Poris and Associates will work with you to assess current efficiency levels, map out opportunities for major improvement, and help you eliminate waste in your operations and those of your suppliers.
Much of Lean Manufacturing can be characterized as "Common Sense".
What we mean by this is that frequently, the actions we, as process designers (or "improvers") take are things like making sure the operators take fewer steps, that their work loads are "balanced" in comparison to the other operators, eliminating (or rigidly controlling) "bottlenecks" in the process, making sure we don't starve critical operations, and generally making operations as efficient as they can be.
We believe that eliminating wasteful steps or processes, error-proofing operations (to make it impossible for an operator to do it "wrong"), organizing work areas properly, and standardizing operations are best driven by experienced people who have lived with awful processes producing terrible quality.
We understand that a process is a process is a process. The type of process, the technology, the industry, are unimportant. Every process has inputs, outputs, and what you do in-between. Those things can (and need to be) quantified, defined, understood, documented, refined, and optimized.
We have worked across a VERY wide variety of industries and technologies. We can help to make your operations and processes efficient, or "Lean", by working with your own experts in your own technology and industry..
Some of the Lean techniques we employ include:
- Assessment of current capability
- Value Stream Mapping/Analysis
- Cycle Time Reduction
- Process/Logistics Optimization
- 5S
- Sustainable, long-term supplier relationship building
- Waste elimination
- Poke-Yoke (error-proofing)
Contact us today to discuss how we can help make your processes more efficient and effective, more "Lean". Call us at 248-535-9576, or email John Poris at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.