Rearranging a Factory/Making the Pieces Fit
Our holiday presents arrived early at Stanford Manufacturing! Our new 1200T and 600T machines were delivered and ready to be moved in during mid-December. We are thrilled to receive these machines as they will allow us to expand our capabilities and work capacity. We now have the bandwidth to create more products for our customers, create new jobs, and ramp up our innovative process.
Before our new machines arrived, our engineering team spent weeks preparing by planning a new layout for our factory. There were a lot of moving parts that had to be accounted for, especially for the 1200T machine which required a concrete slab with reinforced steel rebar to be poured to support its weight. You can’t pour a concrete slab more than once, so everything had to be down to an exact science.
Once the new layout was designed, the moving began. Equipment was rearranged around the factory to make room for our new machines, and the arrangement had to be done in a way that upheld safety codes. We need to have enough space between each machine to allow our machine operators to comfortably and safely do their job. This includes space for machine maintenance, offloading parts and scrap materials, and more.
Moving the machines required a great deal of manpower. We had a wonderful team who helped do the heavy lifting, and yes, some of the moving was done by hand!
Once we had fitted each existing machine into its new home, the concrete slab was poured for the 1200T machine. Then, we entered the waiting phase.
On the day of the new machine’s arrivals, the machine manufacturers arrived to help move them in and make sure they were perfectly functional for us. We played a real-life jigsaw puzzle to make our factory space as cohesive as possible, and it was well worth the effort. The whole process, from reorganizing our factory to seeing parts produced in our new machines, took six months. We’re happy to say that increased production has begun at Stanford Manufacturing thanks to our two new machines!
