CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT – Engineer & Consultant Services
We Help People in Manufacturing Improve Processes, Productivity and Profits – Reduce Costs – We Are Continuous Improvement Engineering Consultants
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Continuous Improvement Methodologies.
WE ARE “LEAN ENGINEERS”:- Specialists in improving manufacturing processes, productivity and business efficiency. With ideas and a strategy to reduce costs and improve your business and growth potential.
We help our clients using some of the following methodologies…
6.SIGMA:..Opportunity to Change
- Define- Benefits to the customer and the Benefits to the company.
- Measure- Aspects of the current process and collect relevant data.
- Analyse- The data to verify root causes and ideas for change
- Improve- The process based on data collected.
- Control- The process. Create Standard Operating Procedures.
TIM_WOOD:..The Reduction of Non-Value Waste
- Transportation- Excessive movement of “anything”.
- Inventory- Over Stocked “Stuff” on a shelf collecting dust.
- Motion- Movement of the body. Reaching, Bending, Walking.
- Waiting- People Idle not producing. Waiting for parts or people.
- Over Production- Making too many or too much, parts not required.
- Over Processing- Too many operations in the process. End-to-End.
- Defects- Re-Works, Repairs due to a build, drawing, machining error.
- Resources- People. The 8th Waste… People Idle.
5S:..Organisation of Everything
- 1.SORT. What is Needed, Remove what is not…
- 2.SET. Organise What is Needed.
- 3.SHINE. Tidy Area and Keep Clean.
- 4.STANDARDISE. & Reduce Variation.
- 5.SUSTAIN. Maintain with Process Controls.
- 6.SAFETY. A Place for Everything – Everything in it’s Place
- 7.SELL. Everything today has value to someone.
KANBANS:..Organisation of Materials
- Optimise Stock Levels
- Management of Stock Levels
- Organise & Optimise Pick-Zones
- Controls that Improve Cash Flow
SMED:..Single Minute Exchange of Die
- Reduction of Non-Value
- Reduction of Changeovers
- Reduction of Machine Set Up Time
- Increased Production and Productivity
T.P.M:..Total Planned Maintenance
- To Improve Machine Up-time
- To Keep Machines Hitting Targets
- To Increase Production and Productivity
- To Increase Sales from Global Business Growth
Visual.Management: K.P.I’s: Key_Performance_Indicators
- Production Target / Achieved
- Quality Yield Numbers
- Downtime Pareto
- Rejects Pareto
- The Cost of Rejects
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Services We Offer:
Continuous Improvement Methodologies and Project Management:
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Methodologies:- “The Reduction of Non-Value Waste.” We have been helping companies for over 30 years with small and large projects to improve processes and to reduce costs.
Just recently we helped a company save circa 500k euro with a five minute conversation…
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Atherton Management Services Ltd
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If You Have Any Questions, We Are Happy To Help:
We’ve generated for our clients between £50k and £2.0M per project
For over 30 years we’ve designed and implemented “Business Improvement” Projects.
Please Contact Us, tell us your issues – tell us how you would like to improve your business.
Please Contact Us:- UK – 07300 788 486 – or by E-Mail >>( CONTACT US )<<