A personal radio advanced flowline manufacturing system

The Philips range of hand-portable PMR communication products, the PFX and the PF85, have been in production since 1984. The success of the products has resulted from an application of fundamental market-driven philosophies to what had been a «traditional» batch-build manufacturing environment. Since introduction, the market place for these products has changed dramatically, with an intensifying of competition from lower cost products. Philips selected Handley-Walker, a UK-based firm of management consultants, to assist with the design and implementation of a new chosen system. The simple brief was to improve the commercial performance of the company's portable radio products through an extensive re-alignment of manufacturing facilities