Project
Electronics
Year
2025
Clean-room assembly floor
Layout and flow redesign of a clean-room assembly floor during expansion.
Headline result
−31%
Material travel distance
Travel / unit
420 m
290 m
−31%
Lead time
6.5 d
4.2 d
−35%
Sector
Electronics
Location
Drummondville, QC
Year
2025
The challenge
An electronics assembler was expanding into a second clean-room hall. The original layout had grown one machine at a time, and each board travelled 420 metres between process steps.
What we did
We mapped the full value stream with the production team, then designed the new hall around the product’s path instead of machine types.
Kitting moved next to the line, and test stations moved beside final assembly.
The result
Travel per unit fell to 290 metres and lead time from 6.5 to 4.2 days, while the plant added capacity in the new hall.
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