Starting a lean journey in a high-mix environment

Join us for an immersive tour at Beltservice Corporation, designed specifically for companies looking to launch or reinvigorate their lean journey — especially those managing complexity in a high-mix, low-volume environment. This experience offers a real-world look at how lean tools and principles can be successfully adapted in environments with high variation.

Please note: The tour site will provide safety glasses. A signed NDA is required to attend this tour.

Overview

The tour will start with a high-level overview of Beltservice and the first years of our lean transformation, including challenges faced and lessons learned. From there, small groups will rotate through three focused site visits:

1. How Beltservice is increasing worker knowledge and skills about equipment upkeep, preliminary clean ups and equipment inspections, and elimination of contamination sources (beginning steps of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Program) to lay the foundation for equipment reliability.
2. How value stream analysis and improvement efforts will help double production capacity of the company's ProTurn cell
3. How Beltservice accelerated order fulfillment while increasing flexibility in its standard “Fast Flow” products.

After the shop floor tour, you'll review our strategy deployment process and lean transformation pathway. The session will wrap up with practical insights into supply chain improvements and the role of career pathing in sustaining a continuous improvement culture.

Whether you’re just starting or re-energizing your lean efforts, this tour delivers real examples of lean in action — tailored to the demands of high variability and high expectations.

Company

Founded in 1969, Beltservice Corporation is North America’s largest “wholesale-fabricator” of conveyor belting. The company exists to serve two distinct categories of “resellers”:

1. Industrial distributors who focus on servicing end users in MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) products and services across a broad array of industries
2. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who engineer, design and build equipment to support and automate processes across a broad array of industries.

As a dedicated wholesaler Belservice Corportation is committed only to resellers and not end-users. https://beltservice-corporation.webflow.io/