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Eugster & Frismag’s daily habit behind a 30% productivity gain
A Swiss legacy building operational excellence
Eugster & Frismag, a Swiss-founded, family-owned manufacturer with 45 years of engineering experience, partnered with Kaizen Institute to transform its growing plant at its Torres Vedras site in Portugal into a model of operational discipline.
Producing around 700,000 coffee machines a year with over 1,300 employees, the company redesigned its assembly lines around pull-system principles and applied SMED to reduce setup times in a continuous plastics injection operation, while autonomous teams took full ownership of their setups, maintenance, and breakthrough results.
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Connecting daily operations to strategy
By extending Daily KAIZEN™ to every team and function and connecting daily work to strategy through hoshin kanri, Eugster & Frismag raised assembly productivity by 30% and cut inventory coverage by 40%, turning continuous improvement into the way the plant runs from day one.
With decades of experience applying Lean methodologies such as pull systems, SMED, and Daily KAIZEN™ across manufacturing environments worldwide, Kaizen Institute helps organizations turn operational excellence into a lasting way of working, not a one-off project.
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