Services

Seminars

Our one day seminar is designed to show you the possibilities with one-piece flow production cells and right sized equipment.  Whether your goal is to develop your own internal capabilities to produce error proof right sized equipment or to contract with us to design your equipment, this one day seminar will show you what it takes.  We will show you how to cut your tooling cost to 20% of conventional strategies and dramatically reduce inventory and plant floor space.  Produce daily requirements and no more!  Reduce your investment cost and scale your production to current demand.  Stop tying up capital for demand that may never materialize.  Achieve profitability at low and high volume production!

 Seminar Overview

·         One-Piece Flow Production vs. Batch and Queue Production

·         The Moonshine Shop – Working around organizational boundaries to make order of magnitude improvements

·         3P (Production Preparation Process) – An effective method to develop one piece flow production cells

·         Error Proofing Strategies

·         Predictive Maintenance Strategies

Workshops

We utilize the 3P method in our line design workshop.  This highly effective method involves assembling a cross functional team at your facility.  We facilitate a weeklong event where we brainstorm 7 ways to accomplish each process step.  We sketch ideas and concepts on flip charts and build upon one another’s ideas.  We get creative and plaster the conference room walls with concept sketches!  At the end of day 2 we start to converge on the best ideas based on criteria that the team establishes.   We build mock ups of the line on day 3 and refine the concepts.  During day 4 we finish up the mock up and create a financial model estimating investment cost and projected return on investment.  During day 5 we prepare a report out in which each member of the project team presents an overview of the week and the results that we accomplished. 

Workshop Deliverables

·         A well thought out cellular one-piece flow line design ready to be engineered

·         Takt time (available time/demand) and Through-put (production rate)

·         Detailed Error Proof Strategy

·         Estimated investment cost and projected financial benefit

After the line design workshop, you will have the concepts outlined.  Detailed engineering drawings are the next step.

Right Sized Equipment Design

We offer engineering services by a licensed Professional Engineer to fully define the equipment and tooling.  You will receive 3 dimensional CAD models and 2 dimensional prints fully defining your machines and tooling.    We perform all mechanical engineering design in house and sub-contract with trusted partners to provide Electrical Engineering and machine programming.

 

Project Management

You can contract with others to build your machines and tooling or we will manage the construction of your machines and tooling using trusted partners.

 

 

All of our services are billed at time and materials.