Services

We help organizations achieve exceptional results through lean practices and continuous improvement methodologies. Our services are designed to create sustainable, long-term improvements in your operations.

Services we offer at Lean Pursuit include:

We provide a unique Operational Excellence consulting service. Coaching, training and application of the Lean methodology are essential elements of our service. We enable you to capture the creative power of your people and gain an ongoing capability of taking your competition head on.

Our methodology has origins in Toyota practices, which has been adapted and have flourished in the Western environment. The services will be tailored to suit your situation and needs, which may range from specific small project to building a Lean enterprise multi-site, multi-national organisation with a common best practice work culture. In Australia, there may be an opportunity for part of the nationally accredited training to be funded by government grants.

We have associates based around the world and can tap in the expertise based in Australia, Japan, India and the USA.

Capital Projects

  • New Equipment – Capital justification, Selection or commissioning of equipment or product line.
  • Special purpose machines
  • New product lines and upgrades to existing ones.
  • Plant Relocation

One Page Report Writing

In the ear of information smog, it is quite common for senior business executives to feel frustrated to read long reports and still struggle to work out clearly what is being communicated. Somehow, the Toyota group of companies realised this even before computers arrived at every work desk. They have practiced this art of ‘one page report writing’ to cut waste in the office environment.

Your staff can learn this art, too.

Operational Cost Reduction

  • Value Stream Mapping – Methodology to capture business process on one page. Shared picture, the current state map, typically leads to a vision for waste reduction. Future state map helps to sustain improvement cycle, prioritize, maintain focus, achieve better service levels (e.g. lead time) and bottom line.
  • Facilitating Kaizen Events – Kaizen event is focused-effort of identifying and implementing improvement in less than a week. We can help you with Shop Floor or Transactional. The transactional Kaizens are handy to improve office/admin functions; the less obvious waste.
  • Creating a Visual Work Place – Effective teams are able to distinguish normal from abnormal in a glance and trigger corrective action. It supports walk through management, sustainability of lean systems, project management and communication in shop floor or office environment.
  • Effective KPIs– Your dash-board design to shape your team’s behavior. selection of the right ones to move the needle, maintenance thereof with low input effort.
  • Inventory Optimisation – Replenishment system – tools such as min/max, reorder point, Kanban. How to use Inventory Turns as input rather than just have an output?
  • Shop Floor or Warehouse Layout – improving productivity or a new set up.
  • SMED – Set up time reduction, helps to overcome system inertia to achieve considerable shifts in the lead time and inventory.

Product and Service Cost management

  • Value Engineering – Identify value add or non value add parts of your products and service. Product Design Review for ease of manufacture and assembly, changes in design to reduce process effort, material cost and potential of defects. Making product design conducive to lean process (flow).
  • Costing Methodology – Using one page format, understand your cost for better pricing and improved control of your product or service cost.
  • Sourcing Components from Low Cost Locations - identifying, evaluating and engaging suppliers in low cost locations to meet your product and service needs.

Quality Management

Improvement of quality in products and services holds the key to improving any business. We examine your situation from the bottom up to encompass all areas of quality improvement and ongoing quality assurance, improving reliability and reducing variation.

Some of our tools and techniques include:

  • Root Cause Analysis – This assists with tackling repeat quality/service issues, gain traction for both short and long-term solutions. Use of cause effect diagrams and five Whys.
  • FMEA – Failure Mode Effect Analysis is an advance quality planning tool best applied at the development stage of product, process, service or equipment/tooling. However, when post applied, it becomes effective learning mirror for decision makers for reliable outcomes.
  • Poke-yoke or fail-safe strategies makes process less dependent on operators.
  • Defect Data Capture Tools – Start recording all abnormal condition efficiently. Abnormal reporting is key to averting costly customer complaints.

Strategy Deployment

Strategy Deployment Process - Capturing annual goals and supporting activity on one page (layered spreadsheet) based on ‘Hoshin planning’. This establishes a clear line of sight linked to functional and individual’s accountability and monitoring through the year. This facilitates progress tracking of shared vision & helps to maintain focus.