Consulting Services

Our manufacturing professional will help you assess your needs, and either directly assist or refer you to the right consultant for your issues. Depending on the complexity of the issue, the service will be fee free or at a nominal rate. Custom technical training is also an option available to help upgrade your internal resources.

Sample topics include:

Project Management

• Move

• Expand

• Install equipment/systems

• Modernize/Major repair

• Change

Process Improvement

• Six Sigma

• Kaizen events

• Process Mapping

• Set-Up Reduction – especially presses, assembly areas

• Work Cells – build in flexibility

• Automation – robotics, vision systems

Quality Systems

• ISO 9001:2000

• Guidance to Certification

• Internal Auditor Training

• Internal Audits

• ISO 14000, Environmental

• TS16949, Automotive

Product Development

• Ideation

• Conceptualization

• Part Design – Poka Yok

• Tooling & Automation

• Sourcing

• Start Up & Training

Streamline Manufacturing Process Flow

• Work Flow Analysis

• Plant Layout/Drawings

• Value Stream Mapping

• Lean Manufacturing Techniques

Visual Factory

• 5S

• Production Metrics

Supply Chain and Inventory Management

• Just In Time

• Kanban

• Pull Systems

Constraint Management (Theory of Constraints)

Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering

• Process Development

• Maintenance Management

• Computerized Maintenance Management

• Assessments

• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

• Preventive/Predictive Maintenance

• Time/Activity Studies