Manufacturing

Our consultant coaches have helped clients to:

• Improve productivity of pipe manufacturing going from four pipes per hour to 16
• Reduce set up times on plastic moulding machines going from 4hrs 20min to 20min - then replicating across 20 more machines
• Design lean layout resulting in 36,000 sq ft of saved space
• Implement an 850 line finished goods kanban

• Eliminate defects on powder paint process
• Achieve inventory reduction of safety glove production
• Establish one piece flow on 160 assembly line items.

• Reduce credit note costs from 10% of sales to 3%
• Establish one piece flow on electrical motor assembly
• Set up raw material kanbans releasing 1980 sq ft of floor space
• Reduce set-up times on machining centres
• Reduce set-up times on CNC lathes
• Reduced variability through standardised work using six sigma approach