Lean Manufacturing

In our rapidly changing world, new technologies, shrinking product life cycles and quickly shifting consumer tastes represent formidable obstacles to sustained business success. Now more than ever, companies need solutions that provide immediate results but do not require major investments.

Lean, pioneered by Toyota in the 60’s, is one of the best tools a business can use to fulfill customer demands while expending less human effort, capital, space and development time. The mechanics of Lean Manufacturing are well known: create flow by organizing a factory according to value streams; reduce setup times; reduce lead times; improve quality. Most companies stall in their efforts, never to get beyond the "low hanging fruit" and 5S activities.

Argo's approach is to generate excitement at all levels by delivering substantial bottom-line improvements in a matter of weeks. In just two to three weeks we develop a comprehensive Lean Transformation plan with a detailed list of Lean projects including clearly defined savings and timelines. On the third or fourth week we begin implementation together with your people.

Typical results we have achieved for our clients:

• Productivity (sales per employee) improvements of 20-40% per year
• Delivery lead time reductions of more than 75%
• Inventory reductions of 40-80%
• On-time delivery improvements of 99+%
• Defect reductions of 50% per year
• New product development time reductions of 80%
• Annual capital expenditures reductions of 50% per year
• Space reductions of 20-50%
• Setup time reductions of 20-70%
• OEE increases of 20-50%
• ROA improvements of 100+%