What Differentiates LAI from Other Manufacturing Companies

Innovative ideas, best-in-class people, optimized process, leading edge technology and an unashamed commitment to challenging established paradigms are helping us re-define the traditional manufacturing and supply chain model.

Our business model is based on providing the best direct material productivity and manufacturing supply and assembly solutions to the world’s most innovative companies. LAI is a strategic supplier to industry leaders who are driven to be the best in their vertical markets. Our customers are our partners. We collaborate to deliver innovative solutions to manufacturing problems, improve product throughput and optimize processes. LAI leverages continuous value-engineering, LEAN and Six Sigma processes, integrated material sourcing and thought-leading intellectual property to deliver your mission-critical products and assemblies. We handle contract manufacturing ranging from single-engineered products to complex manufacturing requiring multi-tier supply chain management. We are a complete manufacturing solution provider with a passion to commit and the conviction to deliver.

Many of our manufacturing solutions are the result of technology and manufacturing skills that are genuinely unique to LAI. Together with our depth and breadth of processes we are positioned to offer complete supply chain solutions for our customers. We work closely with our Fortune 1000 customer base at every stage of the manufacturing and product-delivery process. LAI offers numerous leading-edge solutions to the manufacturing of mission-critical components for highly demanding customer applications.

Combining these skills and institutionalizing a LEAN and Six-Sigma manufacturing philosophy has resulted in our delivery of industry leading time-to-market solutions at a level of cost that is also highly competitive. We find the best manufacturing solution for our customers’ requirements, resulting in the creation of long-standing commercial relationships built on mutual trust and understanding. LAI’s approach to manufacturing solution delivery is driven by extremely focused R&D, extensive use of PLM and factory automation technologies, LEAN and Six Sigma processes and a highly educated and motivated workforce.

Our Values

Customers and Delivered Value

  • Deliver excellent and continuously improving products and services to exceed our customers' expectations
  • Continue to be the best in class in terms of value through quality, technology, speed, performance and innovation
  • Treat our suppliers and partners fairly as an integral part of our total capability to serve our customers

Enterprise and Innovation

  • Foster the spirit of enterprise-wide innovation
  • Grow profitability by managing risk, delivering superior solutions and using initiative
  • Continuous acceleration of our business processes

People

  • Inspire outstanding performance from teams and individuals and recognize and appropriately reward achievement
  • Encourage employees to fulfill their potential for the benefit of the customer, themselves and the organization
  • Enable teamwork and individual achievement within a culture of empowerment and accountability
  • Stimulate the creation of new manufacturing solutions through continuous knowledge-sharing and development of best practices across our entire organization
  • Provide equal opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age
  • Maintain a safe and productive working environment

Community, Environment and Business Ethics

  • We will act with integrity and professionalism at all times.
  • We will comply with the regulatory framework applicable wherever we operate.
  • We will continue to meet standards of good corporate governance.
  • We will continue to play our part in safeguarding the environment.
  • We will always contribute positively to the communities in which we operate.

Why Outsource with LAI?

LAI incorporates a Direct Material Utilization discipline, combined with world-class people, processes and intellectual property to manufacture make-complete precision parts. LAI coordinates supply chain management to reduce the number of vendors to deliver make-complete precision parts on time.

  • LAI’s Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) teams help customers reduce production costs
  • Management of risk with contractual obligation
  • Operational expertise
  • Access to larger staffing pool and wider range of skills and experience
  • Management of capacity
  • Improved quality of product—Six Sigma— continuous improvement in quality
  • Reduction of time to market
  • Application of LEAN—extreme focus on eliminating wait states
  • Reduction in production cycle — 40%
  • Design changes—optimized for improved manufacturability
  • Efficient raw material purchases—supply chain leverage through volume
  • Lead-time compression to get new products to shop floor — 60% plus
  • Minimal scrap — 0.17% scrap rate
  • Reduction in product acquisition costs — average 3-7% annually