Manufacturing Process Design, Work Cell Design, Packaging Line Design, Facilities Planning & Layout, Best Practices Recommendations, Implementations and more….

OCI designs, develops, configures, and integrates innovative, cost-effective and proven manufacturing systems that utilize the best of breed combination of commercial/vendor machines and devices to reduce input losses and material costs, increase the performance of existing manufacturing methods, and reduce the overall waste within manufacturing operations. OCI engineers provide the following services to clients in manufacturing:

• Manufacturing process design
• Manufacturing cell design
• Change-over and set-up time reduction
• Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) implementation
• Best practices recommendations for Bills of Material (BOM) / Routing
• Manufacturing best practices recommendations
• Manufacturing plant design
• Assembly line balancing
• Paced assembly line design
• Develop visual work instructions, standard operating procedures and develop visual workplace
• Manufacturing operating cost reductions
• Manufacturing process automation
• Manufacturing capacity expansion
• Manufacturing / assembly line balancing
• Work In Process (WIP) reduction
• Reductions in accidents, improvement in safety, and maintenance of clean and organized work environment along with OSHA compliance
• Application of Lean principles and production scheduling techniques
• Achieve order fulfillment accuracy
• Quality assurance, quality control and statistical process control
• Vision systems for automated inspections and quality control
• Operator, supervisor and management training

OCI engineers have designed and developed fully automated and semi-automated manufacturing systems with compatible equipment to meet a client's specific needs for various industries including the following:

• Pharmaceutical (including bulk powder and liquid filling systems),
• Consumer food (including dry and liquid form, fill, and seal systems),
• Cosmetics,
• Consumer goods and plastics,
• Electronics and assembly,
• Recycled products processing and distribution,
• Retail and wholesale distribution,
• Automotive OEM and aftermarket,
• Health and human nutrition products.

Many of these system designs have included Auto ID/bar-code data collection systems, high-speed machine vision recognition systems, and fully automated statistical process control (SPC) systems. OCI assists clients to significantly improve operations by selecting and implementing the best-fit business system. OCI engineers perform operations review, system selection and configuration to implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) systems based on industry best practices and benchmark standards.

OCI engineers and managers are dedicated and experienced individuals with academic and professional backgrounds in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Information Systems Analysis, Networking Analysis, and much more. OCI personnel use innovative techniques that are proven effective and meet or exceed accepted industry standards.

If your company needs to upgrade existing manufacturing and assembly operations or you are considering the incorporation of new methods/equipment relating to product manufacturing, you should know that OCI can help your organization save time, money and materials, resulting in lower cost and higher profits. The cost of our service is justified and proven through large monetary/capital savings, labor savings, reduced waste, improved product quality, and/or improved process performance.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES: OCI offers two (2) GSA Federal Supply Schedules: GSA Federal Supply Chain Schedule 874V, Logistics Worldwide Services (LOGWORLD) for logistics needs and GSA Federal Supply Chain Schedule 874 Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS) for business services.