Manufacturing Awareness Limited will work with your senior management
team to help you to develop a vision and strategy for making
extraordinary gains in your business.
We can then help you to
identify
and map the key processes and information flows within the whole business.
We will
then help you to identify areas of 'waste' and recommend methods of
introducing business improvement techniques which will eliminate that waste and provide
bottom line benefits to your business.
Typical business improvement projects that have been undertaken include:-
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Re-organising a manufacturing cell resulting in
a 98% reduction in work in progress, a 40% reduction in headcount, a
10% reduction in floor space and a 67% increase in parts per man per
hour.
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Reduction in the number of suppliers from over
1000 to less than 200 during a two year period, whilst developing
real supplier partnerships.
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A reduction in inventory of UK£ 4 million
(approx US$ 6 million) during a twelve month period.
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Reducing a typical machine set up from in
excess of 90 minutes to 21 minutes.
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Introducing electronic B2B purchasing systems.
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Reducing lead times for an internal process
from 238 minutes to 37 minutes
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Training and mentoring employees at all levels
- from shop floor to executives - in the concepts of Lean Thinking.
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Setting up from a green field site, a truly
World Class plant in Asia.
Please contact us for a
confidential discussion if you feel that we can help.
