LEADERSHIP

Our consultants have expertise in a wide range of manufacturing areas including: inventory management and inventory reduction; on-time customer delivery; lean flow manufacturing systems utilizing linked-cell manufacturing with Kanban pull signals and andon lights; integrated business systems; bar-coding data collection systems; sourcing e-auctions; vendor certification; in-house stores; pull contracts; EDI; Total Quality Six Sigma methodology utilizing Statistical Process Control (SPC) and “mistake proofing” techniques (Poka-Yoke); yield improvement; establishing truly empowered cross-functional, self-directed teams; identification and implementation of best practices; low-cost country material sourcing and product relocation; labor union relations; acquisitions due-diligence; and plant closings.

Our achievements have focused on delivering a quality product at the lowest possible cost to our clients customers on time and have included increasing product throughput velocity to less than three days; final assembly first-pass yield increasing to better than 99%; driving annual purchase cost savings of better than 7% a year while reducing inventory by 65% and driving on-time customer deliveries to above 99% - true six sigma implementations.