Industry Forum has over a decade of experience as industrial components business consultants supporting blue chip organisations within this sector, both in the UK and globally. Industry Forum has supported the development and introduction of global systems with clients, coached and developed internal resource to ensure sustainability and supported front line delivery of invasive lean or TPM programmes.

Examples of some of the techniques successfully deployed in client organisations within this Sector include:

• Developing business policy deployment systems to ensure all improvement activities within the organisation support overall strategic objectives
• Implementing robust data collection and analysis systems to identify business improvement opportunities relating to Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Environment and Manpower (SQCDEM)
• Driving daily management processes enabling first line leadership to control their processes, implementing local level problem solving and improvement
• Developing the capability and autonomous ownership of workplace teams to identify and implement improvement opportunities using core Lean improvement tools such as waste elimination, workplace organisation, standardisation and visual management
• Application of robust problem solving methodologies to improve quality and prevent defect reoccurrence both internally and at customers
• Value stream mapping techniques to re-design the production process in order to identify and eliminate causes of in process waste and supply chain material loss
• Optimisation of product changeovers and adjustments to reduce start-up and shut-down efficiency losses and increase flexibility to manufacture in smaller batch sizes
• The implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methods to drive improved Overall Equipment Effectiveness and reducing manufacturing costs per unit