Enabling Businesses to...

Understand Business Constraints

Understand Business Constraints

Realise Employee Potential

Realise Employee Potential

Empower Business Growth

Empower Business Growth

A Single point of contact for all your businesses challenges.

Analysing business/process performance using Production System Methodologies enabling focused understanding of business/process constraints. Define and deliver recommendations to support constraints.

Business Plan
Development/Deployment

Understanding your current vision and strategy then together develop and plan short- and medium-term goals

Business Plan
Development/Deployment

Understanding your current vision and strategy then together develop and plan short- and medium-term goals

Data Analysis

Develop KPI’s to enable the business to understand process performance unlocking improvement and delivery

Data Analysis

Develop KPI’s to enable the business to understand process performance unlocking improvement and delivery

Load & Capacity Planning

Understanding and development of businesses Capacity Planning Process enabling the vision of the required production capacity to meet changing demands

Load & Capacity Planning

Understanding and development of businesses Capacity Planning Process enabling the vision of the required production capacity to meet changing demands

Training & People Development

Understanding your Business skill and training capability, develop training needs to unlock teams potential

Training & People Development

Understanding your Business skill and training capability, develop training needs to unlock teams potential

Services Offered ...

  •  Customer Defines Value
  •  Create Flow
  •  Standardise
  •  Build In Quality
  •  Identify Waste & Process Variation
  •  Developing People
  •  Create culture of Continuous Improvement

  •  Lean Methodologies
  •  Structured Problem-solving utilising Toyota Kata methodology
  •  Leadership development

Fulfilling Your Businesses Potential...

To assist businesses fully understand the current state and opportunities for improvement I adopt this structured process to building a clear vision and direction -

Challenge

Review and identify your Business Challenges and constraints

Current Condition

Structured data gathering using process observation (Gemba)

Develop current condition process maps to support data gathered

Achievable Targets

Set out a structured road map to address the Business challenges and constraints

Lean Tools Definitions

 Customer Defines Value

 Customer Defines Value

  •  Help define and conduct a Voice of the Customer (VoC) assessment to understand their definition of value. Through the VoC assessment the business can define what your customers want
  •  Part of the journey will be to map out value streams and processes, measure performance and plan robustly

 Create Flow

 Create Flow

  •  Generating a full and detailed value stream/process map highlights how the products or service flows to the customer, this helps identify bottlenecks in the VSM or process, outlining variation and inefficiencies
  •  By eliminating the process variation and inefficiencies will reduce lead time and cost, increasing the businesses flexibility to achieve your customer’s requirements

 Developing People

 Developing People

  •  Ensuring your teams and leaders are engaged and empowered by communicating business performance, they are trained to develop new skills and knowledge with a skilled functional support network in place to coach your teams and leaders
  •  Enabling the business to continuously improve employees, processes, products & services

 Standardise

 Standardise

  •  Without a clearly defined standard to follow, performance will drift leaving it difficult to understand or visualise the gap reducing ability to promote or develop continuous improvement
  •  Clear and defined instructions are required to enable tasks or processes to be performed in the same way, an organised workplace with clear visual status supports this

 Build In Quality

 Build In Quality

  •  Having the ability to make decisions based on accurate data and a long-term view, considering all obstacles & risks Identify problems as they occur - never knowingly pass on a defect - right first time (RFT) thinking
  •  Eliminate inefficiencies and reduce process variation by maintaining equipment, tools and fixtures
  •  Products need to be Right First Time (RFT), measured with capable equipment and inspection systems

 Identify Inefficiencies & Process Variation

 Identify Inefficiencies & Process Variation

  •  Identify and reduce any non-value activity or material & increase process reliability/repeatability to drive customer value.
  •  We eliminate waste and reduce process variation to help to enhance customer value and reduce costs

 Create Culture of Continuous Improvement

 Create Culture of Continuous Improvement

  •  Practice "go-look-see" to understand the source of a problem & gather accurate and reliable information
  •  Always challenge and understand the current state which will drive effectiveness, responsiveness to customers to reduce costs
  •  This means improvement becomes a habit in our daily life
  •  Generation of a standard diary ensures we all know what we need to be doing and the direction to follow

Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts

I have spent 30 years in the Automotive Industry working for two of the largest OEM’s as a maintenance and then operations leader. I have also held Senior Operations roles with two first tier suppliers.

I then worked for 14 years in the Aerospace Industry where I held Operations & Business Improvement Management roles.

Last year I set up my own business as a Lean Consultant, helping clients understand their Business Constraints, enable employees (Teams or leadership) unlock their potential and become self-sufficient, empowering them to understand, identify and develop solutions through scientific thinking. Which enables Business growth.

Through my career I have developed my skills and knowledge which has enabled me to coach individuals, teams and leaders in Lean thinking and leadership behaviors. I am a certified Lean/6 sigma Black Belt and Toyota Kata coach which has helped me focus my scientific way of thinking.

Recently I Project Managed multiple Supply Chain & Logistics projects as an Associate Lean Consultant for North Star Projects serving clients in the UK and overseas.

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Contact Me

Ready to Lean into Success?

 +44(0)7956068420
 mark@msrlean.co.uk
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