Process Improvement

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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) – Measuring Performance

Steve Palmer on 2015-10-16 One of the best methods of measuring how well a production line is running is Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). To help explain how OEE works, below is an example. Example I have a plant that I know runs at 10 tes per hour when everything is great. It runs 24 hours a day. That means in theory I Read More...

Lean Six Sigma – Improve Your Operation

Steve Palmer on 2015-07-16 It can be deeply frustrating to run a business knowing that the operation itself is flawed and costing you time, money or compromising quality. The good news is that there are ways to make changes that significantly reduce and, hopefully, eventually eradicate such problems. There are a range of strategies out there. Here at WLP, Read More...

Monte Carlo

Steve Palmer on 2015-03-13 Most people when I mention Monte Carlo will think of the French Riviera, or casino, or France. But it also stands for a method of predicting how well a process will operate. Every business owner or service organization knows that the demand for its goods or services varies from one day to the next. Our ability Read More...

Jump to a Solution (Systematic Problem Solving)

Steve Palmer on 2014-07-04 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 Read More...

Reducing Performance Guarantee Claims

Steve Palmer on 2013-10-23 A Norfolk company was paying out 5% of it’s turnover on performance guarantee claims. Using Six Sigma techniques the claims procedure was streamlined, customer service improved and the focus for quality improvement established. The time to deal with claims was reduced by 75%, in addition, expectations of reducing the claim rate and therefore the cost Read More...

Structureflex improves productivity to reach new sales

Steve Palmer on 2013-10-03 The company has manufactured flexible containers since 1970. The process used is quite unique and the growth in the business has placed the challenge to improve productivity to meet the growing order book, and to maximise the available resources. Working with the Managing Director and the Operations Manager we established a measure of the effectiveness Read More...