Starting a business that involves industrial processes is one of the bravest and most difficult business beginnings. Instead of simply being one person with their laptop, or a small team working digitally to set up an online store or a disruptive app, you’re going to have to go the whole way in order to get the industrial site you need, and all the equipment and licensing that’ll enable you to carry out your work at your premises.
This article aims to guide you through that process, showing you how to take care of the most important responsibilities well.
Finding a Site
Your first step is to find a site in which to base your business. Industrial businesses usually need to bear in mind the following factors when choosing a location for their work:
- What size will you need – and will you need to have the space to expand rapidly if required?
- Do you need to be located somewhere that’s out of town in order to allow for logistics and transport ease?
- Which sites are surrounded by similar business that you might be able to share some resources with?
When considering these three questions, it’s not unheard of to conclude that you should locate your business in the out-of-town industrial district in which rent is cheap and you’re able to perform noisy and cumbersome processes with ease.
Setting Up Your Site
Now you’ve got the rental sorted, it’s time to set up your site. Right off the bat, you’re going to need to think about utilities: you cannot run any type of industrial process without using up quite a bit of electricity for your machines – and you’ll need to heat your workshops and factory sections, as well as powering your internet servers and computer networks.
Second, you need to install the machines that you’ll be using to create products from the raw materials that you buy in. Whether this comes in the form of a heavy-duty lift, or Air Blowers to help clean and seal product containers, you’ll need to slowly create the space that’ll one day be churning out finished products to make your company money. Set up a small manager’s office, and maybe a sales and customer service office, in order to complete your business set-up.
Hiring Staff
Presuming that you have some cash ready to invest in human capital as well as industrial hardware, you should now start the hiring process. Usually, industrial businesses require the following base levels of staff:
- A transport and logistics coordinator
- A sales office manager, with a couple of staff to help process orders
- A customer service and customer relations assistant
- Factory floor individuals, with the training to keep your factory safe
- Marketing, PR and creative media producers to help sell your products
You should also consider finding team members with a wealth and variety of skills so that they’re able to perform a number of duties in their role as your business gets on its feet and develops some best practice responses to market forces. That way, you’ll be covered come obstacles or high weather.
This guide aims to enlighten you as to how to set up your industrial business – from finding a site to getting the staff to populate it.
