Assembly in Action: Lean Approach to Work Flow Delivers Numerous Benefits
Every day, Ossur Americas assem-bles and ships more than 800 cervical collar packages from its 52,000-square-foot facility in Paulsboro, NJ, to users worldwide. The company also develops, manufactures and assembles millions of prosthetics and other novel medical devices annually at the facility.
In 2008, Ossur made the plant’s distribution and assembly areas more lean by replacing traditional flat tables with Flow Cell flow-through workstations. The workstations take up less space and prevent clutter because they feed raw material to the assemblers in an uninterrupted way.