Assured Automation’s Lean Manufacturing Delivers Quick Response

Assured Automation of Clark, NJ, founded more than 20 years ago, is a leading supplier of automated valves and flow components for industrial process control applications.

In 2002, Assured Automation instituted Lean Manufacturing with the assistance of New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc. (NJMEP), and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

Assured Automation produces a full line of standardized, automated valve assemblies featuring a selection of commonly used accessories. The company complements these products with its complete valve automation services, supplying special automated valve assemblies designed to a particular client’s specifications, and offers full design capabilities such as AutoCAD and Solidworks.

Company president Bill Farrell reports, “Our Lean Manufacturing improved assembly and quality by facilitating rapid assembly and shipment.”

Principles of Lean Manufacturing are applied throughout the company’s products and services, including:

• Assured Automation’s full line of standardized, automated valve assemblies and accessories. 
• Its complete valve automation services, supplying special automated valve assemblies designed to a client’s specifications
• Full design capabilities such as AutoCAD and Solidworks
• And the entire order cycle, including sales quoting

Lean Manufacturing helped the company achieve greater efficiency by reducing lead times and increasing overall productivity. Improvements in manufacturing and business processes contribute to greater productivity reduced operating costs and increased responsiveness to customers.

Lean manufacturing is a methodology to preserve value with less work. Its management philosophy is derived originally from the Toyota Production System (TPS), which focuses on reduction of Toyota’s original seven wastes to improve overall customer value. A Lean Manufacturing organization eliminates waste while meeting customers’ needs by producing what they want, when they need it.