What We Do
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Increase Productivity
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Reduce Scrap
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Shorten cycle time
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Right First Time Quality
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Enable staff with the correct
methods & tools
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Change Management
Complimentary 2 hour
“7 Deadly Wastes”
Workshop at your site
Contact Stephen Wilkinson:
508-981-1649
Your 7 Wastes
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MOTION: Excess walking or movement by people, extra trips, meetings, searching for tools or materials.
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TRANSPORTATION: Excess movement of tools or materials. Moving things from place to place. Deliver only to point of use, not staging areas.
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DEFECTS: Any mistake or error. Scheduling error, wrong material delivery, out of spec product or information.
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EXCESS INVENTORY (WIP): More parts, materials, raw materials, computers, than will be used in a very short period of time. Producing ahead of the schedule or before the customer needs it.
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OVER PROCESSING: Doing more steps or work than is required to meet customer demand. Over batching, creating scrap, packaging materials that are trashed. Excessive testing.
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WAITING/ IDLE TIME: Watching an automated process or waiting for it to finish, waiting for a part or raw material to be delivered, waiting for a downstream vessel to be emptied to proceed to the next step. Waiting for schedule information or test results.
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EXCESS FINISHED GOODS: More finished product than the customer is demanding right now.
Tools to eliminate waste
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Value Stream Map
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Process map with additions of cycle time, hand-offs, staff level, scrap, distance, etc.
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Spaghetti Diagrams
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Find motion waste such as searching for tools, parts, information.
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Time Study
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How long does it really take to do a task and how much of that is really adding value?
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Standard Work
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Find the best practice, improve it, document it, standardize the method across all performers. Improves method and reduces variation.
“Steve works closely with managers teaching them how to Observe, Analyze & Improve their processes. This direct coaching led to improving multiple issues on the floor.”
“Steve is recognized as a consistent, high quality contributor. He delivered results exceeding the goals and continues to demonstrate good values and leadership attributes.”