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Bath Furnishings

Cabinets & Furniture


Vanity Tops

By purchasing our products you are supporting America.

Cheap Chinese labour

Unless you move your production to China, youre not going to compete, so buy from us!

Andrew Hedreen President

Chinese

visited Toyota in Japan and discovered Lean Manufacturing

got help from..

Design Implementation Sustainability of Lean Transformations

The Goals:
1. 2. 3.

Reduce Inventory Improve Production output Maintain on-time delivery

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Sort Straighten Shine Standardize Sustain

Over-production Defects

1
7 2
Inventory

Overprocessing

6
Waiting

3
5 4

Motion

Transportation

Pull = Make To Oder Push = Make To Stock Production based on actual demand forecast demand

Batch production of cabinet doors

Goals: - Remove bottlenecks - Minimize handling and wasted motion

Recycling:
wood = 440 trees per year paper, bottles, cans and

cardboard even sawdust!

High-efficiency Lighting System State-of-the-art Air Compressor

Three weeks after completing the Lean Manufacturing program, we were able to see concrete results that definitely exceeded our expectations

Productivity

was improved by 70% Inventory was reduced by 80% Total plan throughput was increased by 72% Lead-time was reduced by 66% Labor cost was reduced by 31% Floor space was reduced by 45%

Inventory almost eliminated

Cabinets never touch the floor!

Assembly line

Wrapping

Waiting trucks

Crafted in USA

14-day delivery
Made to order
Lifetime warranty

Our philosophy is simple: we produce what the market wants. Andrew Hedreen

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