Operational Optimization

We all know every operation could be improved, but by how much and with what kind of effort? We teach your personnel how to dissect and analyze any process to uncover waste in any form, including time, materials, motion, communication, investment, and anything else that isn’t contributing to the value of the process’ objective. Once waste is identified, we help you figure out ways to reduce and eliminate the waste. Solutions can be as simple as moving a piece of equipment a couple of feet or no longer reporting something that regularly happens, or as global as conducting product inspections prior to the product being loaded into the shipping container in Asia rather than weeks later when it’s being cross-docked for an expedited order, or worse yet when it’s in your customer’s hands.

Companies are experiencing pressure today to be Green, but it’s challenging to find opportunities to incorporate sustainable “green” practices in your business. Removing waste from all your business processes, from your interactions with suppliers all the way through to your post-sales customer support, will make your company truly Green. Let us enable your employees to remove waste from your business’ processes, which will give them pride in ownership for the resulting improvements and confidence to continue the process of improvement indefinitely.

Transforming operations
Leveraging supply chains
Designing and improving processes
Implementing Lean operations
Balancing agility and discipline in business practices
Supporting procurement and bid processes

“Even if the target seems so high as to be unachievable at first glance, if you explain the necessity to all the people involved and insist upon it, everyone will become enthusiastic in the spirit of challenge, will work together, and achieve it.”

- Ichiro Suzuki, chief engineer of the first Lexus
DID YOU KNOW...

that many practitioners have cited lack of commitment as one of the main reasons, if not the main reason, that Lean initiatives fail? Lack of commitment … by people at all levels and in all areas of an organization. We believe that Lean is much more than just a set of tools or methods. First and foremost it is about changing the hearts and minds of people and helping them to think, see and do things in a radically different way. We have been helping real people, in real organizations, do this for over three decades. Give us a call and find out how we can help you.

Criterion LLC

Operational Optimization