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 We work with manufacturing companies to increase profit by helping them to improve the performance of their existing operations.
In simple terms, we crank up manufacturing plants.
Although it is now routine practice within organisations striving for efficiency to run internal improvement programmes, these are often focused mainly on strategic or ‘top down’ initiatives. Included in this approach are streamlining processes, removing duplication, restructuring, re-organisation, new IT systems. All well known and proven methods of cost reduction.
However, one area often overlooked is the considerable financial saving that can be made by unlocking the potential that lies at the shop floor.
This potential is often not fully understood or is recognised by the business but seen as a constraint of the manufacturing process, or just ‘the nature of the beast.’
Sometimes our clients have previously invested time, money and energy in a continuous improvement programme, such as Lean or Six Sigma, but, for a number of reasons, have not seen the return they were expecting. Other clients are already at the top of the field and are looking for expert input to help them stay there.
Also, internal initiatives to increase operational efficiencies often result in a need for capital expenditure, rather than finding sustainable ways of improving the performance of the existing processes.
Our approach is different. We work directly with the operational management and shopfloor teams to systematically identify and recover the hidden potential within our clients’ operations.
By using our rigorous methodology, tailored to each specific process, we help our clients achieve a 10% to 50% step change in the performance of their manufacturing process, whether manual or automated, within 2-6 months, without capital expenditure. Without fail.
All the work we do is set up around delivering a tangible, measurable financial return. If we don’t deliver, we don’t get paid. We have always met our objectives.
- You need to understand exactly what potential lies within your business, what it’s worth financially and how to recover it to the bottom line
- You want a sustainable improvement in profit
- You are under pressure to increase output without spending capital
- You need to reduce unit cost to maintain market share
- Orders are behind schedule and over budget
- You are struggling to maintain margins as input prices rise and want to reduce the cost of procuring materials
- Waste levels are excessive
- You are holding high levels of stock and WIP in the business
- Persistent quality problems are threatening delivery and sales
- You wish to reduce energy consumption and emissions
- You want to reduce costs but not to the long term detriment of the company’s health
- You have a need to optimise your supply chain to reduce costs while improving service levels, such as OTIF
- Operational performance has been improving by less than 5% per year and you need a rapid step change within this financial year
- Production is facing specific problems that have been identified but not solved to root cause
- We will help you to uncover the hidden potential within your business
- We will help you to rigorous prioritise the losses by financial impact to the business, ensuring that your limited resources are directed onto the critical issues
- We help remove the myths that evolve around the factory floor and it’s limitations
- We will help the local team to challenge the status quo and break through the historical constraints that have limited performance
- We will work directly with your team to rapidly and systematically tackle the problems that impact on the bottom line
- We will physically drive the improvement process until all performance targets have been achieved. Our job is not finished until sustainable profit improvement is seen in the accounts
- Wherever we work we create an atmosphere that is conducive to change and will embed the tools, systems and ownership for the local team to drive continuous improvement
- On site personnel will be trained and mentored so they will continue delivering results long after the engagement is over
Process Optimisation
- Efficiency Improvement
- Output increase
- Reduced unit costs
- Meet delivery schedules
- Labour Utilisation and Productivity
- Reduced reliance on temps and overtime
- Increased flexibility
- Yield Improvement
- Waste Reduction
- Quality Improvement
- Capital Expenditure Avoidance
- Build Planning
- Production Performance Trackers Systems
Supply Chain Improvement
- Working Capital Optimisation
- Stock Optimisation
- OTIF - On Time and In Full improvement
- Procurement Strategy
- Total Cost Reduction ™
Environmental
- Energy Usage Reduction
- Specific Problem Solving
- Emission Reduction
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| A 10% - 50% increase in the performance of any manufacturing process in 2 - 6 months without capital expenditure. |
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