EXAMPLES

Marketing

 Market a new product
 Create a new service
 Conduct an analysis of the product’s functions to redesign / replan the product:
 Check process capabilities, and ways of measuring them
 Start up experiment plans and FMEA for products
 Reduce the number of product references and the slow personnalisation of the product
 Reduce guaranteed maintenance intervention on the client’s premises

Flow: stock in production, finished stock, lead times

 Improve your on time deliveries / service levels
 Map the industrial flow and reorganise the flow and shop floor
 Reduce lead times and time cycles
 Reduce your stocks (both finished and in production)
 Reorganise your factory and its flows
 Predict customer demand on production, create a Manufacturing and Sales Plan

Production and services
 Increase product and service quality
 Reduce waste / rejection levels
 Limit the number of employees, temps and investment at times of increased work load
 Reduce costs / prices and added value in each stage of production and distribution
 Increase machine performance - operators, motivation at work
 Increase management performance throughout the company - management coaching
 Put TPM in place (Method: Total Productive Maintenance)
 Increase performance and autonomy of workers (Methods: Lean Management, Kaizen)
 Reduce breakdowns (Method: FMEA)
 Reduce time taken between shifts (Method: SMED)
 Put in place action plans and performance indicators

Financial
 Evaluate financial assets (machines, buildings, studies, software, business)
 Identifity return on investment
 Re-industrialise an industrial site

In the case of a hand over for sellers and buyers evaluate the business’s strengths and weaknesses, the potential profit, means, lead times, and action plans to meet them: participation in the evaluation of the business, follow up and carrying out of action plans: pre-sale and post-sale.