 Powerful
competitive advantages are right on your plant floor. Using Lean, time-based principles
learned firsthand from Toyota, TBM helps transform manufacturers into engines
for sustained growth, without downsizing. We use LeanSigma®, our revolutionary
fusion of today’s most powerful improvement tools, to implement Lean and Six Sigma
in a single, coordinated effort – in a fraction of the time.
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Time-Base Management
 Wasted time, often
as much as 90% of any operation or process, is your biggest obstacle to achieving
and maintaining competitive advantage. TBM’s time-based improvement tools can
help you become more competitive every day by eliminating unnecessary time and
activity, with no additional capital investment.
The competitive implications are enormous:
- Dramatically reduced lead time
- Profoundly improved customer service and responsiveness
- Superior product quality
- Lower costs
- A new enthusiasm and team spirit
This can give you the power to redefine your marketplace and consistently outperform
competitors who are using less effective tools, such as automation and traditional
cost reduction.
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Kaizen Breakthrough Methodology
A Bias for Action
One of TBM’s primary improvement tools is our five-day Kaizen Breakthrough workshop.
On day one, we form dedicated teams with your people and share the concepts
and objectives we will implement. From then on, we are on the plant floor –
“seeing” time, identifying waste and reconfiguring the operation to achieve
one-piece flow. Teams are empowered to make immediate changes. At the end of
the week, each team has achieved dramatic operational improvements, of which
these are typical:
- Lead-time: Cut from days to hours
- Inventory: Reduced 90% or more
- Defects/errors: Down 50% or more
- Productivity: Up 25–50% or more
- Floor space: Reduced 25-50%
Numbers like these can transform your business – and with senior management
commitment, you can achieve them year after year.
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LeanSigma Value Chain Transformation
With a powerful foundation of Kaizen Breakthrough Methodology and Six Sigma tools, TBM can help you drive substantial, continuous business improvement across every part of your value chain. You will realize substantial new operational and cost efficiencies – from your product development process all the way to the customer. These improvements will also provide momentum for Lean culture change within your organization.
To contact a TBM manufacturing consultant and discuss your value chain transformation, fill out the form to the right.
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Time-Based Strategies
TBM’s consultants have many years of hands-on experience beyond the shop floor, helping manufacturing clients achieve major business process improvement in administrative areas and beyond their four walls.
The key, as on the shop floor, is to remove unnecessary time and waste – and compress lead times – to achieve new levels of responsiveness and operational efficiency. This work is critical if you want your improvement efforts to impact your customers.
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