Unlock greater profit margins by improving speed, quality & costs.
You don’t have to choose between higher quality, faster results, and lower costs. Lean management is a proven model to turbocharge operations in any industry and give you a sustainable competitive advantage.
Improve your operational excellence in 4 simple steps.
Assess
Begin with a data-driven strategic assessment to identify issues, opportunities, and what the customer values most. Using Value Stream Mapping, we’ll visualize workflows and identify waste then give you a 12-month improvement plan for charting quick wins and long-term results.
Improve
Take immediate action with hands-on workshops called Kaizens to help you eliminate bottlenecks and improve processes. These workshops help you standardize work and create sections in a training playbook that document best practices for your team. We’ll use lean management approaches like 5S and Pull Systems to improve efficiency and reduce overproduction.
Optimize
Level up performance with ongoing coaching and training. We will be there every step to help you track KPIs, evaluate performance, and optimize your approach.
Scale
Create standardized & scalable systems with our documented best practices and team training. Then keep accelerating growth by repeating the continuous improvement process.
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Start with leaders.
Your management approach is the foundation for creating value and operational excellence. We coach your leaders with an emphasis on leadership presence, active observation, and genuine engagement with the teams they lead. You have to empower input and listen to the people doing the work. This sets the stage to build a culture of respect, accountability, and learning by doing.
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Begin the cycle of continuous improvement.
A good assessment and strategy deployment is a compass that shows you where we’re going. The Value Stream Analysis and improvement planning tell you how we will get there. The Kaizen workshops are launchpads for team-driven continuous improvement. The culture of daily improvement is a routine that fosters ongoing growth and success.
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Relentlessly eliminate waste.
We identify waste and then relentlessly eliminate it because it holds us back from our full potential. Eight of the most common inefficiencies we target are:
- Transportation – Unnecessary movement of materials, products, or information.
- Inventory – Excess stock or materials that aren’t needed immediately.
- Motion – Unnecessary movement of people that doesn’t add value.
- Waiting – Idle time when processes or people are delayed.
- Overproduction – Producing more than needed or too soon.
- Overprocessing – Doing more work than required or using excessive steps.
- Defects – Errors or rework that require fixing, leading to wasted resources.
- Skills (or Unused Talent) – Not fully utilizing employees’ skills, ideas, or creativity.
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Implement the right systems.
We help you create, implement, and optimize the right best practices for your company’s unique needs, but most importantly, we document these standards in a training playbook. Three key elements of this management system are:
- Standard Work defines the best-known method for performing a task to ensure repeatability, efficiency, and quality.
- Leader Standard Work establishes repeatable, structured routines for leaders to drive continuous improvement, accountability, and team engagement.
- Visual Control uses charts, kanban boards, dashboards, and workplace organization (5S) to provide real-time visibility into performance.
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Build on proven fundamentals.
Maximum efficiency isn’t just about boosting productivity. It also requires prioritizing customer satisfaction. From Takt Time to Voice of the Customer, these fundamentals streamline operations and create a winning competitive advantage.
- Work to Takt Time ensures work is paced to meet customer demand efficiently.
- One-Piece Flow streamlines processes into a smooth, continuous workflow that is faster, minimizes waste, and improves quality.
- Pull System optimizes work by only producing what’s needed, when needed, and without forecasts.
- Setup Reduction minimizes transition time between tasks, which increases productivity, minimizes downtime, and improves flexibility.
- Total Productive Maintenance maximizes the efficiency and reliability of equipment by involving everyone in maintenance.
- 5S Methodology is a workplace organization system designed to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and create a clean, safe, and high-performance work environment. It consists of five steps: Sort (eliminate), Set in Order (organize), Shine (inspect), Standardization (best practices), and Sustain (continuous improvement).
- Voice of the Customer shapes operations, products, and services around the customer’s needs, wants, expectations, and perceptions.
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Aim at the right targets.
It is important to set the right goals and measure the right KPIs. We help you measure productivity, quality, margins, customer service, safety, working capital, and more.
6 ways we will take your operations to the next level.
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