The image that most commonly comes to mind when we hear the word “factory” is a heavy industrial plant with long assembly lines manned by workers with wrenches and power tools... the traditional factory. But factories that service high tech industries, factories in the InBetween Workplace, are quite a bit different from this stereotype with quite different needs in terms of work stations and infrastructure. FastFactory is Symbiote’s solution for serving the work environments of these new kinds of work spaces. How are they different from the traditional factory? Materials tend to be light rather than heavy. Processes are electronic rather than mechanical. The environment is clean, not dirty. And, production lines in these new factories have short lives rather than long ones. In the InBetween Workplace, the only constant is change. There is no crystal ball that can tell us what these workplaces will look like in the future. Symbiote’s FastFactory product line aggressively serves this ill-defined and misunderstood work environment with products that are flexible and adaptive. Structures that can be repurposed when the product changes. Workstations that can be customized for the individual worker at the micro level. And building materials that are strong and durable as well as flexible enough to be quickly reconfigured for assembling the next new product. Welcome to Symbiote’s FastFactory: Solutions for the factories of tomorrow, today.

Planning a FastFactory requires new thinking about the space the lab will occupy and how the work flow will be organized.

Building a FastFactory is becoming increasingly complex because today's factories must adapt to new product lines and change their configurations often.