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Where we work with you

The checks are the way in. The work goes further.

Behind every check is the full breadth of operations and procurement work. Whatever a check uncovers, we can help you act on it, across the areas where cost, delivery and quality are decided, and help your own team build the skills to keep it going.

Capabilities

Seven areas, one partner.

Operations and factory performance

Output, quality and delivery you can rely on, from the plant you already have.

  • OEE and bottlenecks
  • Scrap, rework and first-pass yield
  • Planning and on-time delivery
  • Daily routines that hold the gains
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Technical purchasing and direct materials

Paying the right price for the parts and materials you buy, backed by facts, not guesswork.

  • Spend and price analysis
  • Should-cost models
  • Negotiation preparation and support
  • Cost reduction that protects quality
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Supplier strategy and development

A supply base that is resilient, capable and working with you rather than against you.

  • Supplier selection and second sources
  • Single-source risk
  • Supplier performance and development
  • Part approval and supplier quality
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New product introduction and launches

New products, variants and customers brought to market on time, at the right cost and quality.

  • Right-sized launch process and gate reviews
  • Design for manufacture and assembly
  • Supplier readiness for launch
  • New customer and market requirements
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Industrialization and ramp-up

From prototype to stable series production, with processes, tooling and people ready for volume.

  • Process and equipment planning
  • Tooling, layout and a first automation step
  • Process validation and capability
  • Ramp-up to stable output
More about industrialization and ramp-up →

Practical AI for the factory

AI only where it moves a number you care about, starting from the data you already have.

  • Tied to factory KPIs such as OEE, scrap and on-time delivery
  • Small pilots before any investment
  • Supplier-risk monitoring and faster cost estimates
  • Independent: no software to sell
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Building your team

Project management capability building

Your own team running launches, improvement work and customer projects with confidence, long after we step back.

We train and coach your people in practical project management, shaped to the size of your business, and leave behind light tools and templates your team keeps and actually uses.

  • Planning that holds
  • Spotting and handling risks early
  • Keeping customers, suppliers and colleagues on board
  • Launch discipline and gate reviews
  • Light tools and templates your team keeps
About project management capability building →

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Talk to us about our capabilities.

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