If you can dream it, you can do it.' -- Walt Disney

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. -- Theodore Roosevelt

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. --Henry Ford

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. -- Les Brown

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. -- Amelia Earhart

None of us is as smart as all of us. -- Ken Blanchard

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Improve is to change, perfect is to change often – Winston Churchill

If you can dream it, you can do it.' -- Walt Disney

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. -- Theodore Roosevelt

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. --Henry Ford

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. -- Les Brown

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. -- Amelia Earhart

None of us is as smart as all of us. -- Ken Blanchard

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Improve is to change, perfect is to change often – Winston Churchill

Experience and scope of involvement

 

Our experience is based on thirty four years working with big companies in Greece and abroad in foods and pulp and tissue paper manufacturing, with a wide range of assignments involving manufacturing management, project management and consulting. 

Our methodology, best practices and tools are based on the principles of lean management, TPM, Total Quality Management, and 6 Sigma and focuses in team building, integrative continuous improvement culture and problem solving. The areas of involvement include:

  • Production planning optimisation algorithm aiming at maintaining the lowest possible stocks and optimising the capacity utilisation in line with demand.

  • Optimisation of production batch size to maximise the customer service and reduce the stocks.

  • Continuous stock monitoring to align production with sales variability to optimise stock balancing and improve customer service (pull or demand driven supply chain).

  • Production lines efficiency monitoring (on-line, real-time) aiming at reducing equipment downtime (lost time reduction) Continuous improvement projects are used to eliminate weak points of the equipment and reduce change-over time. This is a powerful day to day decision support tool for management.

  • Maintenance planning reorganisation to achieve alignment with production (Total Manufacturing Planning - TMP) resulting in better supporting of business requirements.

  • Reduction or elimination of non-value adding activities for lead time reduction in line with the lean management concept.

  • Quality loss reduction (scrap and rework reduction) implementing 6-sigma methodology for process improvement.

  • Re-engineering of processing and packaging operations to improve productivity and process simplification by training multiskill operators and management levels reduction.

  • Factory Policy & Strategy formulation, documentation, deployment, monitoring and follow up to achieve operational excellence, cost competitiveness, alignment to capital investment plan and business targets.

  • Benchmarking studies using benchmarking model to identify the opportunities for improvement and asses the bottom line business effect. 

  • Coaching and team building to establish integrative and continuous improvement culture wall to wall in the supply chain.

  • Re-location of manufacturing plants to achieve synergies in relation to restructuring projects.

Photos from TPM audit by JIPM