Industrial engineering

• Do you want your manufacturing and engineering teams to deliver better operational results, optimize development productivity, or improve the ergonomics or layout of your factory?
• Do you want to see higher yields, lower level of rework, lower rate of products that are dead on arrival, or products that suffer from ‘infant mortality’?
• Do you want improved throughput, quality and reliability, and lower production costs?
• Do you want to execute successful product introductions or ramp-ups?

Then you need industrial engineering.

Our team of seasoned professionals believe that manufacturing and operations management are the key drivers for sustainable business success. Executing a production ramp-up or just improve current performances is never easy and require methods and discipline. Sometimes your engineering team needs appropriate trainings (quality, control, lean principles, 5S, ramp-up risk management, statistics) as well.

We believe in offering you tailored solutions based on proven solutions and practical approaches. Your entire operations becomes lean, with reduced waste and inefficiency at every step in your process. You do more with less effort and you will always be in control.

A 2-step method to better results

We solve industrial engineering problems by applying proven methods and tools derived from our experience. Generally our missions are scheduled along two main steps:

Step 1: Investigate & propose plan

In the first phase, we start exploring your technical processes, assess your quality performance, evaluate your data as well as interview your teams. Our main focus is to understand your engineering performances, and link them to your global financial performance in order to set priorities.
Then we start focusing on your major problems. Using deep dive sessions with your team, we discern between competency and organizational issues. The aim is to find common root causes (technical and organizational) that have great impact on your overall performance. Our deep dives into your organization bring measurable and concrete facts on the table.

We share our consolidated findings with you and your teams on the shop floor. We make proposals to solve problems, and new ways of working for quality and reliability improvements in manufacturing.

This phase will take weeks up to months, depending on the size of your organization.

Step 2: Execute plan

in this second phase, which will take months up to quarters, we support you in the execution of the defined plan. Our hands-on problem-solvers will join your teams on the shop-floor where implementation happens. We support you in the execution of the plan, and carefully take the technical improvements as well as the organizational (human) factors into account. During every step we keep our practical mindset.
We start with the implementation of visible achievements within your engineering process. So you will rapidly achieve first time right results, which will increase the enthusiasm of your team and the support for new changes. You will have fast results.

Depending on the complexity of your engineering models, we develop with you a DfX (design for excellence) approach or assist you with mathematical models and design for excellence methodologies.

Our consultants have experienced the same real-world production problems

All our consultants are experienced professionals who have spent many years working in industry, tackling the kind of challenges you face every day. We have a broad experience in many product technologies. We are familiar with industrial challenges and continued productivity pressure. Our people speak your language, they understand your pain and the need for solutions that fit your unique opportunities and constraints.

Because we have seen and solved a huge range of real-world problems, our specialists get to the heart of your issue rapidly. We know the theory, but our approach is strictly hands-on: this results in quick improvements.

We support you to better understand your industrial and manufacturing processes. Our priority is to improve your operations performances. We work on your complex processes as well as on your systems and organization for implementing or reinforcing continuous improvement efforts, sustained by a proven plan, do, check, act approach. We collaborate and work with your teams on the shop floor achieving better performances at lower costs. Our consultants bring methods and engineering discipline, and always consider the bigger picture. They bring leading-edge know-how, insights and experience on your table.