Over 25 years of Process Improvement & Project Management
We leverage Lean, Six Sigma and other Process Improvement Principles to elevate your business.
We leverage Lean, Six Sigma and other Process Improvement Principles to elevate your business.
We are Operational Excellence professionals with over 25 years of combined manufacturing and process improvement experience. We believe every company has the “DNA” to become great and achieve Operational Excellence. We've worked for leading consulting firms and global companies such as Nestlé, Kraft Foods and Coca-Cola. We have delivered exceptional results for these organizations and we can do the same for yours. Talk to us today about how we can help streamline your process, eliminate waste and improve productivity.
We help companies become more productive. We leverage Lean, Six Sigma and other process improvement principles to identify performance gaps and deliver sustainable solutions. For rapid solutions, we can conduct Kaizen Events on focused areas. For more comprehensive solutions, our team can perform a complete process assessment with road map to eliminate losses and control measures to sustain improvements.
Get leading consulting services at the fraction of other providers. We keep our operating cost low so we are competitive in our pricing. We are a certified minority-owned business through NMSDC with regional and national capabilities. Our focus is to help you reduce costs, eliminate waste, increase productivity and deliver high quality products and services. We serve industries in the following but not limited to: Consumer Goods, Industrial, Healthcare and Government.
We provide lean, six sigma “green belt” and other continuous improvement training to help establish or enhance your team’s process improvement capabilities.
We facilitate a rapid problem-solving event (5 days) aim to accelerate process improvement through the structured approach of DMAIC.
Through the use of standard operating procedures (SOP), one-point lessons (OPL), Home Settings, 5S or other standards, we determine best practices that will improve efficiency and ensure consistency.
We can help establish and train onsite personnel to become Focus Improvement Teams. The team will be trained to identify losses, implement improvements and deliver results on PQCDSM (Production, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety and Morale).
We leverage SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Dies) to significantly reduce the time it takes to complete equipment changeovers.
We assess the capability of your process and determine the key losses affecting your bottom line. We will provide the road map to eliminate losses and control measures to sustain improvements.
Situation: Due to the manual packaging process, the production line had a high number of shop floor employees.
Task: Convert packaging process to become automated
Action: Redesigned critical packaging equipment to become automated. Established equipment centerlines, home settings, standard operating procedures and routine checklists.
Results: Production output was increased by 25% and headcount was reduced by 50%. Over $10,000,000 annual savings.
Situation: Due to inconsistent oven operation, nearly 25% of the cookies were being baked outside of height specification. The inconsistent height disrupted downstream operation.
Task: Determine root cause(s) driving the height variation.
Action: Performed a series of DOEs to understand oven performance and assess potential factors.
Results: Critical factors were determined which led to redesign of oven baking profile. Defects for height variation was reduced to less than 1%. $417,900 annual savings.
Situation: Filler changeover time was taking an additional 30 minutes than standard.
Task: Conduct SMED event to streamline changeover
Action: Determined internal steps that can be done external of changeover, utilized a jig to reduce step up time and standardized changeover process through a checklist.
Results: Changeover time was reduced by 66% and first hour efficiency was increased from 37% to 86%.