Our methods are designed to strategically engage the client and align the business requirements with the business improvement methodology. There are many consultants in the market that advocate the use of one improvement method to solve all of your organisational problems. Our experience has shown us that for specific situations one improvement method may be better than another.
- Traditional Six Sigma has a focus on quality, refining the production process to eliminate unwanted variations or defects. Lean Manufacturing has a primary emphasis on process efficiency and speed.
- Six Sigma is ideal for scientific or numbers based organisation including manufacturing, industrial, petrochemical, packaging and filling
- Lean Six Sigma offers a blend of both business improvement methodologies and tools under one unified umbrella. This contemporary approach provides users with a very practical and powerful means of implementing business improvement across all aspects of their organisation.
- Lean sigma is ideal for finance, banking, insurance manufacturing and transportation sectors.
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a hierarchy of metrics which focus on how effectively a manufacturing operation is utilized. The results are stated in a generic form which allows comparison between manufacturing units in differing industries.OEE measurement is also commonly used as a key performance indicator (KPI) in conjunction with lean manufacturing efforts to provide an indicator of success.
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)is a new way of looking at maintenance, or conversely, a reversion to old ways but on a mass scale. In TPM the machine operator performs much, and sometimes all, of the routine maintenance tasks themselves. This auto-maintenance ensures appropriate and effective efforts are expended since the machine is wholly the domain of one person or team. TPM is a critical adjunct to lean manufacturing
- 5S program is usually a part of,and the key component of establishing a visual workplace and are both a part of “Kaizen”, a system of continual improvement, which is a component of lean manufacturing.