Consulting In Operational Excellence
Consulting in operational excellence
In partnership, we can assist you in defining, elaborating, and achieving your continuous improvement projects so you can accelerate the return on your investment.
We also offer end-to-end Lean Six Sigma training and certification programs. These programs include coaching on projects.
Training in operational excellence
Lean
- 8 surface wastes
- 4 leadership wastes
- 5S
- VSM (value stream mapping)
- Kaizen blitz
- Visual management
- Daily management system and whiteboard
- Poka Yoke
- Continuous flow and pull systems
- Workcells
- Kanban
- Hoshin Kanri (execution of the strategy)
Maintenance & Reliability
- Reliability analysis
- FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
- TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)
- MPI (Maintenance Process Improvement)
General problem solving tools
- Voice of the Customer
- CT tree
- Project Charter
- Project Financial Analysis
- Stakeholders Analysis
- Efficient Team Meetings
- SIPOC
- Process Mapping
- Ishikawa Diagram
- Cause-and-Effect matrix
- 5 Why
- FMEA (Failure Modes and Effect Analysis)
- Data Collection Plan
- Pareto Analysis
- Pugh Matrix
- Creativity Techniques: Brainstorming, Six Hats, SCAMPER, Problem Reversal
- Affinity diagram
- 10-4 Classification
- Effort/Impact Matrix
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
- Benchmarking
- Control Plan
- Communication Plan
Consulting in continuous improvement
We can help you to elaborate an implementation strategy tailored to your organization, to accompany you in the training, selection, and coaching of projects. The programs we offer:
- Process Improvement (Lean Six Sigma)
- Business Process Improvement (Lean Office)
- Maintenance and Reliability Improvement (Lean Maintenance)
- Research and Development Improvement (Design For Six Sigma)
- Improvement of daily management (Lean Management)
Operational excellence expertise
Value Stream Mapping
We can assist you in developing the value stream map of your actual process by facilitating a working session where the team will map the process, collect data and identify waste. We can also help you in identifying improvements and map the future process.
SMED, 5S, Kanban, Visual Management, Cellular Layout
You have an opportunity to apply a Lean tool, we can help you in ensuring a successful implementation. We can assist you in validating your choice of tool, in planning its implementation and participating to its design and deployment, in measuring the outcome and making sure a control procedure is in place to maintain the gains.
Daily Management
We can help you in implementing your daily management system: defining the whites boards content, establishing the sequence of daily meetings and their agenda, reviewing your shift changeover, establishing an escalation process for issues, etc. In addition, we can work with you to define the leader standard work and gemba walks, to improve the problem solving skills, to establish the total productive maintenance routines and the process to prioritize issues.
Learn how to move from action planning to result planning in our whitepaper.
Kaizen Blitz
If you want to improve the efficiency of your process improvement team meetings, the Kaizen Blitz could be an approach you want to consider. Our experts can introduce you to this intensive, high energy, focussed team meeting process and facilitate a Kaizen Blitz event in your organization.
Fields of Expertise Examples:
Pulp and paper, aluminium, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, electronic sensors, metal and mining, aeronautics, transportation, ink, tissue papers, packaging, food, breweries, health care (C/S), real estate, call centers, quality departments and technical services, research centres, printing, wallpaper, government, municipal, medical devices, chemicals, rubber, ports and rails operation, baggage handling and airports activities, electrical power generation.