Lean Manufacturing Consultants
If your business needs to
- Get Orders Out On Time,
- Get Production & Operations Work Completed Faster For Customers,
- Investigate How Production Costs Can Be Controlled and Reduced
- Overcome the Skills Shortages you face
Then we know our Lean Manufacturing Consultant service working with your managers and production teams will provide the answers to your challenges.
Our lean manufacturing consultants have considerable improvement experience in Operations and Production Management across a range of sectors from Chilled Food through to Electronic Assembly and Fabrication.
All of our consultants have experience in directly managing factories and manufacturing plants at Operations Director level. They have “walked the walk” of managing factories and teams to deliver products every day to demanding customers.
Working with lean manufacturing consultants, from Levantar, your business could achieve MORE;
We know that any improvement work has to go hand in hand with your daily operations, “getting orders out”.
We know that you right now, you might not know how to make the time available to implement these lean manufacturing tools and techniques. You haven’t got time to do 5 day courses off-site away from work.
You can’t release staff but you know you need to deal with skill shortages, part shortages, you need to get more out.
Going forward you’ll learn how to deliver your everyday targets and improvement work, at the same time.
If you want to know about our wider Manufacturing Consulting, which covers areas such as Manufacturing Scheduling, Planning, HR, MRP, ERP etc then please click on this link Manufacturing Consultants
Lean Manufacturing Consultants - What Do We Do?
Firstly we listen to and observe what you do.
We are looking to find the frustrations you and your manufacturing teams experience every day, these are the things that waste time and effort.
It might be the frustration of waiting for or chasing delivery of parts; it could be the frustration of getting specifications checked or information corrected, or waiting whilst someone checks the quality of parts made.
It could be the frustration of not having enough qualified staff to do the work or waiting whilst the warehouse pick the parts.
It could be the frustration of taking that call from the sales team, chasing yet another customer order.
It could be any of the frustrations that you share with colleagues, family, friends, the frustrations that are not being resolved.
Taking these we use the most suitable lean manufacturing tools and techniques to find the root causes of these frustrations.
Then, with you and your teams, using the lean tools and a Productivity Improvement Framework we set about to put in place solutions.
Solutions that are embedded and sustained in the long term.
Our lean manufacturing consultants will always tailor the service and advice to suit your situation, to improve your specific business needs.
We go to the place of work and observe it
In summary our lean manufacturing consulting approach involves;
- Going to the place of work and observe, listen; we call this Gemba.
- Identifying the 8 Wastes of Lean through finding the Frustrations. This is done via Value Stream Mapping.
- Drawing up a Productivity Improvement Framework (Plan, Do Check, Act) with timescales
- Introducing Improvement projects
- Provide training and coaching for staff to get them through the improvements
- Monitor your results and achieve sustained performance.
Lean Manufacturing Consultants - How Do You Get Hold Of Us?
Simply Phone Mark on 01904 277007 or email him mark@levantar.co.uk.
Alternatively fill in the form below and he’ll get back to you.
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Lean Manufacturing Consulting – Sectors We Work In
Our Lean Manufacturing Consultants work across the UK and Europe in many sectors of manufacturing;
- Oil and Gas
- Electrical Assembly
- Metal Fabrication
- Machinery Assembly
- Food & Drink
- FMCG
- Furniture
- Automotive
As you might imagine every client we work with has different needs and we flex our service to suit your specific needs; to ensure success today and in the future.
What Do Our Lean Manufacturing Consultants deliver?
Our Lean Manufacturing Consultants have delivered significant changes for our clients; benefits that are SUSTAINED. Our clients have found that they have when delivered correctly; benefits that include;
- better On-Time Delivery; clients have gone from 90% LATE to 95% ON TIME delivery.
- increased Capacity; Our clients have increased their capacity by over 20%, with no extra machines, software or people required.
- improved Profits; If you could make 20% more without any extra staff or machines making higher profits is the result.
- greater Employee Engagement; Removing the frustrations you and everyone else has every day makes the workplace a better place to be.
Delivering these benefits means that many of our clients have used Lean Manufacturing Consultants to explore strategic options and new possibilities for business growth.
Read Our Lean Manufacturing Blog for our latest insights to productivity and efficiency improvement in factories and operations management.
Go here for our general Lean Improvement Stories can be found here.
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What do Lean Manufacturing Consultants do?
Lean Manufacturing Consultants help business clients deliver orders faster by cutting down on wasted time and effort of everyone involved in Manufacturing. A Lean Manufacturing Consulting company should be able to advise on how the operational department is run and its long-term goals. A Lean Manufacturing Consultancy should be able to make recommendations and develop programs to improve overall processes; helping you to reduce your lead times and ultimately deliver On-Time, Every Time.
What Would I Find the Best Example of Lean Manufacturing?
Toyota are probably the most famous global brand who use Lean techniques. They have used the principles in the manufacturing of cars since the 1940s, These days many organisations in the automotive industry and across many Manufacturing sectors use the tools and techniques to maintain their supply chains.
What Skills & Experience Should a Lean Manufacturing Consultant Have?
A good Lean Manufacturing consultant will be experienced in both manufacturing and administration, office departments. Why?
Many Lean manufacturing improvement projects will, at some point include those who provide work to operations; the Procurement team, Logistics, QA etc. They will have good mathematical knowledge and an excellent understanding of general engineering principles. They will understand how to build rapport with teams and individuals, nurturing relationships with both. They will have communication skills, able to break down tools and techniques so that they can be understood by all and applied to your business.