How a shop’s setup impacts workflow and profitability.
The hope behind an article on plant layout is that it will serve as a handy how-to guide — a simple set of instructions that eliminates chaos and introduces order. If wide-format production was about producing a hyper-focused, singular product, then plant layout would be easy: Set up the space, create standard operating procedures, and stick with it until the variables change enough to warrant action. But the wide-format segment is not a widget-making process. It is instead custom-focused work that requires any …