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Lean Drives Improvement for Fleet Management Company

A major international fleet management company needed to optimize processes to better align operations with the company’s strategy and help them to keep up with demand. We helped, learn how!

The Power of Optimizing Your Workflow

An international apparel manufacturer asks for help increasing their production levels utilizing existing resources…and hurry!

What Happens When You Ask Why with a Lean Eye?

A Major US Metal Manufacturer asked us to conduct kaizen style event to help improve throughput and increase capacity while achieving cost reductions.

Reducing Product Costs

Our client needed to find 25% more capacity in order to absorb incoming production lines into an already capacity and space strained environment. Working with the client team, here’s an overview of how we helped make it happen.

10 Steps to Foster Innovation and Drive Growth

Innovate or die is a favored phrase among forward thinkers, and though perhaps hackneyed, the notion is exactly in line with the needs of retail today.
As James Vatalaro, a business consultant with Productivity Inc., which practices improving on its namesake for companies in need, noted in his presentation on strategy innovation at the...

Managing Complexity at a Major Insurance Broker

This affinity insurance broker manages policies for 100+ global brands, with millions of new insurance contracts annually covering policyholders in 10+ countries. Its banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, and retail clients offer their...

Blower Failure Case Study – Root Cause Machine Failure Analysis

The goal of Maintenance Improvement is to move away from reactive to a proactive or planned maintenance process. As part of this process, maintenance personnel analyze breakdowns to reveal equipment weaknesses and then modify equipment to improve its operation, maintainability and lengthen equipment life. Root Cause Machine Failure Analysis was introduced to this building products manufacturer’s maintenance reliability team as a method to eliminate a repetitive blower failure.