Rapidly growing in a dynamic and emerging market, the business is founded on high quality R and D and flexible and responsive manufacturing.
The main focus of the FujiFilm transformation has been to shift the organization’s ‘mindset’ to that of a service business. This has required a shift from traditional large corporate manufacturing thinking into a highly innovative, agile, customer-centric approach.
Key strategic challenges essential to drive growth and increase profitability have been addressed.

• Providing unique and tailored services for customers
• driving increased productivity in all business activities
• reducing lead times and increasing flexibility

• ‘Size of the Prize’ analysis was carried out to identify priority focus areas for improvement
• A new deployment vision and roadmap was developed strengthening the programme alignment with the business strategic objectives and required outcomes
• Leadership involvement and engagement with the programme was deepened
• Critically the programme scope was extended out beyond manufacturing to cover other strategically vital business activities e.g. R and D, QC, Engineering support, Sales and Operations Planning

• To date over 40 Green Belts and 330 Yellow belts have been trained, and have completed improvement projects and Kaizen events
• 5S and visual management has been rolled out across all key manufacturing and laboratory areas (including R and D)
• Lean Daily Management processes have been introduced
• Improvement activities have been undertaken tackling wide range of issues including reducing process cycle times, increasing QC productivity, increasing Right First Time, reducing losses and reducing equipment downtime
• A new manufacturing structure and shift pattern implemented on time and on budget
• Annualised hard benefit of >£1.8 million
• Significant increase in productivity with 20% reduction in headcount
• Record number of new product introductions into manufacturing with 60% reduction in new product introduction cycle time