Outside the backdoor of the warehouse at Medtronic Xomed’s Jacksonville, FL, facility there’s a sure sign the lean transformation has spread beyond manufacturing — a large, flat meadow.
The meadow was graded level for the foundation of a planned warehouse addition, a project that ultimately was shelved after a lean transformation of the domestic shipping department freed up thousands of square feet in the warehouse.
“We were going to add 50,000 square feet to this building,” recalled David Duncan, director of logistics, standing on the mezzanine level of the existing 30,000-square-foot warehouse. Steel ceiling rafters are festooned with flags from the 100-plus countries where Xomed sells its microsurgical products to ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialists. On the warehouse floor, in an area once crammed with conveyors and storage racks, operators in a production cell turn out products to meet burgeoning sales. The cell used to be located in Xomed’s assembly plant next door. Raw materials were delivered to the warehouse then moved to the cell. Finished products were transported back to the……………………………………..
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