Outcome-based solution
Manufacturing Performance Improvement
Higher throughput, productivity, reliability and schedule attainment.
When it fits
- Output misses demand despite available capacity.
- Downtime, quality loss or labor inefficiency is increasing.
- Plants lack a common daily management system.
Who it is for
COO, VP operations, plant leader
Measures of success
- Throughput and schedule attainment
- Overall equipment effectiveness
- Labor productivity
- Quality and maintenance performance
Where it starts
A QuickScan or an Accelerator
QuickScan
- Review plant scorecards and loss data.
- Interview operations and maintenance leaders.
- Identify major loss categories and rapid hypotheses.
Accelerator
- Conduct focused process walks and deeper data analysis.
- Validate constraints, downtime, labor, quality and management system gaps.
- Estimate the opportunity by lever.
Timing assumes a defined issue, sponsor availability, timely access to summary data and a limited number of stakeholder interviews. ISI confirms final timing before the assessment begins.
Then
The 30-business-day diagnostic
Week 1
Validate the baseline, product flow, constraints and operating priorities.
Week 2
Assess asset, labor, maintenance, quality, planning and daily management.
Week 3
Design improvement waves and estimate benefits and resource needs.
Week 4
Deliver the plant performance roadmap and implementation control plan.
Executive deliverables
- Loss and constraint analysis
- Improvement opportunity case
- Plant roadmap
- Daily management design
33% productivity improvement
Read the manufacturing engagementFollow-on implementation
- Constraint elimination sprints
- Maintenance reliability
- Lean operating system
- Multi-site performance program
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The request form opens with Manufacturing Performance Improvement already selected. ISI confirms scope, timing, data requirements and commercial terms before any work begins.