Use Lean Manufacturing as one of your most powerful strategic weapons! Drive down the time it takes to develop and deliver new products, dramatically reduce inventory and manufacturing time. Slash the cost of quality, and win market share. This strategy provides you with the means to do it.
Substantial market share has been lost over years to foreign competitors. No industry is immune. The pressure is on to be the nothing less than the best. But being the best takes serious change and it's no easy matter.
You've got to streamline your factories, systems and organizations, and open up lines of communication. You've got to break down barriers between departments and put an end to the "we've always done it this way" argument. You've got to get your employees highly involved in assuming new responsibilities if you're going to compete in the global markets in the next decade.
Whether you are a discrete product or process manufacturer, make-to-order or repetitive, Rockford
Consulting Group can help you increase your competitiveness by reducing
throughput time, reducing lead times, reducing costs, increasing capacity, increasing
flexibility, reducing inventory, and increasing quality, through selection and implementation
of the right manufacturing strategy for your company. We are a
boutique consulting firm that specializes in manufacturing,
distribution and supply chain management. We serve companies
wishing to become world-class performers. We get results!!!
Please see our Lean Manufacturing success stories:
Lean Manufacturing: Redesigning The Plant for 10 Second Takt Time
Our base consultants were part of an organization that introduced Japanese
manufacturing techniques to the U.S. in the late 1970's-early 80's,
when it was called "Just-in-Time". These techniques were the forefront
of what is now known as lean manufacturing, derived directly from the
Toyota Production System. As a result they were able to have early,
hands-on experience with Just-in-Time and Lean Production applications.
Since then Rockford Consulting Group has supported companies who wish
to achieve world class performance and become market leaders with Lean
Manufacturing strategies. Today, we assist clients in developing and
implementing Lean Manufacturing with demonstrated, substantial results.
Contact us (click here) for more information on how we can improve your operations.
These are the various services and applications we offer, as part of
our Supply Chain Management consulting portfolio, for lean
manufacturing efforts:
- Value stream Mapping
- Cycle-time Reductions
- Inventory Reductions
- Throughput Time Reductions
- Order-to-Ship Lead Time Reductions
- Operating Cost Reductions
- Cycle-time Reductions
- Fixed Overhead Cost Reductions
- Variable Overhead Cost Reductions
- Substantial Increases in Capacity/Throughput
- Physical Flow Improvements
- Increases in Revenue Generating Floor Space
- Factory Design/Simulations
- Lean Manufacturing Applications
- Supply Chain Modeling/Simulations
- Operational Audits
- Machine/Equipment Analysis/Specifications
- Capacity Planning/Simulation
- Materials Logistics Analysis/Simulation
- Inventory Planning
- Process Design/Simulation
- Material Handling Design/Simulation
- Core Process Identification/Development
- Global Sourcing
- Team Building
- Outsource/Reengineer Assessments
- Supplier Partnership Negotiations
- Cellular Organization Design
- Kaizen Blitzes
- Cell Development/Implementation
- Business Process Reengineering
- Information Technology Evaluations
- Visual Scheduling Development
- Concurrent Engineering
- Materials Management
- Acquisition Analysis & Due Diligence
- Project Management
- Manufacturing Strategy
- Lean Manufacturing Applications
- Synchronous Manufacturing Applications
- Make-to-Order Applications
- Mass Customization Applications
- Flexible Cell Design
- Cost/Benefits
- Agile Manufacturing Applications
- Factory Design/Simulations
- Work Center Design
- Assembly Evaluation/Design
- Production Planning
- ERP Evaluation/Selection/Implementation
- Supply Chain Modeling/Simulations
- Operational Audits
- Plant Evaluations
- Plant Consolidation
- Machine/Equipment Analysis/Specifications
- Capacity Planning/Simulation
- Materials Logistics Analysis/Simulation
- Inventory Planning
- Process Planning/Design/Simulation
- Material Handling Design/Simulation
- Core Process Identification/Development
- Outsource/Reengineer Assessments
- Supplier Partnership Negotiations
- Organization Development/Design
- Lean Business Process Reengineering
- Information Technology Evaluations
- Scheduling Development
- Concurrent Engineering
- MRP Evaluation
- Acquisition Analysis & Due Diligence
- Cycle-time Reduction
- Cellular Manufacturing Design
- Logistics Analysis/Simulation
- Kan-ban/Visual Scheduling
- Cellular Operator Classification Design
- Synchronous Scheduling Development
- Synchronous Line Pacing
- Operations Assessments
- Supply Chain Modeling/Simulations
- Cellular Operations
- Materials Management
- Project Management