Lean Management - Develop Manufacturing Leaders, Transform Productivity

Helping Manufacturers Develop 
Leaders & Transform Outputs. 

Helping your Operations Teams to
Stabilise and Optimise their performance.
Guiding them on a path of People & Process
Improvement to deliver your Growth plans.

Do These Sound Familiar? If so Lean Management WILL Help.

• 240 year old business learnt how to improve an assembly process, doubling the output.
• An electrical assembly team slashed the manufacturing time for items from 10 days to 2 days and caught up with late orders and removed overtime panics.
• Leading Electronics manufacturer discovered how, using lean manufacturing to increase machines made a month from 7 to 12 in just 3 months. 
• CNC and Welding metal team improved changeovers, gaining 2 hours per day, per CNC machine.
• Fabrication company uncovered improvements to Scheduling & Procurement, increasing output by 60% in just 3 weeks.  
• Leading machinery manufacturer with a three month backlog needed urgent interim management cover. Support was provided, a new management team recruited and a Quality focus initiated. Record sales & revenues were the result. 
• Test & Commission process re-organised, enabling a company to deliver an increase of 33% in the whole factory output in just 2 months. 
• Global digital machinery manufacturer lost 3 manufacturing leaders in 2 weeks. We stepped in, listened, observed, provided strategic direction. Order lead time was cut by 54% and sales were able to introduce new products and revenue increased to record levels.  

The Lean Management and Business Process Improvement Services (below) we offer to organisations are for those who need more from their Operational Teams and would like guidance in how to;

• STABLISE – Prevent Your Operations Output From Getting Worse; Make Them Predictable
• OPTIMISE – Making Your Operations As Productive & Efficient As Possible
• GROWTH – Align Your Operations Team With Your Business Growth Target

We’ve learnt that in many organisations the Operations Teams struggle to deliver the Sales Targets.
We’ve developed Operations Management processes and services that helps firms to deliver quality work, faster, on time, at lower costs whilst overcoming the skills challenges many face in 2024 and beyond.

We’re able to advise and implement Strategic plans for Operations departments and production staff.

We ensure your Marketing/Sales and Operational Strategies are aligned in the long term.

Giving you the reassurance that your Operations team can deliver now and grow with your business plans.

We’ve also delivered tactical short term advances to manufacturing teams, enabling companies to respond to short term challenges.

Leeds University – Lean Management Workshops

Since 2010 we’ve taken well over 4,000 people through our Lean Manufacturing and Management workshop thanks to the Operations and Supply Chain team at Leeds University Business School.

Lean Management Consulting – Transform

Read the comments below, do you hear these or similar in your organisation?

They’re the conversations we hear every day when we are out and about starting with clients. Clients who are discovering the benefits of Lean Management.

• “Can we get this work done by close of play tomorrow?”
• “We’ve been asked to try and speed up our processes, is that possible?”
• “We need to ship this out by Thursday, otherwise there are penalties, it’s already two weeks late”
• “How long? If this doesn’t go by the end of the month we miss our targets”
• “The customer will go elsewhere if it takes too long..”
• “When will this part be in? we need it today, can you call the supplier?”

• “We can’t keep passing the prices rise on, what else can we do…? “
• “Our competitors have a lead time of 3 weeks can we do better?” 
• “We need to do overtime to try and catch the time up, the back log is building again..” 
• “Why can’t we recruit enough people? “
• “Can need to get more skills in our team to cope with the future..”
• “Our prices are going up we need to do something about them…”

Recognise any of them? sound familiar?

You might have 1,2,3 or more similar conversations every day or week. Conversations which take up more and more of your time. Conversations about not having enough people, skills, late deliveries or price rises you can’t offset.

The challenge of getting work completed, reports, and orders delivered On-Time, Every Time, is one we know can be solved, we know how to help you do this. 

The challenge of understanding how you can get more skills, more of the skills you need into your business is one we know how to help with as well.

The challenge of reducing and understanding costs is the one Lean was designed for.  

Lean Management techniques combined with solid Operational Management training will give you the tools to deliver On-Time, Every Time. 

It also makes sense that after you’ve learnt to deliver On-Time, Every Time, the next step is to grow your business.

Deliver more using the techniques you’ve embedded in your lean management organisation. 

Deliver more with the skills you’ve embedded in your lean, agile, responsive organisation.  

You run a successful business, a department, site. Your product and services are liked by your customers, they return time and again to buy from you. They’ve been loyal over many months and years; they recommend your products and service to others, who like what they see.

Staff have grown as your business has grown. They’ve risen to the challenges, taken on new projects and roles, developed new products and solutions with you.

There is still that one challenge you have; a challenge you and many successful leaders have.

A challenge that you know you if you could just get it under control, the business, the team would deliver more.  

Every time you think it’s sorted, it comes back ticking away, counting down.

You believe that if you could just solve this you’d have a business, department, site which is in control.

It’s THE challenge we see and hear about in every project we are asked to consider.

It’s the challenge that we know how to solve, a challenge there is a solution for.

Using our Lean Management techniques combined with our extensive knowledge of Operational Management we know we can help you to finally sort it.  

The Challenge we see and hear, is the challenge of  TIME; delivering On-Time, Every Time.