Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering
- Manufacturing process development
- Capital equipment justification
- Factory modeling/simulation
- Facilities design and layout
- Process cycle time reduction
- Constraints and bottleneck analysis
- Production readiness review
- Tool/fixture/packaging design
- Cost analysis
- Work sampling
- Workstation ergonomics
Supply Chain Management
- SCOR method implementation
- Supplier management programs
- Procurement and contracts
- Make/Buy analysis
- Offshore (international) supplier management
Production Planning and Scheduling
- Sales and Operations Planning implementation
- Master scheduling and MRP methods
- Capacity planning methods
- Kanban system implementation
New Product Introduction
- DFx processes
- Stage-Gate processes
- DFMEA/PFMEA
- Cost estimating
- Production Readiness Review
- Concurrent engineering strategies
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Six Sigma Tools – variability reduction
- Lean Tools – waste ID and elimination
- Gemba walks
- Operations strategy development
- Lean Accounting
- Performance metrics development
Organizational Development
- Employee training programs development
- Industry operator certification
- Employee skills management
- Job descriptions
- Supervisor/manager/leadership coaching
- Staffing and organizational structure analysis
Inventory Management
- Warehouse layout
- Cycle counting implementation
- Inventory reduction strategies
Quality Management
- QMS development, implementation, certification, audit
- Regulatory compliance review
- Quality and reliability engineering
- Supplier quality management programs
- Risk management programs
- Workmanship standards development
- Failure analysis methods
Systems Implementation and Training
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems
- Database development and business intelligence