Manufacturing
Warehouse Design, Engineering
Objective
Design and implement a fully automated manufacturing line for the company, eSalon.
eSalon is the Los Angeles-based beauty technology company revolutionizing personalized hair color through proprietary color-matching algorithms and custom formulation systems.
What I've done
1. Facility Strategic Planning
2. Hardware Design Engineering
3. Production Optimization & Automation
4. Quality Control Infrastructure
5. Manufacturing Cost Engineering
6. Facility Integration (with collaboration)
Process
Research: Conducted a comprehensive analysis of eSalon's manufacturing strengths/bottlenecks.
Conceptual Engineering: CAD models were built to explore multiple automation pathway configurations.
Equipment & Contractors: Found robust equipment and contractors that fit the budget, timeline, and support that was needed.
Testing & Refinement: Coordinated alongside a local machine integrator and equipment vendors to bring this line to life.
Implementation & Scaling: Trained staff on operations, designed ancillary support systems for monitoring, spare parts.
Results
First off, a special thanks to Industrial Prosoft Solutions, for the assistance in implementation. The new warehouse facility achieved a 500% production increase while reducing manufacturing costs 60%. Its a beautiful line.
After the success of this warehouse production, we took the lessons learned here to build out a semi-automatic line in London, UK.
Conclusion
I was at eSalon for 7+ years, and besides starting their QC and Hardware departments, this was a major project I undertook while there.
Understanding how materials and employees flow in a warehouse and creating an atmosphere to support this is critical to productivity. This philosophy carried into other manufacturing lines I've set up for other vendors: tube fillers, hot pours/sticks, powder filling lines, etc... which have touched hundreds of products in retail.