Case Study
Ensuring Worker Safety and Quality Product Assemblies
Machine of the Month: Ensuring Worker Safety and Quality Product Assemblies Luminis, an award-winning designer and manufacturer of a wide range of lighting fixtures for both commercial and industrial applications, recently held a Kaizen session to identify ways to improve some of its product assembly methods. One lighting product was especially hard to build and manipulate: weighing in at over 100 pounds, moving it required at least two workers. The Kaizen team decided to develop a workstation that would allow production line workers to handle the assembly steps safely and more ergonomically. Luminis needed a robust workstation, customized to its specific needs, as quickly as possible. Jade Lamontagne from Luminis was attending a trade show in Montreal when she discovered Vention’s platfo