Our Approach
Lean/Continuous Improvement is well known but often misunderstood in the manufacturing industry. It is not about cutting staff or capital but instead focusing on eliminating waste and optimizing efficiency. Our team has a deep understanding and a unique bottom-up approach to implementing its principles that result in better outcomes and longer-lasting results. Our approach is to design a unique system for each partner rather than a cookie-cutter one-size-fits-all all approach.
Evaluation
Our team will assess your current processes and identify areas of inefficiency or waste. We’ll analyze your workflows, your systems, and your practices to find opportunities and provide you with recommendations that enhance productivity and reduce costs.
5s Training
Our team will guide and train your employees to learn and implement the five key principles: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain. These principles will lead to more organization and efficiency in the workplace, creating value for your entire shop.
Value Stream Mapping
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) focuses on creating current state and future state maps for your many processes. By using these maps, you can identify bottlenecks, redundancies, and opportunities to overcome challenges and improve your processes.
TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)
Our team will work with you to improve your equipment’s reliability and performance. By creating a proactive maintenance culture, you can reduce downtime, increase equipment efficiency, and extend the lifespan of your equipment and capital
Value Stream Mapping
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) focuses on creating current state and future state maps for your many processes. By using these maps, you can identify bottlenecks, redundancies, and opportunities to overcome challenges and improve your processes.
TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)
Our team will work with you to improve your equipment’s reliability and performance. By creating a proactive maintenance culture, you can reduce downtime, increase equipment efficiency, and extend the lifespan of your equipment and capital
SMED (Quick Changeover)
With this method, we focus on minimizing your equipment changeover times. By employing these efficient techniques, you can reduce downtime between your product runs, you can increase production flexibility and respond more quickly to customer demands.
KPI Management
What are the best KPI’s and what is the best way to measure them? With our KPI management service, we will help you identify both, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement. Better data means better decisions.
Problem-Solving
Our team will help you to truly understand what is a problem. We will train and lead various problem-solving methods – (Fishbone, SWOT) – not a band-aid on the problem, but getting to the root of it.
Material Flow /Kanban Replenishment
We will work with you to focus on material flow optimization and the efficient movement of goods throughout your facility. Kanban systems utilize visual cues to trigger replenishment, allowing you to maintain the appropriate inventory levels and enhance your production flow.
Problem-Solving
Our team will help you to truly understand what is a problem. We will train and lead various problem-solving methods such as (Fishbone, SWOT). Not a band-aid on the problem, but getting to the root of it.
Material Flow /Kanban Replenishment
We will work with you to focus on material flow optimization and the efficient movement of goods throughout your facility. Kanban systems utilize visual cues to trigger replenishment, allowing you to maintain the appropriate inventory levels and enhance your production flow.
Warehouse Design/Layout
By working with us to optimize your warehouse design and layout, we can help you enhance material flow, and increase operational efficiency. Through this strategic planning and organization, you can minimize unnecessary movement and improve your order fulfillment.
Our continuous improvement services can play a crucial role in enhancing your company’s performance and creating a positive culture. By working with us to identify and choose the services based on your unique needs, we can drive sustainable growth and help you grow and remain competitive.