Förändring av layout och produktionsflöde : Med fokus på förbättringar och struktur i produktionen

Sammanfattning: This project has been implemented as a degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design at the Faculty of Health, Science and Technology at the University of Karlstad. The project started in November 2017 and continued to May 2018. The most of the work has been performed on the company KD: Solskydd AB in Degerfors. The main task of this project was to develop a new flow-oriented factory layout, to one of the departments in the company. The work included many observations and interviews, it was a big part of the specification and preliminary study. The analysis part of the project was to investigate the possibilities to a better flow in the production and opportunities for improvement in the factory. The methods that were used in this project were establish in Lean. From the product development process strategy have a project can be formed and performed. The process has been adapted to this project. Ten separate ideas of layouts were made. Each idea fulfilled the specification different. A group of selected co-workers from the compony and some of the persons in the board of the company, got a presentation of the ten ideas. The group discussed the separate ideas from the information they have of the ideas, from that they select one of the layout ideas. To be the one! A simulation of the new layout was performed in Karlstad Lean Factory. Nine employees from the company participated in the simulation. The simulation helped the co-workers to see improvements in the production flow. In the end of the project investigated the possibilities to more improvement areas in the company, with help from Lean.