CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT 
& LEAN ENGINEERING

We are here to help you choose the right lean tools and methodology, creating a continuous improvement culture, which will remove the burden of inefficiency and empower your team! Kaizen, Six Sigma, Gemba, 5 why’s, 5S, 8D, Kanban, Muda the list of tools is huge. Choosing the right tools for your business will increase efficiency/productivity, improve quality, reduce waste and save cost. By using lean methods, you can increase a projects visibility to key shareholders and clients, improve change management and predict your costs.

LEADERSHIP * PEOPLE * PROCESS * TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY * ENGINEERING

Do you still here any of these phrases in your workplace? 

Maybe you are guilty of saying them?  Yes the way it’s always been done may work but is the most efficient way?


TIME FOR A CHANGE!

  • “I don’t have time.” ~ Dill Doe
  • “You’ve got some big shoes to fill.” ~ Anna Fender
  • “It’s always been this way.” ~ Dr. Urich Hunt
  • “Doesn’t matter; it’s only a small issue anyway.” ~ Wayne Kerr
  • “Do what I tell you to do. I’m the boss.” ~ Martha Fokker
  • “Don’t waste my time; we’ve already tried that before.” ~ Jack Haas
  • “You don’t need to understand why we’re doing it this way.” ~ P. Ness
  • “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” ~ Dinah Soares
  • “We’ve always done it this way” ~ Prof. Stan D. Still
  • “I don’t get payed enough for that.” ~ Tom Morrow
  • “Not in my job description” ~ Bob S. Worth

ASSESS

In order effectively and efficiently grow your business; you need to know your value stream. Creating a value stream map is essential to prioritise your lean planning. 

Now we can scope the areas to remove or reduce "waste" in value streams, thereby increasing the efficiency of a given value stream. Waste removal is intended to increase productivity by creating leaner operations, which in turn make waste and quality problems easier to identify.

Create KPI’s to measure your success. 

DESIGN

After the assessment is performed, areas of inefficiencies and/or opportunities for increased value of Engineering design may be identified.
Design can be physical, procedural or training changes to process, services or products. 
  • Physical: Reducing the number of components or steps in the manufacturing process.
  • Procedural: Reducing the time taken to document by introducing technology such as automated monitoring or use of tablets.
  • Training: Wastage and quality can be improved by increasing the competency of the employee. 
The design phase may go through multiple stages before implementation. We will use your in-house experts (your employees) to polish and develop the design.
We will create the implementation and validation project plan and assist with the delivery to ensure success. 

IMPLEMENT

Implementation is a critical step to ensure production continues without disruption. Planning needs to be agreed by senior leaders and employees who will be implementing the improvements. Ensuring operating procedures are correct and training has been delivered prior to the introduction is key. 

MBT Engineering can complete the design, build of any equipment or procedure, write all operation procedures and deliver the required training to ensure success! 

VALIDATE

Validation is the most important step for continuous improvement. The KPI’s created in the assess stage will be used to measure the success of the changes and monitor performance. Continuous improvement means you are always looking to improve. 

MBT Engineering will ensure improvements are duplicated across all areas of the business and new areas of improvement are identified. 

Technology moves fast, make sure your business is ahead of your competitors!