The Pickersgill Group LLC

Services

Identify the total profit opportunity between current operations and perfect performance:  No stoppages, slowdowns, quality defects, extra labor, waste or product giveaway.  Prioritize the individual causes of lost profit based on current business conditions.

Assessments

Map the flow of material and information within your operations and the total value stream.  Identify the value add activities, opportunities for  pull and inventory optimization and control.  Optimize changeovers and product sequencing.

Value Stream Analysis

Organize work to minimize wasted effort.  Lean cell creation.  Single piece flow for high value products.  Eliminate, combine, reduce and simplify process steps.  Create flexible configurations for labor optimization.  Applicable to both production and non-production areas.

Lean Design/Redesign

Develop the methodology and expertise to permanently eliminate problems to their root causes.  Create an environment of logic, fact and data; eliminating hand waving and rumor based knowledge in the work-place.

Problem Solving Workshops

 

For those clients looking for a cost effective longer term consulting relationship than just a single project, The Pickersgill Group LLC offers a retained services arrangement.  A fixed monthly fee purchases access to a consultant for both on-site and off-site services.

On-site services may include:

Training Workshops

Assessments

Value Stream Mapping

Applied Problem Solving

Lean analysis and workflow redesign

Improvement Cycle Implementation

Accounting for Improvement

Off-site services may include

      Strategic Business Planning

Problem solution methodology coaching

Action review meetings

Data analysis (manufacturing performance, inventory, quality)

Data tool development (Excel

Planning sessions

On-site time will typically be higher at the beginning of an engagement and taper somewhat as the relationship matures.  Scheduling is arranged by mutual consent to ensure this on-site time is high-value time.

Retained Services