Manufacturing Consulting
“If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
– Henry Ford
Opportunities and Risks in a Complex World
Manufacturing is loaded with opportunities and risks that are rapidly changing in our increasingly complex world. Maintaining a profitable balance between the inputs to a manufacturing enterprise and its outputs requires a corporate strategy integrating competing inputs and detailed in-depth understanding what can give the enterprise a competitive edge among areas of specialization.
What’s The Problem?
Markets are rapidly changing, products are trying to stay relevant, and human, physical and technological processes are resistant to change, while physical assets can become fatal liabilities. Within manufacturing consulting, especially when steeped with Lean and Six Sigma methodologies we can look at manufacturing within this complex environment as inputs and outputs.
Inputs and Outputs?
Manufacturing consulting, especially when steeped with Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, can look at manufacturing within this complex environment as inputs and outputs.
INPUTS
- Budgets
- Cash
- Components
- Customers
- Debt
- Departments
- Information
- Information Technology
- Inventory
- Investment
- Management Systems
- Quality Control Systems
- Payroll
- People
- Physical Assets
- Processes
- Regulations
- Raw Materials
- Schedules
- Specifications
- Standards
- Subassemblies
- Suppliers and Supply Chains
OUTPUTS
- New Product Development
- Innovation
- Productivity
- Products
- Profit
- Quality
- Services
Assisting management in balancing and optimizing inputs and outputs, without legacy bias, along value streams and business operations is what we at SBTI do as manufacturing consultants. We provide input to your strategic planning and help devise tactical business solutions. And most importantly we’re there for the implementation — project and change management, systems integration, process development, changes to management operating systems, employee training and mentoring
How Can We Help?
SBTI identifies these step change opportunities. We combine it with a powerful change management capability to ensure their delivery. Let’s talk and let us show you how we can help build a discontinuous improvement capability.
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