How Lean for Business helped Arderin Distillery to keep up with demand.
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Eoin Barra is director of Arderin Distillery in Tullamore. The distillery’s hero product, Mór Irish Gin, is a huge seller – but scaling up and expanding into the UK market led to problems as the company’s output started to fall short of demand. By participating in Lean for Business via their Local Enterprise Office, Eoin and his team were able to identify inefficiencies in their production line and streamline their processes.
“Our Lean consultant arrived down and watched our process, recorded it, identified the weak points and bottlenecks, and then he made suggestions on how to improve it… What Lean did for us was to change our perspective on how we were bottling. We went from 500 bottles an hour to 1500 bottles an hour.”
Eoin would “100% recommend” Lean for Business to other small companies. “It allowed us to take a step back and work on the business,” he says.
Watch the video above to hear more from Eoin.
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