Steve Palmer on
I recently spent time with a client who had quite a few problems! Most businesses have problems, but these were costing a lot of money. Just to help these problems seemed to occur in a random manner. Many attempts to solve them had appeared to succeed (until they recurred), and some of them had disappeared
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The client develops seed coating technology and processes customers’ seed to enhance its planting and germination properties. They were experiencing significant growth and issues of capacity, product quality and consistency all need to be improved. We used our considerable experience in implementing Lean Six Sigma as an improvement process and tool box. The company trained a
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Wilson Lee on
Successful family owned manufacturing company need to adopt a new way of working by planning to move from a traditional operation, to one of cell working and lean manufacturing. We worked with a group of current and potential team leaders up-skilling and developing them to understand the new ways of working and enabling them to
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Wilson Lee on
WLP has worked with this business since it operated as a two-man business working out of a shed, and is now operating from an 8,000 sq ft industrial unit employing 25 people. This is the classic tale of not accepting a recession is the reason not to go for growth. The kitchens are bespoke, made
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Wilson Lee on
The company manufactures precision metal components, primarily for the UK domestic market. They had come under increasing financial pressure in recent years as the UK market declined and remaining customers looked to Far Eastern suppliers. They were interested in reviewing the benefits from Lean manufacturing techniques. We were able to assess their capacity for adopting
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Steve Palmer on
With 10,000 invoices received annually from external homecare agencies, this project was aimed at improving BVPI8, relating to the timely payment of invoices. The difficulty of reconciling invoices and management information was causing late payment and putting undue pressure on smaller providers. Lean Six Sigma and other techniques were used to understand the process and
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Structure-flex, Headquartered in Melton Constable, Norfolk, is one of the UK’s most successful providers of bulk packaging solutions and a leading supplier of vehicle tension curtains and lifting products. Needing to compete more effectively with global manufacturers, particularly from the Far East, Structure-flex asked WLP to devise and implement a manufacturing efficiency programme. Savings of
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