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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 Operations and Production Management experience across a range of sectors from Food through to Electronic manufacturing 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,

Firstly we listen to and we observe what you do.

We are looking to find the frustrations you and your manufacturing teams experience every day, these are the frustrations that waste time and effort. The frustrations that you share with colleagues, family, friends, the frustrations that are not being resolved.

It might be the frustration of waiting for and chasing delivery of parts, getting specs or information corrected, checking the quality of items.

It could be the frustration of not having enough qualified staff or taking the call from sales or the customer chasing their orders.

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 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.

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.

Don’t Take Our Word For It – Read What Our Clients Say

The Levantar team provide a fantastic service that not only looks at the basic lean principles of manufacturing but helped to dig much deeper to identify underlying issues across the business and how to improve them. Neil and Mark make an exceptional team who are really easy to work with and are able to challenge and develop individuals from the shop-floor to the management team. I highly recommend them.Garth Williams Software Manager ABG International Ltd

Garth Ellie Williams

06:27 17 May 18

Levantar really do know what they are doing, they spent around a year working with a company I work for and the improvement made were beyond words. Daily working life became much more bearable and I was able to improve myself in my job role due to this. They are very honest and will help wherever they can using the knowledge they have learnt through the years. I highly recommend Mark and Neil and would happily work with them again.

Daisy Lowe

08:55 12 Apr 18

Levantar were with us for 7 months during which time they introduced many changes to existing processes as well as new ones to move on with. During this time they learned our way of working before making any additions/alterations or changes, they listened to everyone who had comments, observations or ideas and took all of these on board.They left us a far more efficient group than when they arrived with new ideas an projects to carry forward to continue the improvements. Overall Mark & Neil are approachable, attentive & have much knowledge & experience to draw from in order to improve a business in so many ways.Highly recommended !

Malcolm Savage

10:16 26 Mar 18

The Levantar team are extremely professional and easy to work with.They were able to converse with all levels of our employees from the people on our shop floor through to the Management team and most importantly get 'buy in'.We are now using many procedures they put in place.I cant rate them highly enough.

Chris Ellis

07:33 03 Apr 18

Taught a combination of logical thinking with outside the box thoughts. Full interaction with all levels in all departments. Great motivation team the learn from and work with.