If manufacturing is your business, no matter the size, complexity or scale of the processes, you're almost certainly concerned with maximising efficiency, and eliminating waste. From growth and development, to the overall profitability of the business, efficiency is the key to achieving success in all of these areas.

For many businesses, realising this goal isn't a question of massive investment or drastic changes, but a case of examining manufacturing processes and introducing lean principles to drive improvements.

As one of the UK and Europe's foremost suppliers of workplace storage, Bott understands and helps businesses implement a system of lean manufacturing. Bott Avero is a manual assembly system designed to help clients with complex production lines, maximise the efficiency of their manufacturing processes.

To understand why a product like Avero is so vital to many businesses, it's important to first understand the production and manufacturing challenges they face each day. A complex production line will have several separate processes going on at once, a workforce with a diverse set of specialties and skills and more often than not, highly demanding lead times. Add to that the environmental restrictions that come with micro-electronic products for example, and you have a manufacturing process that simply must be both lean and efficient in order to ensure the continued success of the business.