Do you have current plans to relocate your business to a new facility within three years?
How much free space do you have available in your workplace as a percentage of the total area? "Free" space is area currently not in use or being used for items such as obsolete materials or machinery that can be easily relocated.
How much do you expect your total business throughput to grow in the next three years?
How much of your factory space is dedicated to storage of raw materials and work in progress?
How many times is your product moved by a forklift or an overhead or mobile crane in your process?
How often do forklifts or mobile plant enter a space that is used by operators?
How often do you need to move something out of the way to access product?
On average approximately how many steps does your operator need to take to get the next material for his job?
On average how many steps does an operator have to take to get the instructions and information for the next job?
How many breaks are there to the flow of production in your layout. That is, how many times does the product stop and need a production instruction or production plan before it moves to the next step?
Have you selected a building for your new operation?
Have you completed a layout plan for your new building?
Does that layout plan consider the location of equipment, work stations, finished goods, work in progress, raw materials, traffic flows, replenishment of materials and return of unused materials, people flows, shop floor meeting spaces, consumables, tooling and other inputs?
Have you completed a future state map for your process and analysed whether you have the right level of equipment, people and inventory and considered how the flow of materials and products will be controlled in your process?
Have you taken concrete steps other than capital investment to ensure that your new factory will more efficient than your old factory and use space more efficiently?
Have you analysed your end to end process to ensure that any investments in new equipment or automation associated with the new site will deliver benefits to the whole value stream, not just to the process being automated?
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