Platinum Stairlifts

Case Study

Platinum Stairlifts is an award winning stairlifts manufacturer based in Keighley, providing high quality custom and off the shelf products to a number of stockists internationally.

The Challenge

With demand increasing rapidly and ambitious growth targets, the company needed to increase productivity to ensure that product is always available from stock.

The challenge was to design and implement a new production line which could facilitate withdrawing from finished goods and maximise the output in the same facility with no additional resources.

The Solution

We conducted an assessment and mapping of Platinum’s production line to identify wasteful activities:

We designed a new flow model by:

The Value

The Platinum team achieved some outstanding results. The before and after graphs shown below are not exaggerated in any way!

Testimony

This is our first project with Fluere. The new production line they have designed is significantly easier to manage and has improved our productivity dramatically. Fluere listened to our needs attentively and worked with the team, involving them at every step. They have provided a holistic service, considered all areas of the production and provided us with the necessary tools to continuously improve and grow the business. We are extremely happy with their service and looking forward to continuing work with them.