CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT – Consultants Engineers
We Help People in Manufacturing Improve Processes Productivity Profits and Reduce Costs
We Are Continuous Improvement Engineering Consultants: We Can Help You Implement Change.
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What Is Continuous Improvement Methodology In Business
- Reduction of Non-Value Waste
- Reduction of Rejects, Scrap and Costs
- Reduction of Time and Production Motion
- Apply SIMPLE – Standardisation – Reduce Variation
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING:
- IE; Deals with “CHANGE” optimisation of complex processes or systems: Development – Improvement – Implementation – Process Control – Standardisation…
- IE; Deals with Factory Layouts – Process Methods – Product Build Time – Product Quality – Tooling Issues – Machine Down Time – Scrap and Rejects – Materials Organisation – Manning Levels – Written Procedures – Energy Management – Analysis and Synthetics of Production Data..
What Is Lean Methodology
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.
- 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.
- SORT. What is needed, Remove what is not needed.
- SET. Organise What is Needed.
- SHINE. Tidy Area and Keep Clean.
- STANDARDISE. Organise Process, Reduce Variation.
- SUSTAIN. Maintain with Process Controls.
- SAFETY. A Place for Everything – Everything in it’s Place
- SELL. Everything today has value to someone.
Kanban: Organisation_of_Materials:- Create ORDER from DISORDER.
- 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:- Prevention not Repair.
- 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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We Can Help You With:
Continuous Improvement Methodologies and Project Management:
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT:- “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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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 “Continuous Improvement” Projects.
Atherton Management Services Ltd: We help people in business improve their business.
Please Contact Us, tell us your issues – tell us how you would like to improve your business.
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