Return to Excellence Events

Do you have underperforming or failing processes? Production yields not what they should be?  We are experts in routing out waste and improving processes. Our Return to Excellence (RTE) events are quick and efficient and are designed to successfully transform manufacturing processes to class leading standards.

• Process mapping
• Measurement Systems Analysis
• Statistical Process Control
• Data capture and use of information

LPM holds return to excellence events regularly at our clients and are geared around fast rapid investigation and swift return on investment (ROI). Our return to excellence events are based on the Kaizen principle.

The Kaizen Event is a breakthrough workshop – planned, organised and facilitated to challenge and enable a cross-functional team of five to ten members to improve the designated process.

Changes are dramatic. Analysis, brainstorming and targeted actions deliver operational performance breakthroughs. The event requires significant preparation and focuses on improving material flow, information flow, and process quality. Follow-up finishes implementation and locks in gains through standard work instructions and can often lead to ongoing Six Sigma projects.

Key Benefits:

• Significant breakthrough change accomplished with measurable results
• Concentrated efforts by focused resources, during 3 to 10 day event – make it happen
• Cross-functional teamwork supports change to build a culture of increased cooperation
• Lean capability development through training and practice supports continuous improvement
• Bottlenecks are relieved to help increase product throughput to increase revenue
• Improved quality and efficient standard processes yield consistent results
• Events show the organisation that radical change is possible – so they embrace change

Activities:

• Propose kaizen targets and sequence to accomplish value stream transformation
• Select bottleneck targets to increase throughput while reducing inventory and operating expense
• Prepare for kaizen breakthrough event: materials, videotapes, area, team and objectives
• Facilitate team to analyse process and brainstorm improvements
• Encourage data-driven approach and aggressive performance improvement targets
• Direct and reinforce immediate implementation of significant changes in the workplace
• Define, assign and track activities to accomplish kaizen objectives
• Guide progress reviews and final report-out to reinforce team and involve organisation
• Follow-up on thirty-day action plan and process standardisation

If your improvement project is stalled or limping along, kaizen events may offer a solution. Resources consumed by day-to-day fire-fighting can focus on specific, tangible objectives in an area with sufficiently narrow scope to achieve breakthrough results in a short period of time. The results will speak for themselves.