The Tools Of Management

Where Value Is Created.  The principles and practices of lean manufacturing are a response to demands of increasingly more sophisticated consumers, driving companies to continuously improve every aspect of the value chain.  Ultimately, all of the efforts of the many skilled and talented people it takes to bring a product to market coalesce in the manufacturing units responsible for producing the products.  Managers must be prepared, flexible, quick to react, cost effective and quality conscious to survive in that kind of environment - an environment Salvagnini has been inhabiting for over 30 years.

Control & Feedback.  Through its decades long emphasis on creating flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) that reduce overall process time, Salvagnini has developed the tools of lean manufacturing that managers of sheet metal fabrication shops rely upon for system control and feedback.  Flexible, automatic punching, shearing, laser cutting and bending machines that respond instantly to demands for either batch production or single piece part processing.   Material handling systems that managers use to control inventories and reduce work in process. Opera software that dialogues with ERP systems to initiate projects and provide real-time progress reports.  MetalStudio programming that transforms drawings to finished products at the push of a button.

Salvagnini's modular sheet metal processing systems are structured so that companies can build the kind of scalable FMS that suits their needs - one component at a time - to achieve the flexibility, agility, speed, control and feedback that defines lean manufacturing management.