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The Manufacturing Systems Integration (MSI) Company is grown out of the MSI Research Institute at Loughborough University which was first established in the late 1980’s. Today our globally located and affiliated staff are all manufacturing systems experts with specialist skills in critical areas of manufacturing systems design & life cycle engineering
We have completed a variety of research and consultancy projects for world leading multinationals in aerospace, automotive and white goods industrial sectors as well as for many SMEs operating in furniture, general engineering & electronic industries. These projects have given rise to significantly improved business performance arising from:
· Better supplier relationships
· Integrated production & purchase planning
· Improve plant design & layout
· Faster ramp up & down
· Better policy selection, Lean versus Agile, Push/Pull & Postponement
· Control system change and implementation
· Effective levels of automation
· Improved line balancing
· Improved human systems design, ergonomics and deployment
· Machine re-design & implementation
MSI has industrial experience of using a range of modelling, PDM, systems engineering and virtual reality tools: which include.
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