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The Opportunity for productivity improvement

For any company, realising the best performance from all its available resources is fundamental to productivity and improved profitability

There are considerable opportunities to steamline business performance by identifying and tackling the symptoms of low productivity such as high stocks and work in progress, unnecessary costs of materials, labour and transport and poor quality.

Our Solution to improve productivity

CIF delivers Productivity Improvements by establishing cross functional teams to identify and measure the productivity issues. Typical tools and techniques include reducing cycle time, waste elimination, improving quality, balancing work and reducing bottlenecks.

Lean Masterclass can help

Business efficiency is often adversely affected by issues that typically include bottlenecks, poor quality, extended lead time, increased levels of work in progress and poor delivery achievement resulting in increased unit cost and customer dissatisfaction.

CIF Approach

Our Lean Masterclass is a structured approach to delivering rapid team improvement within commercial office, process and manufacturing functions. Typical benefits from our Lean Masterclass include cost of quality reduction, improvement in delivery schedule adherence, more stock turns, productivity improvement and a reduction in lead times.

CIF will work with your company to identify and develop a strategic business plan focused on clear annual objectives and the delivery of operational plans.

Our structured Orbit model includes some simple yet effective tools which:

• Create vision, values and mission
• Identify critical success factors
• Explore situational analysis including external market research and competitor factors
• Assess sales, marketing and brand strategies
• Review internal capacity and resources
• Establish clear measurable short, medium and long term goals

The opportunity 

Significant cost reduction can be achieved through the consolidation of multi site activities into one new site layout or though enhanced product flow through existing facilities.

A Factory Layout determines the way in which materials and other inputs like people and information flow through the operation and this influences costs and the effectiveness of the manufacturing operation. Getting it wrong can lead to inefficiency, inflexibility, large volumes of inventory and work in progress, high costs, long lead times and unhappy customers.

CIF Solution for factory layouts 

The CIF will help and support your team to understand the logical movement of people, materials and product through a factory which is essential when developing an efficient plant layout i.e. Factory layout. Typically, a layout would fall into the categories of job shop layout, cell layout and product layout.

The conclusion of our factory layout activity is a strategic project management plan including a high quality set of CAD drawings, project gantt chart coupled with contractor co-ordination and onsite support.

Our Experience

CIF have an enviable reputation for delivering high quality training programmes. Whether you are looking for cultural change, productivity improvements or just to give something back to your employees in the form of a nationally accredited qualification CIF can deliver. We run a wide variety of training programmes, from off the shelf to bespoke tailored programmes aligned to your business and employees need.

Bespoke Training Programmes

CIF can work with you to tailor programmes to suit your business and employee needs to deliver the most effective, cost effective training. Below are examples of the modules you can choose from to build your own training programme, if you do not see what you are looking for please call us.

• Leadership & Management Development
• Communication Skills
• Facilitation Skills
• Motivation
• Assertiveness
• Managing Change