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