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Consulting Services
Decision Power
Consulting encompasses a wide range of areas of expertise including:
- Business Process
Analysis
- Production Control
- Operations Management
- Managing Change
- Lean Manufacturing
- Purchasing
- Systems Review
- Systems Implementation
- Project Management
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Past Assignments
have included
- Full review
of purchasing functions for aerospace supplier
- Business systems
implementation and project management for bed manufacturer,
load cells manufacturers in UK and US, service sector businesses
- Punctuality
study for major airline
- Oracle implementation
at high tech electronics industries, air conditioning manufacturer
- Systems review
for US supplier to Boeing
- Scheduling assignments
for semi conductor business, aerospace suppliers
- Business Process
Analysis for business software supplier's clients
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The
concept of thinking lean is not just restricted to manufacturing
companies but can be applied to any business. In particular it
focusses on the elimination on waste in all its forms:
- wasted effort
in over-production
- wasted time
- wasted handling
- wasted inventory
and stock
- wasted movement
- wasted effort
in over development
- wasted effort
producing defective goods
Lean is all about
getting value for effort which in turn maximises effectiveness
and profitability. A short diagnostic study of your business
will show you how you can eliminate waste and become more effective.
There
are a number of 'lean' techniques that can be applied to assist
in the process. These include:
- Kanban - the
Japanese word for Card - used for creating a 'pull' system
which ensures that materials are only released when they are
really required
- SMED - this
looks at set up reduction, ensuring that the minimum possible
production time is lost between jobs.
- JIT - Just in
time to minimise inventory, paperwork, effort, cost .......
- Pokayoke - the
concept of fool proofing processes so that they cannot and
will not fail
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