Process Optimization

Your goal is to streamline and improve the processes within your facilities to optimize your business operations. Our Lean Six Sigma specialists have experience in varied industries, applying continuous improvement principles and process enhancements to existing and new procedures. We help you improve operational agility, quality, cost and customer satisfaction.

We apply broad knowledge of manufacturing and transactional business operations to make measurable improvements across all areas of your business. Extensive implementation experience does more than boost efficiency and effectiveness of your operations; we prepare you to maintain such advancements, measurably improving overall operational performance.

Direct Benefits for Your Investment

Whether your needs are in manufacturing, logistics, food service, pharmaceutical, healthcare or any other business where efficient operations are important, our Lean Six Sigma team helps you attain your next level of accomplishment. A sampling of results:

• Weeklong training sessions at three repair facilities yielded a 65% reduction in factory space, 37% lower headcount, improved ergonomics, 87% lower work in progress inventory, and 84% cut in product travel.
• An independent review of a new manufacturing facility design led to client savings of $6 million through building size reductions, a new manufacturing strategy and a new factory layout that connected processes.
• A yearlong program evaluating operations in 16 manufacturing buildings stretching across a city block produced more than $30 million in facility construction cost savings, along with a 92% reduction in material handling staff, an 89% cut in lead times, a 122% increase in effective hours of production, a 40% gain in overall equipment effectiveness, a 78% reduction in needed manufacturing floor space, and a 46% cut in machine part production costs. The team also reduced machine setup time from 2.5 hours to less than 30 seconds.
• Applying Lean Six Sigma principles to the design and construction of a new manufacturing facility led to a 65% reduction in headcount and a 95% lower work in progress inventory. It also reduced lead time from nine days to 2.5 hours.

Apply Lean Six Sigma Principles to Varied Operations

Among the services we provide:

• Automation and robotics
• Automated material handling
• Defect reduction and statistical analysis
• Industrial engineering
• Lean facility design
• Lean process design and line balancing
• Master planning
• Production line design and demand flow technology (DFT)
• Quality systems
• Supply chain and logistics
• Training