Facility Design
Facility design consulting focused on lean layouts, operational flow, safety, and scalable performance for industrial organizations.
STREAMLINED SOLUTIONS
Facility Design Built for Performance, Not Just Construction
Facility design decisions shape operational performance for decades. Poor layout, disconnected workflows, and misaligned capacity planning create hidden constraints that drive cost, safety risk, and inefficiency long after construction is complete.
VDS partners with organizations to design and optimize facilities that support operational flow, workforce efficiency, regulatory compliance, and future growth, ensuring your facility works as hard as your business does.
SERVICE EXCELLENCE
How VDS Delivers Advantage in Facility Design
Operators First, Designers Second
We approach facility design through an operational lens. Our teams combine industrial engineering, operations leadership, and execution expertise to ensure layouts are built around flow, people, and performance, not theoretical models.
Design for Brownfield and Greenfield Environments
Whether modernizing existing facilities or planning new sites, we help organizations navigate space constraints, legacy infrastructure, environmental considerations, and phased execution with minimal disruption.
Integrated Systems That Endure
VDS aligns facility design with operating models, material flow, safety requirements, and digital system, creating facilities that remain efficient, adaptable, and resilient over time.
SYSTEM THAT DELIVERS
Our Facility Design Solutions
VDS delivers Everything OpEx® to drive immediate gains and long-term excellence in industrial environments. We help private-equity-backed and middle-market manufacturers reduce costs, increase throughput, and build a scalable operations backbone.
Diagnostic & Roadmap Creation
Assessment of current facility performance, constraints, and future requirements, followed by a data-driven design and implementation roadmap aligned with operational and financial goals.
Lean Layout & Process Design
End-to-end facility and layout design focused on material flow, space utilization, ergonomics, safety, and throughput, reducing travel, handling, and waste.
Interim Experts & On-Demand Talent
Deployment of facility planners, industrial engineers, and operations leaders to support design, relocation, expansion, or consolidation initiatives.
Training for Facility & Operations Teams
Capability-building programs for leaders and frontline teams focused on flow design, capacity planning, change management, and sustained operational excellence.
8-STEP OpEx® APPROACH
Disciplined Model for High-Performance Facility Design
The VDS Eight-Step Operational Excellence approach is engineered to deliver sustainable transformation in Facility Design.
Define Value
Clarify business, operational, safety, and compliance objectives that the facility must support.
Establish Strategy
Translate growth plans, production strategy, and workforce needs into facility and site design requirements.
Develop Metrics
Define performance measures tied to flow, utilization, safety, cost, and flexibility.
Maximize Flow
Design layouts that optimize material, people, and information flow while minimizing waste and constraints.
Improve Quality
Embed quality, safety, and compliance considerations into facility design from day one.
Eliminate Variation
Standardize layouts, work zones, and support areas to reduce operational variability.
Analyze Results
Validate designs through simulation, scenario analysis, and operational testing.
Share Success & Learning
Apply proven design principles and standards across sites and future projects.
FAQs – Facility Design
We start with operational flow and performance requirements, ensuring facilities are designed to support how work actually happens.
Yes. We work across new facility development, expansions, consolidations, and brownfield modernization initiatives.
Absolutely. We complement design and engineering partners by ensuring operational requirements are fully integrated.
We use phased execution planning, simulation, and change management to maintain continuity of operations.
Yes. Our approach integrates compliance, safety, and environmental considerations into facility planning and execution.
Yes. We deploy experienced planners and operations leaders to guide complex facility initiatives.
Yes. Facility design is a core enabler of sustainable operational excellence and long-term performance.
PERFORMANCE
Delivering Measurable Impact Through Facility Design
Our approach generates measurable value across capital-intensive industries
Significant throughput improvement through lean layout redesign and flow optimization
Reduced capital spend by right-sizing facilities and eliminating non-value-added space
Improved safety and ergonomics through intentional design of work zones and material handling
Faster time-to-operation for new and expanded facilities through disciplined execution planning
Design Facilities That Enable Long-Term Performance
Great facilities don’t happen by accident. VDS helps organizations design environments that support efficient operations, engaged workforces, and scalable growth, today and into the future.