Efficiency is what you need, especially in turbulent and uncertain times. Efficiency gives you room for whatever comes along.
Markets for your products are volatile and input costs are going up. Feeling out of control? What can you do?
Efficiency
With greater efficiency in your operations you can’t solve all the problems, but you can certainly solve the ones that are within your control!
The most reliable operations have less variability, lower operating costs, lower cost per unit, higher margins and flexibility to invest in getting better.
What holds you back?
Knowing what to do, how to do it, and fear of failure are big barriers.
None of us knows what we don’t know. We learn more all the time but we don’t always take advantage of what we learn. In many operations, efforts to drive efficiency through cost cutting have actually made things worse. They’ve actually cut into employee morale and willingness to go that extra mile by making positive suggestions. When you initiate changes, they resist.
Even learning gets stifled. Over time, the status quo becomes normal, even if it is well below what you could be achieving. Your employees believe they’ve seen it all and know how to keep things running smoothly. But could they achieve more? Probably. Maintenance and reliability are a bit like the canary in a coal mines. Problems there indicate worse throughout the organization.
Rapid Reliability Assessment
We have a low cost and quick assessment that evaluates what’s going on in reliability and maintenance. In doing so we spot problems in operations, production, logistics, stores, purchasing, human resources and even management practices. As outsiders we are not blinded by your day-to-day nor held back by internal politics.
Do you want to know what’s holding you back? Let’s talk!
