More effective processes at LEAX through restructuring in production

In order to get through the past financial crises that hit the whole industry business we at LEAX were forced to start rethinking and becoming even more creative in our ways. By using methods within business reengineering a first step has been taken by restructuring a large part in our production. 

 

An area of 850 sqm has been made available for this at one of our production sites at Nya Hamnvägen in Köping. A big restructure has been made with both existing machines and with new investments in order to build up new production flows for shafts to the heavy commercial vehicles industry.

These new production flows have been built within the Lean concept where focus has been on creating good effective flows in order to minimize lead times, optimize cycle times and improvements of capability have been made to increase the quality. To make this possible investments have been made for around 10 MSEK, all efforts made in order to strengthen our future competitiveness and to further strengthen our technical skills. The driveline products that will be produced here are amongst the most complicated ones in a driveline when it comes to complexity.

 

For more information regarding this please contact Mr. Frank Johansen, Market & Sales Manager, via e-mail frank.johansen@leax.se or via phone +46 221 34614 alternative +46 70 564 02 05.

 

 

About LEAX:
LEAX Group is a Swedish based group with about 450 employees. The group has factories in Köping and Falun in Sweden and furthermore in Riga and Rezekne in Latvia. LEAX Group is a contact manufacturer of mechanical and electromechanical components and subsystems for commercial vehicles- power generation and mining and construction industries. Furthermore the Group supplies consultancy services within project management, QA and environmental management. The LEAX Group turnover for 2009 was 450 MSEK.