Industries · Fabrication & engineering
Fabrication and engineering workshops
Job shops live and die on throughput and quoting accuracy. We help you get more through the workshop and know exactly what each job costs.
Common problems
- Jobs queue at the same machine or welder every week.
- Quotes are based on gut feel, and some jobs quietly lose money.
- Materials and cut lists aren’t ready when the job starts.
- A big tender needs a production plan and costing you don’t have time to build.
How we help
We time the work, design production systems and tooling, model labour and set-up costs, and lay out the workshop for flow. For Milne Construction & Fabrication, that meant designing a production system that took output from 2 to 10 truss sets a day, and the costing behind a major tender.
Services that help most
Start here
Factory review →
A few days on your floor, timing every step. You get a costed list of improvements, including where the business depends on you.
Front line
Cycle time & bottlenecks →
Find the steps that set your output, remove the waste in them, and balance the line so output grows without new staff or machines.
Front line
Factory layout design →
Layouts for growth, relocation or new machines, designed around how work flows, with the fit-out managed if you need it.
Front line
Lean manufacturing →
Hands-on lean implementation led by a Master Black Belt: waste removal, 5S, standard work and root cause problem solving.
Find out what's keeping you on the floor
A free 30-minute call is the first step. We'll talk through your operation and whether a factory review makes sense.