Navigating to Results
We enable clients to reach their full potential with targeted performance improvements, deep diagnostics, and structured training. Through systematic reduction of the three losses – waste, strain, variability – we help manufacturers and service providers measurably improve speed, quality, and profitability. If your ambition is world-class, then you found the right partner to power your journey with performance-improvement and capability-development programs.
Performance Improvement
We offer 4 targeted performance improvement programs with focus on speed, quality, cost, and sustainability:
Capability Development
We also offer 4 capability development courses to build required skills to sustain improvements in the long run:
Why Leanmap?
Delivering Lasting Improvements
- Deep knowledge and expertise to deliver Agile Lean Sigma transformations and systematic performance improvements.
- Support client teams in the role of an advisor and coach ("light touch") or navigator and interim manager ("strong touch").
- Hands-on approach, seamlessly integrating with your team to co-invent solutions, jointly remove barriers and drive results.
- Full flexibility to adjust the level of support: scale-up when more influence is required and ramp-down as capability matures.
- Passion; we love what we do, working with people to solve problems, create a better future for customers, employees, owners.
Our Services
Solutions, Insights, Trainings, Tools
Consulting
Delivering Performance Improvements: Clients profit from our strategic thinking, proven concepts, and innovative solutions that not only improve results, but move them ahead of competitors.
Facts & Figures
Supporting Clients Worldwide Since 2005
Projects & Impact
Improving Performance Cross-Industry
Semiconductors: Cost-per-Move Reduction
Cost Reduction Program (CRP) for the second largest semiconductor company to optimize Cost-Per-Move (CPM) through demand-driven adaptive maintenance, systematic problem solving, and rigorous performance management.
Energy: More Reliable Heat for More People
Lean Transformation Program (LTP) for Kvitebjørn Varme to realize its vision to become Norway’s most reliable energy-supplier, delivering more heat, more consistently to more people.
Plastic Film: Path to World Class Manufacturing
Lean Transformation Program (LTP) for an European polyethylene packaging film producer to bring plants on path to world-class manufacturing (WCM), while boosting yield and productivity.
Ship Service: Performance Improvement Program
Performance Improvement Program (PIP) for the world’s largest ship supplier to improve operating efficiency of regional centers in Europe, Far East, Middle East, and USA.
Rock Tools: Lean Development Cuts Time-to-Market
Lean Product Development (LPD) for a major supplier to the mining and construction industries, reducing time-to-market (TTM) of new developments by 35% within 2 years.
Automotive Safety: Audits for Future Factory Design
Lean Operations Diagnostics (LOD) for the largest automotive safety supplier, assessing main manufacturing sites and development centers to deliver critical inputs for the factory-of-the-future design.
Beverage Production: PDCA Cuts Non-Quality Costs
Quality Excellence Program (QEP) for a global ingredients manufacturer to reduce first-time-incorrect (FTI) rate of product mixes delivered to the world’s largest non-alcoholic beverage companies.
Pharma: Lean Audit for Operations Improvement
Lean Operations Diagnostics (LOD) for a European pharma company to assess manufacturing maturity, while identifying improvement potentials for throughput, yield, flexibility, overall factory efficiency (OFE).
Food Flavors: Journey to World-Class Efficiency
Lean Transformation Program (LTP) for Givaudan, the largest food flavor and fragrance company, to design and implement the global Lean program, “Journey to world-class efficiency”.
Power Electronics: Complexity Cost Reduction
Cost Reduction Program (CRP) for Eltek, a global electric power conversion specialist, to reduce the cost base by optimizing interfaces between engineering, operations, and sales.
Waste Recycling: Lean Sorting & Processing
Lean Transformation Program (LTP) for Norway’s leading environmental services provider to boost operational efficiency by applying Lean management principles to the seven largest processing plants.
Sporting Goods: Operational Due Diligence
Lean Operations Diagnostics (LOD) for private equity as part of the pre-acquisition due diligence program with focus on four European factories to identify value-creation opportunities.
Industrial Manufacturing: Continuous Improvement
Lean Transformation Program (LTP) for Franke, an industrial manufacturer, to bring 13 factories onto a continuous improvement track, gaining 6% productivity annually to achieve margin-targets.
Transport & Logistics: Cost Reduction Program
Cost Reduction Program (CRP) for a large industrial multinational with focus on transport and logistics, delivering $15 million annualized savings within the first 4 months.
Energy Metering: Quality Program Cuts Cost
Quality Excellence Program (QEP) for a global energy metering company with focus on product reliability to reduce field-failure rates and costs for warranty and repair.
Diesel Engines: Warranty Cost Reduction
Quality Excellence Program (QEP) for large engine manufacturer to improve process capability and product reliability, resulting in $59 million warranty cost reductions in 7 months.
Military Vehicles: Lean Assembly Shortens Lead-Time
Lean Transformation Program (LTP) for the leading truck manufacturer to resolve constraints in assembly and logistics, meeting critical deliveries of military vehicles to the front-line.
Marine Electronics: Lean Management Turnaround
Lean Transformation Program (LTP) to boost manufacturing output of the leading marine-electronics company by de-bottlenecking its main factory in Mexico and rationalizing the manufacturing footprint.
Airline Catering: Labor Productivity Cost Reduction
Cost Reduction Program (CRP) for global airline caterer to meet top-down profitability target by transforming seven factories with focus on planning, manning, manufacturing and logistics.
Household Appliances: Factory Consolidation
Cost Reduction Program (CRP) for a household appliance manufacturer in China to significantly reduce operating costs by merging two assembly factories, right-sizing the manufacturing footprint.
Our Clients
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