Scott has a rigorous approach to attacking your problems, eliminating waste, and streamlining your processes.



APPLICATION OF LEAN PRINCIPLES

  • 5S – Develop comprehensive plans for routinely organizing and cleaning work areas
  • Visual Management – Identify critical elements within work areas so observers know that those work areas are “under control”
  • Single Piece Flow – Map process flows to reduce wasteful steps, drop throughput time, and increase velocity
  • Schedule Smoothing / Pull Systems – Understand supplier capacities and customer demands to find the most consistent production run schedules and reduce raw material and finished goods inventories
  • Versatile Operators – Develop training processes that maximize the utility of operators and provide flexibility to handle changes in production demand
  • Error Proofing – Find appropriate tools/methods to eliminate pass-through of defects
  • Rapid Changeovers – Determine processes and equipment required to reduce machine downtime while changing tooling
  • Total Productive Maintenance – Define appropriate procedures and schedules to minimize unscheduled (emergency) equipment downtime



CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  • Develop overall strategy for continuous improvement and set priorities based on opportunity for increased profit
  • Design, facilitate, and/or lead continuous improvement (kaizen) teams/projects
  • Track action items and verify results

DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS

  • Define data parameters to be collected
  • Write and conduct surveys
  • Conduct studies and/or research existing databases to develop appropriate variable and attribute data
  • Analyze data using statistical methods to draw conclusions
  • Issue recommendations based on data analysis

PROBLEM-SOLVING

  • Define problem statements
  • Collect appropriate data to understand the problems
  • Determine root cause(s) of the problems
  • Recommend appropriate short-term and long-term corrective action(s) with responsibilities and due dates
  • Verification of problem resolution