FREE resource CD contains lean solutions for packaging OEMs, including lean manufacturing toolbox and software tools.December 22, 2006 - Buchanan, MI – The Linear Motion and Assembly Technologies group from the Bosch Rexroth Corporation is offering a free Packaging Machinery OEM Productivity Kit available upon request from the company’s web site at www.boschrexroth-us.com/lean . The tri-fold brochure and resource CD presents a multitude of solutions to help packaging OEMs implement lean manufacturing techniques.
The kit includes a video presentation of manual production systems along with practical pointers on material flow, people flow, and information flow. Included on the CD is the guidebook “Lean Manufacturing: Principles, Tools, and Methods,” which highlights nine principles of lean manufacturing that will help increase productivity and improve profits. The kit also highlights “Seven Types of Waste in Packaging.”
Bosch Rexroth AG, part of the Bosch Group, achieved sales of approximately $5.7 billion (4.6 billion Euro) in 2005 with over 28,200 employees. Under the brand name of Rexroth the company offers all drive and control technologies, from mechanics, hydraulics and pneumatics to electronics and associated service. Over 500,000 customers worldwide utilize Rexroth’s unique technological know-how to implement their innovative and future-oriented systems and machine concepts.
The global player, represented in over 80 countries, is an extensive supplier of components and systems for industrial and factory automation and mobile applications.
