practice ergonomic guidelines for part loading, unloading, and presentation. Ensuring that your employees are not injured or over-burdened. Ensuring that their tasks are handled within all the safety and quality standards needed. Protecting your most important resource – your people!
Better part density = optimized material delivery for less movement to deliver required materials.
‘A-Class’ Part Protection = less defects, saving material costs and additional production time.
Eliminating part packaging = a more efficient process that saves money, time, and floor space.
Improved ergonomics = a safer working environment for your team
Rhino Tool House can help. We provide custom-designed parts protection carts (and racking) to ensure that your product arrives to your customer exactly as specified. Avoiding rework and waste.