Tag: facilities management

GE Appliances to invest $3B in US manufacturing. The funds will help the front-load washer manufacturer continue to reshore production from Mexico and China. Published Aug. 14, 2025. By Sara Samora, Reporter. Features an image with the caption: A general view of the production line at GE appliances on Aug. 13 in Louisville, Kentucky. The company aims to reshore production of its GE Profile brand washer and dryer combo and UltraFresh front-load washer line from China at the Louisville facility. - Michael Hickey for GE Appliances, a Haier company via Getty Images

Reshoring

Greenfield & Brownfield Expansions

A historic shift towards reshoring is underway, with over $1 trillion in new U.S. manufacturing commitments. However, turning these bold announcements into successful operations is a complex, multi-year challenge. Kormac provides the specialized expertise to bridge this gap. We help manufacturers navigate greenfield expansions to turn ambitious plans into reality….

Traverse Connect & GTAMC Present the Northern Michigan Manufacturing Summit. Featuring speakers like Stan Gwizdak from the Kormac Group

Digital & AI

Technology Alone Isn’t a Panacea

Strategic Procurement offers major supply chain savings, but only when done right. We’ve compiled the 7 most common pitfalls we see in Strategic Procurement deployments, along with the strategies we employ to help our client partners avoid them….

Achieving Reshoring Cost Parity with Speed and Precision Around the world, conditions are accelerating shifts toward localized, more controllable manufacturing and supply chains. Kormac enjoys meeting our client partners' facility needs, whether they be greenfield or brownfield, domestic or international. We address the technical, tactical, and cultural aspects of facility transition to ensure strategic alignment, schedule attainment, fiscal adherence, enhanced resilience, and performance sustainability. See PDF for more.

Cost Parity

Achieving Reshoring Cost Parity

Reshoring is gaining momentum, but achieving cost parity remains a challenge. Our concise guide outlines key strategies for minimizing upfront investment and achieving production cost targets in domestic operations….

Painless facility expansions & transitions

Reshoring

Facility Moves, Expansions, & Transitions

The “Reshoring Renaissance” is picking up steam! Several of Kormac’s manufacturing client partners have asked for our assistance in supporting greenfield and brownfield U.S. plant expansions. Around the world, conditions are accelerating shifts toward localized, more controllable manufacturing and supply chains….

2024 Maze

Feeling a little lost in 2024?

While 2023’s anticipated recession never arrived, geopolitical uncertainty poses continued challenges to forecasting, planning, and execution….

Manufacturing TOW Seamless Consolidation & Transfer Following a series of mergers, an aerospace and defense electronics supplier turned to Kormac for assistance in consolidating several manufacturing sites. - 20% floor space reduction - 17% capital investment reduction - Readiness - robust transfer plan Our transfer of work collaboration included: Needs assessment, manufacturing process enhancement, site requirements definition, line and space optimization, end-to-end project planning, labor planning, OTIF delivery planning, financial documentation, and communications.

Manufacturing TOW

Seamless Consolidation & Transfer

Manufacturers are on the move, with many pursuing facility consolidations and transfers. We recently supported an aerospace and defense supplier in consolidating several manufacturing sites following a series of mergers….

Rationalization Excess facilities, equipment, products, systems, or platforms? Check your baggage. It's hard to get anywhere fast when you're dragging legacy assets. Companies that grow rapidly or by acquisition eventually reach a day of reckoning when they are forced to grapple with their disparate collection of facilities, manufacturing platforms, or product lines. Kormac has decades of experience in helping organizations to reassess, redesign, and rationalize operational and product portfolios.

Rationalization

Check your baggage

Companies that grow rapidly or by acquisition eventually reach a day of reckoning when they are forced to grapple with their disparate collection of facilities, manufacturing platforms, or product lines….

Manufacturing Facilities Optimization: Detailed Plant Scenarios and Modeling - Reduced manpoower requirements by 33%, cut warehouse overtime, and optimized off-site storage locations

Manufacturing Facilities Optimization: Detailed Plant Scenarios and Modeling

Reduced manpower requirements by 33%, cut warehouse overtime, and optimized off-site storage locations

As US manufacturers consider reshoring, they’re often prompted to reevaluate the configuration of existing facilities, including storage. We help such leaders develop detailed plant scenarios and models to guide recommendations on combining, consolidating, redesigning, and/or automating plants, including estimated costs and savings for each scenario. To follow is a chemical...
Space Rationalization The Economist - Shaky foundations: As offices remain empty, does a financial reckoning loom? June 5 2021 edition As organizations reasses real estate needs, we can help with facility consolidation and best practices Case study: Oil & Gas Footprint Rationalization -53% Square footage Reduced space requirements and executed 6 facility moves through implementation of Lean, 6S, Standard Work, Visual Factory, Optimized OEE, and other operational efficiencies

Space Rationalization

Facility Consolidation Best Practices

“As companies try to tempt workers back to the office … a huge uncertainty hangs over them: will enough people come? Even as vaccinations progress, workers have been slow to return. In early May only one in 20 buildings in America had occupancy levels above 10%.” – The Economist, June...