Continuous Improvement Advisory Services
A sustainable factory relies on people to perform. Operational excellence and resource efficiency are complementary approaches which, when implemented together, deliver compounded competitive advantage.
The best performing factories deliver across multiple dimensions of operational excellence simultaneously. They operate at low COST, deliver excellent QUALITY, ensure on time DELIVERY in full, maintain employee SAFETY and HEALTH, maintain high levels of MORALE and take care of the ENVIRONMENT. While there are instances in which these dimensions can work against each other, the idea with operational excellence is to set appropriate specifications, set challenging performance targets and to optimise performance, meaning that the best balance of performance between these dimensions is achieved, sustained and improved upon.
VWG is not a “Lean” or “Six Sigma” consultancy. Our approach is one borne more from our practical experiences of working with over 130 factories across multiple industries. Integral to what we do and how we work is the strong process engineering foundation, a result of the background our founders brought to the business when we were founded over two decades ago. At the heart of our CI philosophy is a foundation in problem solving techniques.
The following are the services we provide where continuous improvement is concerned:
- Review of plant-wide operational excellence goals and targets to assess if goals at individual levels (senior management, middle management, shop floor) are aligned and supportive of strategy achievement
- Site-wide risk assessments to identify risks across all operational excellence performance dimensions
- Development of standard operating procedures for production and utility areas, working closely with plant personnel
- Facilitation of problem solving exercises together with operational teams to solve specific problems selected by management on site
- Throughput studies to identify bottlenecks and propose solutions for increasing plant capacity
- Review of maintenance performance and practices, development of preventive maintenance programmes
- Review and streamlining of shop floor recordkeeping and data management. We can also provide digital solutions to facilitate smooth and accurate recordkeeping.
Whatever your operational performance problems, we can assist to get them resolved.
Would you like to build a problem solving culture in your organisation and boost performance at the same time?
Training and coaching along with real performance improvement through our innovative programme.
