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Accelerating
PerformanceTM
Leveraging
your people to drive process
improvement
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High-performance
manufacturing requires both Process
Efficiency and People Effectiveness.
By leveraging the talents and energies
of your entire organization to solve
problems, eliminate waste and continually
improve operations, plant goals are
achieved more quickly and your plant is
more competitive.
Accelerating
PerformanceTM
is a unique on-site process designed to
help you:
1.
Engage
plant floor employees to work towards
day-to-day operational
improvements,
2.
Provide
the skills to be able to apply
Best
Manufacturing
Practices
- the tools and techniques to eliminate
downtime, defects and other waste factors
and
3.
Make continuous improvement a reality
at the operating level.
A
custom job shop
was
able to reduce mfg. lead times by over
50% and increase operating profits by
nearly 40%
A
wood products
company
improved work flow through
manufacturing and reduced inventories
by nearly 70%
A
bulk chemical
manufacturer
increased plant capacity utilization by
12% with zero hiring or capital
investment, and
A
consumer products packaging
plant
reduced recordable injuries by over 90%
within two years
How
can we help you achieve your
goals?
Accelerating
PerformanceTM
is a 6-month process, conducted at your
facility, that can help you:
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Boost
profits through increased throughput and
reduced costs
Improve
work methods that result in less downtime,
scrap, rework and other waste factors
Reduce
quality defects and increase yields by building
the skills needed to ensure first-pass quality at
the operating level
Increase
equipment reliability and performance by
improving accountability and transferring the
skills needed to maintain assets
Reduce
lead times and improve service
levels
Reduce
inventories and associated costs
Develop
committed employees striving for better
productivity, quality and customer
service
Revitalize
continuous improvement efforts throughout the
organization
We
guarantee that we will identify productivity and
quality improvements that will recover the costs of
the program several times
over
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and we work with you until those savings are
achieved.
Here's
how it works:
Step
1. Operational Assessment
We
first understand your operating objectives,
then evaluate critical processes within your
operation to identify improvement opportunities,
aligned with your objectives.
We
meet with operators, technicians and leaders
plant-wide to better understand the organization
and its current capabilities.
We
evaluate capacity utilizaton and throughput,
equipment reliability, first-pass quality, plant
floor leadership and a host of other success
factors and compare current practices and
performance against world-class benchmarks for
your industry.
Finally,
we develop a practical, step-by-step Action
Plan that engages plant floor personnel and
get management approval to proceed.
Step
2. Training and Implementation
To
be effective contributors to process
improvement, people need skills. We provide
just-in-time training in the skills required for
successful implementation, including basic
equipment maintenance, quality impovement,
lean/world-class manufacturing principles and
problem-solving/root causes analysis.
We
also train the trainers and leaders who will
direct future team activities. The goal is to
develop capable and committed problem-solvers
and process improvers plant-wide.
Next,
working directly with plant leaders and
teams, we
work on rapid implementation of improvements,
testing new methods and measuring the
results.
Teams
utilize Best Manufacturing Practices from Lean,
TQM, TPM and other disciplines to work
together to eliminate waste and improve
productivity in their own work areas.
Daily
activities engage the entire shop floor in
continuous improvement to directly support the
plant's broader objectives.
Step
3. Ensuring Success
In
this final phase, we help implement a system to
sustain the gains and ensure continued
progress. The work teams assume accountability
for Cost, Quality and Delivery.
Plant
leaders coach for continuous improvement and
operating performance is made visible
plant-wide.
After
about 6 months, a true plant-wide continuous
improvement process is in place and on-going
improvement projects mobilize teams to work towards
common plant objectives. The entire process is
highly focused on engaging and energizing employees
and achieving significant operational
improvements.
To
find out more, request
a brochure
or contact
us
for a free consultation.
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