Missouri Business Management Consulting
for Manufacturing and Quality Systems

A Positive Effect on Your Bottom Line.

Quality is an abstract concept that needs focus and translation. For quality improvement to be successful, it must have meaning and have clear benefits for employees. Convincing them that quality improvement is worth their effort can be filled with pitfalls, especially if the quality focus is new or if the organization has changed directions often in the past.

During the various quality programs available to your organization through The Alliance, employees can be exposed to any of the following aspects of quality systems you choose.

The Individual's Role in Quality
The Leadership Role
Focusing Your Team on Quality
Building Commitment to Quality
Clarifying Customer Expectations
Sustaining Continuous Improvement Momentum
Problem Solving - Tools and Techniques
Root Cause Analysis
Statistical Process Control

Poor work place conditions lead to waste such as extra motion to avoid obstacles, time spent searching for things, and delays due to defects, machine failures or accidents. In many companies, employee teams use the 5-S system to improve and standardize work place conditions for safe and effective operation. The 5-S philosophy focuses on simplifying the work environment, reducing waste while improving quality and safety. The 5-S system includes:

SORT - Eliminate everything not required for the current work, keeping only the bare essentials.
STRAIGHTEN - Arrange items in a way that they are easily visible and access.
SHINE - Clean everything and find ways to keep it clean.
STANDARDIZE - Create rules by which the first 3 S's are maintained.
SUSTAIN - Keeps 5-S activities from unraveling!

Once your organization has implemented the 5-S philosophy the cornerstone for Lean Manufacturing is in place.

Lean Manufacturing - Overview or Simulation?

The Lean Overview is a great choice if executive management desires a look at Lean Manufacturing. The Overview gives the who, what, when, where, why and how so that the company's decision makers can decide if Lean is the direction they want to take their organization.

The Alliance's Lean Simulation utilizes a combination of traditional classroom training paired with an incredibly interactive simulation where participants actually work for a company. Additionally, attendees make a product, putting all the classroom concepts into practice out on the "shop floor" as they proceed through the simulation.

In the hands-on simulation, participants perform different jobs such as Industrial Engineer, Resistor Assembler, Trucker, etc., learning Lean Manufacturing concepts from an entirely different point of view than they normally do.