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<TD vAlign=top width=348><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Mass Customization Consulting</B></FONT>
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<H4><CENTER><B>Mass Customization Consulting Services Offered: </B></CENTER></H4>
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<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, Rockford
Consulting Group can help you increase your competitiveness by reducing
throughput time, reducing lead times, increasing velocity and capacity,
increasing flexibility, reducing inventory, through selection and implementation
of the right manufacturing strategy for your company. We are a
boutique Consulting that specializes in manufacturing,
distribution and supply chain management. We serve companies
wishing to become world-class performers. <b>We get results!!!</b></font></font></div>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2">Mr.
Richard G. Ligus CMC CPCM was one of the first consultants in the U.S.
to introduce the concept of enterprise agility at the 1990
International Manufacturing Technology Conference in Chicago, IL. The
article can be found on this website at the following page: <a
href="physart.htm">Regaining World Market Share Starts With
Getting Physical....and Agile.<!--Mass Customization Consulting--></a><br>
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The concept was derived from an multi-national assignment that demanded
fresh and out-of-the-box thinking, driven by market demand for
specialized products (customerized), high volume, high quality, speed of
manufacture, and fast delivery. <br>
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Since then Rockford Consulting Group has supported companies who wish
to achieve world class performance and become market leaders. 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. These are the various services and applications
we offer as part of our Supply Chain Management consulting portfolio
for Mass Customization efforts:<br>
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<LI>Adaptive & Flexible Applications
<LI>Cycle-time Reductions
<LI>Inventory Reductions
<LI>Throughput Time Reductions
<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>Mass Customization Applications
<LI>Synchronous Manufacturing Applications
<LI>Make-to-Order Applications
<LI>Mass Customization Applications
<LI>Flexible Cell Design
<LI>Factory Design/Simulations
<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>Kaizen Blitzes
<LI>Cell Development/Implementation
<LI>Information Technology Evaluations
<LI>Visual Scheduling Development
<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>Kan-ban/Visual Scheduling
<LI>Cellular Operator Classification Design
<LI>Synchronous Scheduling Development
<LI>Synchronous Line Pacing
<LI>Operational Assessments
<LI>Cellular Operations Development
<LI>Materials Management
<LI>Project Management </LI></UL>
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<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 Mass Customization Consulting specializes 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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<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. Ligus CMC CPCM at: rligus@RockfordConsulting.com</A></B></CENTER><BR><CENTER><FONT SIZE=2>©1995 Rockford Consulting Group, Ltd.<BR></FONT><P></CENTER><p></P></UL></B></FONT></DIR></UL>
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