Oakland has over 20 years' experience supporting improvement of performance in manufacturing.
Every one of our consultants has been selected because they have a vast experience at management level within their particular industries, such as: Operations Director; Quality Director; Financial Controller; VP of Business Excellence etc.
Our manufacturing consultants have specific expertise in the development and the successful introduction of business improvement - Total Quality Management; Lean; Six Sigma; TPM; SPC etc.
Our offer consists of two elements:
Manufacturing Excellence
Operational Excellence
Drawing on our experience and our research, we have successfully developed and deployed training to improve manufacturing performance.
Our extensive range of training materials is delivered in a variety of ways, supported by our extensive "Toolkit". The Oakland approach is focused around Manufacturing Excellence - driving effectiveness and efficiency. Our tools and techniques include:
Value Stream Mapping
Problem Solving using DRIVER
Kaizen Blitz events
SMED
Design for Manufacture
Six Sigma
Lean
FMEA
Creative thinking
Value Engineering
Waste Reduction
Our drive is on achieving continuous, sustainable improvement (CSI). Development of a CSI Plan is critical to ensure the benefits are held long term and everyone strives to improve them.
The improvement journey must be driven by senior management to ensure the improvement plan is regularly reviewed and that all necessary resources are available to make it happen.
Case Studies
Achieving Product Consistency The Assignment
The client required rapid business improvement and identified product consistency as a core improvement issue. Initial diagnosis concluded that there was an absence of end to end process thinking, rather than customer focus. Benefits targeted for the programme included: improved customer satisfaction and improved process capability Read the full case study
EADS Airbus Variation
Oakland Consulting has been working with EADS over several years to develop and implement an effective improvement programme. This case study briefly describes just one of the hundreds of projects undertaken. It describes the first project undertaken by an EADS Black Belt candidate, recently trained by Oakland Consulting in Lean Six Sigma.
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