The competitive landscape that exists in today’s globalised environment requires every company to become lean and efficient in gaining a competitive advantage. Your company’s success is directly related to your ability to improve efficiency along your value chain and subsequent continuous improvement initiatives. For manufacturing operations, efficiency is measured in terms of the manufacturing and quality lead time, compared to the cost of production, and return on capital employed. Continuous Excellence is an end state which uses continuous improvement techniques on an ongoing basis to improve upon the company’s processes, products, and services.
At Acumen, we employ engineering and business improvement methods such as Integrated Work System (IWS) tools to improve your efficiency, as well as utilise Six Sigma principles and best-in-class frameworks to achieve continuous excellence. Efficiency improvements can span from the manufacturing lines and throughout the supply chain. Our experts have Six Sigma certified belts and possess considerable experience in multinational manufacturing enterprises. We not only build and improve your processes, but we also train your human capital to be autonomous in operations. Our services relate to:
- Design of manufacturing general instructions/standards and calculations (including but not limited to: First Time Right/Quality, Planned/Unplanned Downtime, Lost Time Incident)
- Capacity Utilization studies
- Training in Go See Think and Do (GSTD)/Root Cause analysis methods, to name a few
- Continuous Improvement Design and implementation coaching
- Line bottleneck studies
- Asset Intensity or throughput efficiency improvements
- Training and development of staff in LEAN manufacturing concepts
- Design and implementation of Continuous improvement methods
- Formulation and implementation of Industrial Performance metrics in developing manufacturing standards