The shortest path to greater profitability

Today, intense global competition makes it vital that manufacturers eliminate the waste of time and money on activities that don’t add value to their products and services, directly benefit their customers or improve their bottom lines. That’s why successful manufacturers around the globe have adopted Lean systems.

By using Lean principles, practices and tools, manufacturers can create customer value and goods and services with higher quality and fewer defects – with less human effort, less space, less capital, and in less time than the traditional system of batch and queue/mass production.

As a result, their employees can better meet customer demands every day as they work toward a long-term goal of continuous improvement in delivering high-quality products and services on time, and at a low cost.

One of MAMTC’s specialties is Lean Enterprise, built on a solid foundation of proven principles that lead to bottom-line success. Give us a call and find out how our Lean Enterprise consultants can help you improve the flexibility, reliability and profitability of your manufacturing operations.

Benefits of becoming a Lean company:

• Reduction or elimination of waste
• Fewer defects
• Shorter lead times
• Increased manufacturing capacity
• Lower production costs
• Inventory reduction
• Increased on-time delivery
• Improved customer satisfaction
• Overall throughput improvements

MAMTC’s Lean Enterprise consultants will help you:

• guide your teams in making immediate improvements in quality, delivery and work-flow by mapping and streamlining the flow of information and materials.
• incorporate Lean tools to create smooth flow in your manufacturing operations and the ability to meet customer demands on time consistently.
• develop a culture of continuous improvement across the organization, ensuring long-term sustainability.

We can train your teams in Lean techniques including:

• Value Stream Mapping
  To identify and implement improvements with your operation
• Visual Workplace (5S)
  To design and implement a visual system that ensures daily performance goals are met
• Kaizen (Continuous improvement) events
  To make people more productive by improving their work environment and streamlining the process
• Total Productive Maintenance
  To make eliminating downtime a shared goal for the plant and organization
• Quick Changeover/Set-up Reduction
  To streamline and standardize the set-up process to decrease costs and lead times and improve Lean efficiency
• Cellular Flow Manufacturing
  To support smooth processing of materials and components with minimal transport or delay by creating “cells” of equipment and workstations related to a product or a narrow range of similar products
• Enhancing Flow with Pull Kanban
  To eliminate waste in handling, storing and getting products to customers

To learn how these techniques can benefit your company, call MAMTC at 1-888-649-4333 or e-mail us.