General manufacturing

Getting more out of your plant

Challenges

Having worked with the manufacturing industry for well over a decade, we completely understand the challenges facing individual companies. Challenges such as: rising raw material, energy and labour costs; the threat of cheap overseas competition; the current reluctance of financial institutions to lend money; the cost of compliance with industry regulations; and to cap it all, customers demanding more for less.

In order to remain competitive manufacturers need to find new ways of:

• Reducing costs
• Getting more out of their plant
• Increasing reliability
• Reducing lead times

Why us?

We have a proven track record for improving the fortunes of many different types of manufacturers - from electrical components to food, packaging to pharmaceuticals. Through our various diagnostic tools, we can pinpoint areas for improvement and effect dramatic change. For example our engineers can work together with a cross-functional team to:

• substantially increase the capacity of existing facilities without capital expenditure
• increase plant reliability
• increase right first time manufacture
• increase process yields
• improve customer service levels
• increase flexibility reducing changeovers and cleandowns
• increase regulatory compliance (e.g. FDA, GMP) and safety
• reduce costs
• reduce duration of plant shutdowns and maintenance tasks
• reduce lead times and dependency on stock

Throughout the process, customers are armed with the tools and confidence to implement proposals themselves and continue the improvement process into the future.

Results

Typical results achieved by the team include:

• Lucite International reduced their planned plant downtime by over 50%, giving cost savings of over £1.2 million
• 30% increase in production levels at Thermo Fisher Scientific

For a more indepth view of how we can help your business take a look at our case studies.