Productivity

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. / Tom Peters /

Do you believe that it is possible to achieve up to 30% improvement to the companies’ bottom line?

World practice shows that it is possible by implementing of significant changes in company culture and introduction of essential performance improvements. An improvement culture has become more important than ever for today’s businesses. The transformation process is:

1. start change now;
2. make products and services flow;
3. remove waste;
4. respect for people;
5. continuously improve.

Why Lean, Six Sigma?

An enhancement of productivity requires various instruments according to every case. The most powerful tool is an implementation of Lean, Six Sigma principles. It:

• changes company’s culture;
• is not just a set of tools – it is lasting permanent change;
• removes the waste in a step-by-step process;
• will engage all your employees;
• shows how to systematically improve your quality.

International research shows that:

• only about 20% of employees go the extra distance to help a company success;
• more than 80% of customers measure your performance on your quality;
• 60-90% of all activity the customer is not willing to pay for and is waste.

Solutions

What we accomplish and what results we achieve are dependent on your business needs and goals.

Every business is unique but we have noticed there is a common approach:

• build your business around the customer not your processes;
• get your employees involved with problem solving;
• standardize as much as possible;
• keep experimenting with new ideas.

Implementing of changes is a continuous step-by-step process, which consists of miscellaneous and individually tailored stages:

• function and processes audit;
• material and information flow analysis;
• improvement simulation game;
• management coaching;
• value stream mapping;
• potential benefits determination;
• goal setting and implementation planning;
• pilot project implementation;
• improving production processing;
• improving interior logistics;
• slimming down the delivery chain;
• continuous improvement philosophy and practice and other.

We develop a unique solutions for each client that best meets the stated objectives, desired results, facing challenges, budget and other criteria.

Call us on (+371) 67327070 for more information on LEAN, Six Sigma and other productivity tools.

* – Lean Management philosophy originates from the Toyota Production System (TPS) developed by car producing company Toyota in the early ’50s. The principles behind Lean were first described in the book Lean Thinking (James P. Womack; Daniel T. Jones (1997)) where the terminology “Lean” is used to describe a process/ production methodology.

Lean aims to create an organisational culture where all employees are focused on continuously reducing all types of waste present in a process, such as waiting time, inventories, transportation, etc. The Lean methodology allows an organisation to create strong, stable processes that will enable them to deliver exactly what the customer wants – quickly, efficiently and with minimum cost implications.

* – Six Sigma is a business management strategy originally developed by Motorola, USA in 1981. It seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects (errors) and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes.

Bill Smith first formulated the particulars of the methodology at Motorola in 1986. Six Sigma was heavily inspired by six preceding decades of quality improvement methodologies such as quality control, TQM, and Zero Defects. The term “Six Sigma” comes from a field of statistics known as process capability studies. It refers to the ability of manufacturing processes to produce a very high proportion of output within specification.

Lean creates flow and eliminates waste, Six Sigma improves quality. The use of Lean, however, will also improve quality, just as Six Sigma will also create flow and reduce waste. To achieve fully optimised processes, companies usually make use of both Lean and Six Sigma.