Lean consultancy for engineering and equipment manufacturers
Tired of building precision products on a flow that runs on expediting, rework and spreadsheets?
Your products are sold on precision. The flow behind them, from supplier to shop floor to the customer's site, often runs on expediting, rework and spreadsheets. We work alongside your people to fix that flow, and we leave them able to keep it fixed without us.
Results from the shop floor and the supply chain
- 33% off an €18m warranty bill in two years. High-end machinery manufacturer
- 97.5% yield target reached on a €1m-a-year scrap problem, with a 3:1 return. Ceramic-copper board maker
- £9.6m less inventory across 16 sites, a reduction of 8.2%. European automotive driveline manufacturer
One offer: improvement your people can run themselves
Most improvement programmes fade when the consultant leaves. Ours are built so that they don't.
We work embedded in your teams, on the process itself, in monthly sprints. Leaders are coached, the people who run the process do the improving, and the training happens inside the work. We look at the whole flow, shop floor and supply chain together, because a quality problem in assembly usually has a root somewhere upstream.
How we work with youWhat would two or three days in one of your processes show you?
Pick one process that worries you. We spend two to three days in it with the people who run it. On the last day you see three things:
- The process as it really runs today
- Where the time and effort go
- An outline plan to improve it
In most processes we look at, 10 to 20% of the time or effort turns out to be removable.
See what the diagnostic coversHow mature is your supply chain?
Ten questions, about five minutes. You get a score out of 50, a breakdown across ten dimensions from visibility to resilience, and the three areas to work on first.
Take the assessment
Led by a practitioner
Supply Chain Future is led by Elizabeth Coggins-Hill, a former Kaizen Executive Consultant at the Kaizen Institute with about 25 years in Lean, Kaizen and continuous improvement, and senior European roles in supply chain and logistics.
About and methodStart with one problem
Bring one problem or issue you are facing in production, supply chain or administration. In 30 minutes we will tell you how we would approach it and whether a diagnostic makes sense.