We work on the Genba, with your supervisors and your operators, not in a classroom. You can begin the journey of your company's Lean transformation with a report to read, with half an hour of free conversation with one of our consultants, or with an audit in your plant: the path below runs from awareness to full transformation.
Phase 1, on your own
Reports and Tools to diagnose and improve
PDF documents to download and use straight away, on your own lines and with your own numbers, without needing to talk to an expert.
Self assessment
The 10 Killers of Lean
- Self-diagnosis on the ten most frequent causes of failure of lean programmes
- 80% of lean production projects fail and the managers involved never really know why, and perhaps find out only at the end.
- Report for CEOs, COOs and production managers, 15 minutes of reading.
Report
Growing OEE and EBITDA
- 19 pages on the 9 levers that connect OEE and financial results
- OEE goes up, but EBITDA does not follow: where the connection breaks
- The manual that shows which of the 9 levers to pull first, with your own data, to improve OEE.
Phase 2, with a consultant
30 minutes of free consulting
Ideal when you have doubts or questions about your own industrial context.
First contact
An outside opinion on one specific problem
- Thirty minutes on a subject where you feel the need for a qualified opinion from outside your own environment
- A manager can find himself alone with his responsibilities and the choices he has to make; an opinion from outside his own circle of influence is valuable.
- No commitment and nothing to prepare, except a short check list of the questions to ask.
Phase 3, on site with an experienced consultant
Audits on the production site
Two kinds of diagnosis in the field, with your own people: one on the production lines, one on your continuous improvement system.
On-site audit
Technical Discovery Audit
- 4 hours of audit on your lines, with your own people
- We train your team to uncover the hidden improvement potential
- At the end you receive the report with the plan to reach double-digit percentage improvements
On-site audit
Lean Cultural Transformation Audit
- Diagnosis of your current system for involving employees, and how to adapt it to the cultural transformation
- It answers the question: how do I get them to really take part in improvement
- For those who want to work out the effort needed, in resources and hours, to carry through the lean cultural transformation
Phase 4, the performance programmes
Specific programmes to improve performance
The interventions proper: they are measured on results, and they end when your own people can keep the method running without us.
Programme
Productivity +30% in 30 days
- We train your people to gain up to 30% more productivity
- With no investment in labour or equipment
- On the shop floor, not in a classroom and not with PowerPoint presentations alone
Programme
Lean Coaching for Lean systems
- Many Lean programmes bring an initial improvement, then the results fade away
- We build the system together with your people, and they are the ones who get the results
- The change stays in place after the consultant leaves
Phase 5, the people
Programmes for people
Lean is built on teamwork, and on the person who leads the team. Three interventions on the choices that decide everything else: who you put in the right place, how the groups work, how you train your Team Leaders.
Human resources
Selecting the Lean Manager
- How to select the right candidate for the role, scientifically
- One of the two recurring reasons for failure is the wrong Lean Manager
- It avoids spending on transformations that crumble as soon as the consultant walks out
Human resources
Team Building
- Not training your supervisors in team building puts the Lean project at risk
- When groups produce no ideas, the cause is not in the groups
- A path built around your own shop floor context
Human resources
Team Leader Leadership Training
- You promoted your best operators, but nobody taught them how to run a shift
- 12 modules in 12 weeks, 70% on site and 30% online
- The free PDF presents the whole path, module by module
