Designing a better factory: automotive suppliers producing commodity products need to win on cost and scale, find new niches, and go beyond the automotive core. And those in highly differentiated segments need to lead performance innovation and find a new path into the future (Deloitte). … [Read more...] about Future Factory Workshop for Automotive Japan
Defining next steps on its Lean Journey the team in Utah benchmarks its operation against world-class references, assessing maturity level and identifying next improvement opportunities. The program is part of the "Fresh Eyes Review" initiative for the world's leading Automotive Safety … [Read more...] about Operations Diagnostics for Automotive Safety
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. Furthermore, the 'fresh-eyes review' uncovered hidden potentials allowing to improve … [Read more...] about Automotive Safety: Audits for Future Factory Design
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). The audit covered processes in five sites for aseptic filling of syringes and … [Read more...] about Pharma: Lean Audit for Operations Improvement
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. The project included mapping the manufacturing-to-logistics value stream, assessing process performance along … [Read more...] about Sporting Goods: Operational Due Diligence