Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Consulting Services - Rockford Consulting

<BODY aLink=#ffcc00 bgColor=#ffffff link=#990000 vLink=#666666> <TABLE align=left border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=490> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=10></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=122><IMG alt="Computer Integrated Manufacturing Consulting Services" border=0 src="images/hurdle.gif" width="122" height="219"><BR><IMG alt="Computer Integrated Manufacturing Consulting Services" border=0 src="images/notation.gif" width="127" height="541"> <BR><BR><FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Consulting Services Directory</B></FONT> <BR><BR> <A href="manucons.htm"><img src="images/manuf.gif" alt="Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="leancons.htm"><img src="images/lean.gif" alt="Lean Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="agilcons.htm"><img src="images/agile.gif" alt="Computer Integrated Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="cimcons.htm"><img src="images/cim.gif" alt="Computer Integrated Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="cellcons.htm"><img src="images/cell.gif" alt="Cellular Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="erpcons.htm"><img src="images/erp.gif" alt="Cellular Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="distcons.htm"><img src="images/distrib.gif" alt="Distribution" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="purcons.htm"><img src="images/purch.gif" alt="Purchasing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="stracons.htm"><img src="images/strategy.gif" alt="Strategic Planning" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="itcons.htm"><img src="images/infotech.gif" alt="Information Technology" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="supcons.htm"><img src="images/supply.gif" alt="Supply Chain Management" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="outcons.htm"><img src="images/outsour.gif" alt="Outsourcing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <BR><BR><FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>General Information</B></FONT> <BR><BR><A href="about.htm"><img src="images/aboutus.gif" alt="About Us" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="ia.htm"><img src="images/intlalli.gif" alt="International Alliances" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="qualify.htm"><img src="images/qualif.gif" alt="Qualifications" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="articles.htm"><img src="images/articles.gif" alt="Articles" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="succes.htm"><img src="images/success.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="speaking.htm"><img src="images/speak.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="seminars.htm"><img src="images/seminar.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="news.htm"><img src="images/news.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="employop.htm"><img src="images/employ.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="contact.htm"><img src="images/contact.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <BR><BR> <P> </FONT> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/computer-integrated-consulting-services.htm"><B>|</B>Computer Integrated Manufacturing Consulting Services<B>|</B></A> <B></B> </TD> <TD vAlign=top width=10></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=348><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Consulting Services</B></FONT> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Consulting Services</B></FONT> <P> <H4><CENTER><B>Computer Integrated Manufacturing Consulting Services (CIM) Services Offered: </B></CENTER></H4> <P> <font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2"></font> <div align="justify"><font><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2">Whether you are a discrete product or process manufacturer, make-to-order or repetitive, <b>Rockford Consulting Group can help you increase your competitiveness by reducing throughput time, reducing lead times, reducing costs, increasing velocity and capacity, increasing flexibility, reducing inventory, and increasing quality, through selection and implementation of the right manufacturing strategy for your company.</b>  We are a boutique Consulting Services that specializes in manufacturing, distribution and supply chain management.  <b>We serve companies wishing to become world-class performers. We get results!!!</b></font></font></div> <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2"> Our history with Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) systems goes back to the late 1970's when ERP systems were in their infancy. Our founder was part of an organization that supplied one of the major software houses with order entry, inventory planning, and inventory control specifications for its first manufacturing software modules. <br> <br> Later, our base consultants worked with a sister company that was providing specialized machine tools using Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) as its key design and production strategy. These techniques were taken to clients for applying both ERP and CIM to the workplace. As a result we were able to have early, hands-on experience with ERP and CIM applications, and develop successful implementation processes, techniques and methods. <br> <br> As a result, our consultants worked with one of the most advanced computer integrated manufacturing machine tool companies in the U.S. when CIM was in its infancy as a manufacturing strategy. </a><br> <br> The concept was subsequently applied on assignments that demanded fresh and out-of-the-box thinking, driven by market demand for specialized products (customerized), high quality, speed of manufacture, and fast delivery. <br> <br> Since then <b>Rockford Consulting Group has supported companies who wish to achieve world class performance and become market leaders.</b> As companies search for ways to react to intense competitive pressures in the next decade, our consultants offer a unique group of integrated dynamic state-of-the-art services to help clients develop high performance capability. <b>Contact us <a href="contact.htm">(click here) </a>for more information on how we can improve your operations.</b> <br><br>These are the various services and applications we offer as part of our Supply Chain Management consulting portfolio for Computer Integrated Manufacturing efforts:</p> <UL> <LI>Adaptive & Flexible Applications <LI>Cycle-time Reductions <LI>Inventory Reductions <LI>Throughput Time Reductions <li>Business Cycle Time Reduction</li> <LI>Order-to-Ship Lead Time Reductions <LI>Operating Cost Reductions <LI>Fixed Overhead Cost Reductions <LI>Variable Overhead Cost Reductions <LI>Substantial Increases in Capacity/ Throughput <LI>Physical Flow Improvements <LI>Increases in Revenue Generating Floor Space <li>Increased Productivity</li> <li>Increased Business Cycle Throughput</li> <li>Legacy System Upgrades</li> <li>ERP Decision-making Facilitation</li> <li><a href="top_management_facilitation.htm" target="main">Top Management Facilitation</a></li> <li><a href="information_technology_strategic_planning.htm" target="main">Information Technology Strategic Planning</a></li> <li>ERP Evaluation/Effectiveness Analysis</li> <li>ERP Project Failure Recovery</li> <li>Business Process Evaluation/Reengineering</li> <li>Functional Needs Assessments</li> <li>Development of Requirements Definition Document </li> <li>Development of RFP </li> <li>ERP Package Evaluation/Selections</li> <li>Implementation Planning </li> <li>Implementation Facilitation/Navigation</li> <li>Business Process/ERP Integration</li> <li>Systems Hardware Capacity Analysis</li> <li>Project Organization Design</li> <li>Outsource/Inhouse Assessments</li> <li>Logistics/Distribution Systems Evaluation</li> <li>Cost/Benefit Analysis</li> <li>Cross-Functional Team Development/Facilitation</li> <li>Development of IT/Network Architecture </li> <LI>Synchronous Manufacturing Applications <LI>Make-to-Order Applications <LI>Mass Customization Applications <LI>Flexible Cell Design <LI>Factory Design/Simulations <LI>Factory Supervisor/Controller Specifications <LI>Product Configurator Functional Specifications <LI>CAD/CAM Applications <LI>PLC Integration <LI>Supply Chain Modeling/Simulations <LI>Operational Audits <LI>Machine/Equipment Analysis/Specifications <LI>Capacity Planning/Simulation <LI>Materials Logistics Analysis/Simulation <LI>Inventory Planning <LI>Material Handling Design/Simulation <LI>Core Process Identification/Development <LI>Global Sourcing <LI>Team Building <LI>Outsource/Reengineer Assessments <LI>Supplier Partnership Negotiations <LI>Cellular Organization Design <LI>Cell Development/Implementation <LI>Information Technology Evaluations <LI>Concurrent Engineering <LI>Materials Management <LI>Acquisition Analysis & Due Diligence <LI>Project Management <LI>Manufacturing Strategy Development <LI>Cost/Benefits <LI>Work Center Design <LI>Assembly Evaluation/Design <LI>Production Planning <LI>ERP Evaluation/Selection/Implementation <LI>Plant Evaluations <LI>Plant Consolidation <LI>Inventory Planning <LI>Agile Business Process Reengineering <LI>Information Technology Evaluations <LI>Scheduling Development <LI>Concurrent Engineering <LI>MRP Evaluation <LI>Workcell Design <LI>Logistics Analysis/Simulation <LI>Cellular Operator Classification Design <LI>Synchronous Scheduling Development <LI>Synchronous Line Pacing <LI>Operational Assessments <LI>Cellular Operations Development <LI>Project Management </LI></UL> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/computer-integrated-manufacturing-consulting-services.htm"><B>|</B>Computer Integrated Manufacturing Consulting Services<B>|</B></A> </font> <P><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Consulting Information</B></FONT> <P align=justify><font size="2">Rockford Consulting Group is located in Rockford, IL., a city with a substantial manufacturing and machine tool history. An Illinois corporation, our Computer Integrated Manufacturing Consulting Services specialize in purchasing, manufacturing, outsourcing, manufacturing and distribution operations management consulting. As companies search for ways to react to intense competitive pressures in the next decade, our firm offers a unique group of integrated dynamic state-of-the-art services to help clients develop high performance capability. We do not represent any commercial product or service that would be regarded as value-add. We provide high quality work to our clients and do not engage services for which we are not qualified. </P> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> Rockford Consulting Group has a cadre of the best consultants in the world today, providing high quality professionalism through the use of experience and innovation. We subscribe to the Institute of Management Consultants Code of Professional Conduct. We strive to enhance the integrity and image of the consulting profession. All consultants engaged on projects adhere to its principles. Whenever possible we will use consultants certified in their particular specialty area. </P> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> Certification ensures that a specialist has substantial prior experience in their specialty, and their competencies have been tested by the IMC, and verified by a significant number of clients. This assures our clients that we are assigning the highest qualified consultants in the profession. </P> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> Specialists on a client assignment may have up to 30+ years consulting experience. Rockford Consulting Group applies concepts and technologies as the situation warrants, which will result in the ultimate benefit to our clients. We treat technologies as tools in a tool-chest, and use them when they offer practical solutions and achievable results. We believe that each client situation is unique, with its own unique set of solutions. <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">A fresh objective view is always maintained, with no preconceived solutions or fads. We develop practical and implementable manufacturing management solutions, based on decades of experience. Using team-building techniques, we facilitate the process of developing technical and organizational strategies and transform them into executable, and measurable short-term actions. Our clients learn to sustain the process, gaining the ownership required for success. <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">All of our staff have direct, hands-on operational experience in early parts of their careers. Many consultants were engineers, machine operators, manufacturing engineering managers, and purchasing managers. This provides sensitivity and insight to operational issues; i.e., they know how factories and businesses work. <BR> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">We do not employ consultants inexperienced in manufacturing, and/or distribution. Most of our manufacturing consulting staff have international experience, having worked in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Italy, China, or Russia. <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> We work primarily with publicly and privately owned corporations, or divisions of large corporations, from $30mm to $400mm in sales revenue. Our hands-on experience spans a wide range of environments, which reach from business services, consumer products, through high-tech. Industries served are service, automotive, aerospace, durable consumer products, rubber, plastics, electronics, off-road vehicles, and distribution. <BR> <BR><CENTER><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/computer-integrated-manufacturing-consulting-services.htm"><font size="2">Computer Integrated Manufacturing Consulting Services</font></A><font size="2"></font></CENTER><BR> <CENTER><FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Contact Information</B></FONT> </CENTER><BR> <CENTER>Forward Requests For Proposals To:</CENTER><BR><CENTER>Rockford Consulting Group<BR>Century Plaza<BR>Suite 206<BR>7210 East State Street<BR>Rockford, Illinois 61108<BR> Telephone: 815-229-2900<BR>Telefax: 815-229-2612<BR>Toll-free 800-667-7495 </CENTER><BR><CENTER> <FONT color=gray face=arial size=2><A href="mailto: rligus@RockfordConsulting.com">E-mail Richard G. 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