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We use Lean Manufacturing to make our processes highly efficient. This means identifying and eliminating waste at every stage, reducing the natural resources consumed and only producing what is needed. At the same time, we focus on continuously improving quality and safety.
The system helps improve our inventory accuracy and reduce our throughput time to provide faster delivery to our customers. As a result, we reduce our costs - and pass on these savings to our customers.
The APC/WSP Manufacturing Plant is located near Al-Khobar and Dammam cities in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. It consists of 9,803 square meters of covered manufacturing space and 4,475 square meters of yard and warehouse space.
The Manufacturing Plant is ISO 9000-2000 certified and is fully equipped to engineer, manufacture, inspect, and test APC/WSP’s complete range of Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESPs).
To provide for excellence in manufacturing, efficiency, and quality control, the production system utilized in the WSP Plant is patterned after the “Toyota Production System” which more recently has been referred to as “Lean Manufacturing”. Lean Manufacturing is a unified Philosophy/System for improving productivity and product quality. Lean Manufacturing is designed to be cleaner, safer, better organized and to provide for higher morale and productivity.
Under the Lean Manufacturing System, the product flow through the Plant is organized by “Value Streams”. A Value Stream consists of the activities and information flow that occur while moving the product from the raw material to the possession of the customer. The philosophy of Lean Manufacturing is to eliminate waste and continuously improve quality and productivity. The WSP Plant has been organized by Value Stream for each product produced. There are six Value Streams detailed below:
1) Motor Value Stream
2) Pump Value Stream
3) Seal & Gas Separator Value Stream
4) Surface Electrical Equipment Value Stream
5) Finishing & Logistics Value Stream
6) Repair Value Stream
Members of each Value Stream share one office space together on the manufacturing floor within their respective production area. Value Streams have sole responsibilities of their production business; and are empowered to manage every aspect of their given product, beginning with the ordering of raw materials, and all the way through to the delivery of finished products to the customer. From their vantage point, the team can clearly see all Value Stream daily activities and work together to immediately address manufacturing problems as they arise. Each value stream is a small business unit by itself, which has its own manager, engineer, quality assurance inspector, quality tester, production planner, materials purchaser, inventory controller, data entry clerk, machinists, and assemblers. |
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