Case Study l OTC
80/20 Inc. partnered with Tata Technologies to significantly improve efficiency and productivity while meeting their customers’ needs with custom solutions that are optimized for the application and safer for the user.
The challenge
Because workspace functionality is taking on an increasingly strategic role within business activities, 80/20’s customers are challenged with finding more efficient and productive ways to operate. Companies that want to become or stay lean are continually looking to curb wastes in inventory, motion, and waiting. 80/20 customers need a station design that can be adjusted up or down to accommodate the user; mount bins for storage or incorporate paneling to organize tools. 80/20 must determine its customers needs and be able to create and translate those needs into a model design that can be easily manufactured.
The company
When facility managers purchase off-the-shelf solutions, they often settle for products that don’t optimize the resources. This leads to a waste of valuable floor space and forces employees and capital to conform to the application, causing inefficiency and possible safety hazards. 80/20 provides custom solutions that support the focus on continuous improvement, avoid spending money, time and resources unnecessarily. A typical 80/20 custom-designed workstation conforms to employees and processes decreasing injuries, increasing productivity, and reducing costs.
The solution
Working with Tata Technologies, and implementing and utilizing AutoCAD and the many translators provided by Autodesk, 80/20 accepts anything from simple, hand-drawn sketches to leading edge 3D formats from its customers. 80/20 enables completely custom solutions that support their customers focus on continuous improvement by also providing design services using Autodesk applications. An Autodesk workflow allows 80/20 to rapidly customize designs of machine & safety guarding, work & packing tables, material handling carts, and assorted work stands, then quickly react to customer feedback and revisions. These 80/20 custom-designed workstation conforms to employees and the processes to decrease injuries, increase productivity, and reduce costs. 90/20 also provides comprehensive documentation for assembly & onsite installation by using common file formats provided with AutoCAD.
The result
80/20 can deliver custom workstations that improve the user experience, with the required installation instructions to ensure product performance. 80/20 wins more business by not only making it easy for potential customers to submit requirements, but by being able to reduce time to completion, and most importantly, provide the solutions that make the workstations more productive and safe.
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