Business Assessment

An effective way to start is to conduct a State of the Business Assessment.  This review will assess how your business operates from a continuous improvement perspective.  Staff Heads will be interviewed to better understand the current state. More importantly, your facility will be walked, and processes reviewed to get an understanding of the state of the business as it is actually working.

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The assessment will consider metrics (safety, quality, delivery, and cost), current improvement activities, and improvement imperatives (lead time, cost, inventory performance, on-time delivery, quality).

One facility and one Value Stream within that facility will be identified for specific review to create the assessment detail.  A summary document will be provided that includes improvement opportunities, recommended Lean and other continuous improvement tools and a skeleton roadmap.

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Finally, the summary will be presented to the site management including an open and frank discussion of the business.

Lean Training, Events & Implementation

When choosing to employ continuous improvement technologies, training is a necessity.  Each technology requires a different level of training to get started and a significant amount of training to gain the full benefits they provide.

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Events may be as short as 2 hours or as long as a week depending upon the technology.  These Events will have a cross-functional group of people, including managers, supervisors, and operations associates focused on one operation to improve. 

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The expectation is that the improvement process will be applied in every team member’s functional area as well after they are trained. 

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Training will be conducted using the Hear, See, Do method which is designed to create a hands-on experience and end with actual improvements implemented.

Executive Overview of Continuous Improvement

After the assessment, a great next step is an Executive overview for the Senior Staff.  It will cover the concepts and principles of the improvement technologies and provide senior leaders with basic terminology and a framework to understand some of the processes to be implemented and changes to be made for improvements to occur.

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The overview is generally 3 - 5 hours long and tailored to focus on the processes and technologies that will provide your company the best opportunity for the most significant improvements.  

As an alternative, the overview can cover most of the improvement technologies and processes so the staff can be involved with identifying areas of the company where the technologies and processes can be applied for a needed impact.

Industrial & Facilities Engineering, Operations & Project Management

Whether growing, rearranging or restructuring we have the experience to help you. 

• Are you adding equipment, robots, automation, digitalization? Do you need a better layout to run your operation or office more effectively? 

  • We can manage the project, upgrade the facilities, create the layouts and flow and set up the processes and procedures for you

• Are you adding a facility?

  • We have experience starting up four new facilities

• Do you need additional floorspace? 

  • ​Don't buy space until you reclaim the space you already have!!

• Do you have excess capacity? Do you need to close a facility? Do you want to avoid the tag of being the person that closes facilities?

  • ​​As an Executive Project Manager, we closed two facilities with annual sales of $26M and $17 and we can help you handle your restructuring