Factories are a big investment. They can can cost up to 4 times the cost of an office and 2 times the cost of a lab. In recent years the planning of a factory installation has been increasingly handled by experts on factory design called integrators. Symbiote's in-house experts in faciltiy design often work with integrators to insure the success of a factory installation.

One of the factors taken into account by integrators and Symbiote's designers is the shapes of work groups in today’s factories, incorporating KanBan and various cell groupings. Symbiote's FastFactory solutions are flexible and modular in nature so that they can accommodate any work flow and cell groupings that the factory calls for.

Unlike offices and labs, factories are built, not installed. With Symbiote solutions, the infrastructure is built at the macro level using one of our product systems, UltraFrame or QuadPost. Individual workl stations are customized at the micro level for specific tasks using custom parts and accessories that may be fabricated from raw materials and extruded industrial lumber.

The chart below shows how Symbiote solutions stack up against five different variables. The chart illustrates that the relative importance of these variables to your factory installation will help determine the Symbiote product systems you use to build your factory.