Here you find the milestones and successes our clients have achieved with our help, and the insights we have gained by working with them.
Change Management Plan: 7 Success Factors and 7 Failure Reasons
Planning guide and management framework for leaders to successfully execute and sustain change, preventing 7 factors that cause 70% programs and projects to fail.
Top-3 Customer Service Metrics to Achieve Customer Service Excellence
No, it is not just on-time delivery! Consistent customer satisfaction requires a servant attitude, a capable process, and frequent feedback from customer service metrics.
Practical Problem Solving Tools for Factory and Office
Many tools exist to address deviations and defects, but only a few are simple yet effective to address daily issues in manufacturing, development, administration.
Operational Excellence Tools to Close Gaps and Boost Results
If you run a factory, technology center, service organization, or improvement team, the OpEx toolbox helps you turn the scorecard from red to green.
Plastic Production: Increasing Yield, Flow, Resilience during Pandemic
Trioplast, one of Europe’s leading manufacturer of polyethylene film for cost-effective packaging solutions embarked on a systematic Lean rollout in 2018 to transform its
Root Cause Analysis: Using Logic Trees to Solve Critical and Complex Problems
Why do problems repeat? Because we haven’t eliminated their causes! And to understand those causes, we need more than the 5-why analysis; we need
Gemba Walk Checklist to Make Shop-Floor Visits Highly Effective
In times of electronic workflow, is “go-and-see” still required to understand what is happening? Yes! And here are 10 checkpoints for highly effective gemba-walks.
Lean Transformation: 3 Steps to Get Everyone Involved
Starting is Easy… Initiating an improvement program seems straightforward, just define the problem, create a plan, assign people, set dates, and watch the metrics
Covid-19 Lean Thinking, Radically Changes Way of Working
+25% Output, -50% Losses, at 44% Absenteeism: Despite the global pandemic and mandatory lockdown, the French operations team harnessed scarce resources and delivered breakthrough
Industry 4.0 Meets Lean: Faster Waste Processing at NG
Gemba walk during Lean audit confirms measurable improvements across all business-critical dimensions, such as employee engagement, structural stability, sorting quality, equipment reliability, and operational
Automotive Problem Solving Program: Training Trainers
Building problem-solving skills to systematically identify cause-effect relationships and effectively eliminate underlying root causes. By doing so, costly product and process failures are being
World Class Manufacturing Summit: Cut Plastic Waste
Over 30 managers joined the summit in Copenhagen to systematically improve performance and sustainability of Trioplast’s production of industrial, hygiene, stretch film, and carrier
The Digital Factory: Drafting Roadmap for Korean Plant
Factory Maturity Assessment (FMA) for a major Korean Automotive supplier to baseline the current state and develop the transformation roadmap to become a Digital
DISA Sets Internal Lean Benchmark for Norican Group
The Danish manufacturer of foundry equipment reached Silver level, improving schedule-adherence from 33% to 82%, cutting rework and overtime by 50%, increasing productivity by
Future Factory Workshop for Automotive Japan
Designing a better factory: automotive suppliers producing commodity products need to win on cost and scale, find new niches, and go beyond the automotive
Training Wrist’s Staff in Pursuit of Lean Ship Service
With focus on warehouse and back-office operations, 614 champions completed their Lean projects, improving response time to customers and on-time-in-full (OTIF) delivery performance to
Visual Management: Efficiency from Transparency
Visual management refers to the placement of tools, parts, processes, indicators in view, so the status of the system can be understood at a
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan Indonesia
Three years on its Lean journey the Indonesian team streamlined manufacturing-logistics chain, maximizing throughput to better serve the growing demand of Southeast Asia’s largest
Lean Manufacturing Silver-Gold for Givaudan Japan
Factory assessment confirms that the Fukuroi operation matured to ‘Silver-Gold’ level; now able to serve the Japanese beverage industry with quick-turn and highly flexible
Operations Diagnostics for Automotive Safety
Defining next steps on its Lean Journey the team in Utah benchmarks its operation against world-class references, assessing maturity level and identifying next improvement
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification in Mexico
After a one-year project implementation phase champions from Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands and Switzerland completed the Lean training and received their Black Belt
Lean Leadership Training at Wrist: “We’re taking our own medicine”
Performance Improvement Program (PIP) was kicked-off by Wrist Ship Supply with an initial training of the leadership team in Aalborg, Denmark to build critical
Lean Manufacturing Award for Norsk Gjenvinning
Norsk Gjenvinning’s metal shredding operation in Øra near Fredrikstad has made the Silver mark by attaining maturity level 3.0 on the five-point Lean benchmarking
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan USA
In pursuit of Operations Excellence the factory team in East-Hanover significantly improved first-pass yield (FPY) and on-time delivery (OTD), producing flavors with much improved
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification in Brazil
Lean champions who attained Black Belt level are now proficient in value stream mapping in manufacturing and service, root-cause identification and elimination, process-redesign and
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan Brazil
Team São Paulo matured its food-ingredients factory to level 3.5 on the five-point benchmarking scale; received ‘Silver-Gold‘ award for achieving breakthroughs in yield and
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan Singapore
Continuous effort over nearly five years paid-off: by systematically upgrading skills and capabilities, the Woodlands-team was able to significantly increase right-first-time (RFT) and labor
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan South Africa
Milestone achieved after a 4-year Lean journey, the operations team in Johannesburg proudly presents its ‘Silver‘ award for achieving level-3 on the Lean benchmarking
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan Hungary
The operations team in Hungary brought the largest powder blending factory of the group to ‘Silver‘ by implementing in core manufacturing and critical support
Lean Manufacturing Award for Navico Mexico
Navico’s maquiladora in Baja California received the ‘Silver‘ award for attaining maturity level-3 in Lean Manufacturing, boosting productivity 42% year-on-year and 1100% over seven
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification Singapore
Trainees at all levels of the organization learned how to effectively reduce waste, variability, and inflexibility (3 losses), while getting certified as Lean Yellow
PDCA Problem Solving Certification for Givaudan Singapore
Removing causes to prevent repeat problems is a foundational skill for key people, such as managers, supervisors and specialists to systematically improve right-first-time (RFT)
The 3 Golden Metrics for Performance Management
To take effective actions, we need effective metrics so we can recognize successes to learn from and issues to quickly correct before growing into major
Lean Manufacturing Award for Singaporean Factories
Two flavor factories received Silver-awards for scoring 3.0 points on the Lean Manufacturing benchmarking scale, while better delivering liquids and powders to the food
Strategy Deployment Roadmap to Plan Your Destiny
A growing stack of “things” is waiting for many of us when returning back to the office after the holidays, pending work to be
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan Mexico
A comprehensive Lean rollout brought the operation in Cuernavaca to ‘Silver‘, covering the value-chain including planning, production, logistics, customer service, maintenance, quality, and human
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan Argentina
Improving at a world-class rate of +0.5 point per year on the lean manufacturing benchmarking scale, the leadership team in Buenos Aires truly transformed its
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan Australia
Team in Smithfield “moved the performance needle” by implementing the Leanmap toolkit: Strategy Deployment Framework (SDF), Performance Management System (PMS), and Systematic Problem Solving
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan Netherlands
The Dutch team was first setting up the performance management center, the central place where the cross-functional team meets daily to plan and solve
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan Germany
The team in Dortmund benchmarked its factory and matured it over a two-year transformation period to ‘Silver‘ level, scoring 3 points or 60% operational
Lean Manufacturing Award for Givaudan Switzerland
Lean Audit confirms ‘Silver’ maturity for Givaudan’s major processing plant in Switzerland. The site was first to make the ‘Silver‘ mark, attaining maturity level
Black Belt Doubles Productivity with Just-In-Time
Implementing just-in-time (JIT) principles “flow-takt-pull-leveling” at a high-mix batch operation raised labor productivity 288%, freed up 33% process inventory, and permanently lowered cost-per-unit by
Lean Manufacturing Award for Eltek Slovakia
Systematic application of Lean principles allowed Eltek‘s module assembly plant in Slovakia significantly reduce cycle times and defect rates, permanently lowering the manufacturing cost
Lean Bronze Award for Boosting Metal Sorting Efficiency
Lean Transformation Program (LTP) allowed NG’s metal sorting plant reduce throughput time by 80%, inventory by 25%, and double-handing by 80% in just 1.8
Lean Award for Industrial Waste Sorting Efficiency
Lean Transformation Program (LTP) for industrial waste processing sites in Knarrevik and Mongstad to establish flow, processing batches faster and more efficient than ever
Executive Sponsor Training in Change Management
Executive Sponsor Training (EST) for senior managers to build solid skills in Lean management, becoming more effective sponsoring and steering change-programs across functions and
Lean Six Sigma Training and Certification Camps
Lean Six Sigma (LSS) program for a global industrial manufacturing group to systematically builds skills by training and certifying people in Lean and process