Industries Served
The thing that most impressed me about TBM, and I’ve never seen it anywhere else, is the loyalty and satisfaction of their clients... To me, it’s just extraordinary.
Alex Taylor, Board of editors
Fortune Magazine
Food & Beverage:
TBM can help accelerate the returns from your process improvement efforts, release pent-up capacity and dramatically lower per case costs. Expected results include order of magnitude improvements in cleanliness, best-in-class equipment reliability and capacity utilization without stops and starts or slowdowns, optimal process yield with no wasted ingredients or giveaways, and highly-visual, demand-responsive factories. From frozen foods, dairy, ingredients, beverages and food packaging, we’ve worked with food and food-related manufacturers around the world to make rapid progress at stand-alone and multiple-site facilities.
Industrial Products:
Erratic and unpredictable consumer demand is contributing to inventory build-up, product obsolescence, and missed sales opportunities for many industrial brands. TBM has helped industrial products manufacturers become self sufficient, reduce working capital, accelerate the pace of change and sustain their gains. Many have experimented with continuous improvement with diminishing returns. TBM can help develop and execute an effective lean roadmap and quickly internalize your continuous improvement capabilities. You’ll learn to fully leverage a lean business system to grow profitably while creating tight alignment between production and demand, streamlining inventories, developing market-leading order-to-shipment times, and designing ubiquitous visual control and quality indicators. We serve automotive parts suppliers, electrical equipment manufacturers, metal fabricators, chemical producers, makers of plastic parts, heavy equipment and machinery manufacturers, furniture, and more.
Consumer Products:
From durable goods manufacturers plagued by the current recession to fast-moving packaged goods manufacturers profiting and growing from expanded demand, consumer products companies are seeking differentiation to drive double-digit sales growth, bottom line profit improvement, flexibility, responsiveness, rapid product commercialization and launch, and supply chain improvements. TBM consumer products clients make luxury home products, building supplies, appliances, mattresses, batteries, apparel, household staples, toiletries, and packaging for the products that consumers buy every day. We have worked with these companies around the world to increase productivity and respond to demand fluctuations and rising materials and labor costs. Our solutions include energy conservation and waste elimination, brining new products to market quickly at the targeted cost and quality, creating highly visual, demand-responsible factories and supply chains, shortening delivery times, eliminating backlogs, and establishing lean business performance measurement systems to sustain gains from your continuous improvement activities.
Medical Products:
With an aging population, a growing global population, new diseases, the increase of emerging markets, and the trend towards globalization, medical products manufacturers continue to invest heavily in R&D to introduce new technology for its customers. TBM has helped medical product and device companies eliminate order backlogs, improve quality, and increase productivity. Other challenges include: leveraging Policy Deployment to focus on breakthrough developments, streamlining the R&D process, simplifying regulatory compliance, improving customer responsiveness, freeing up capital to invest in new acquisitions, removing capacity constraints, and rapidly integrating new acquisitions. We serve manufacturers of surgical appliances and supplies, surgical and medical instruments, and medical laboratories.
Railways:
Government agencies and private companies throughout the world are allocating significant funding for new locomotive fleets and cars, equipment rehabilitation and upgrades, rail infrastructure expansion, new mass transit lines, and the development of high-speed rail systems. TBM has worked with rail clients such as Norfolk Southern, Alstom, Virgin Trains, and Eurostar to optimize customer value and expand their competitive advantage by focusing on safety, schedule adherence, asset utilization and cost. We help railways clients to increase capacity without adding equipment, optimize capital spending programs, speed up turnaround times in the station and depot, shorten maintenance cycles, increase train reliability, and improve customer service and cleanliness. Our recent emphasis on policy deployment has helped clients to prioritize improvement opportunities and improve strategy execution.
Service Industries:
Guidon Performance Solutions, a TBM Consulting Group company, supports organizations with Lean and Six Sigma Transformations within financial services, government, healthcare, retail, technology, and other service sectors. Guidon helps these organizations quickly realize and sustain breakthrough execution and operational performance.
The Guidon consulting team is ready to work with your organization to help you achieve focused strategic direction, organizational alignment and rapid deployment. With a proven execution model that is adaptable and scalable to your precise needs, as well as harnessing today’s most powerful improvement tools, Guidon will consistently meet or exceed the objectives of your business initiatives.
