Accelerated Route to Efficiency programme (ARtE)

Our Accelerated Route to Efficiency (ARtE) programme

For Manufacturers to survive and grow in today’s highly competitive business world, having world-competitive capability tends not to be an option, it is a necessity.

Designed specifically with Manufacturing businesses in mind, our ARtE (Accelerated Route to Efficiency) programme is about a quick and simple path to efficiency for manufacturers. It is recognised by Manufacturers who want to rapidly improve business performance (office & shop-floor) because is it is the answer to true efficiency for all manufacturing environments. Market competition, regulations, and red tape are cited to be the major obstacles to success for manufacturing businesses – according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Help is at hand from practical practitioners (doers not report writers) who can help you deliver practical, tried, tested, and proven techniques that will rapidly impact your bottom line.

Currently, when it comes to building digital products and services, traditional external service providers tend to deploy generalist teams, massively undervaluing the role of design and the end-user experience. Such engagements are most often over-represented by people with a business or an IT background.

Working directly with the decision-makers, and cutting out middle management is our way to build more efficient and straightforward relationships, because, let’s face it – in a fast-moving digital economy, businesses cannot afford protracted times to market pipelines in favour of bureaucracy and multiple approval layers.

We engage cross-functional talent to deliver what your business needs across safety, quality, cost, delivery, and people. Helping develop new ways of working such as the ability to solve problems that would normally take months, into weeks and days.

By moving away from traditional external service provider methods and focusing on a modern approach fit for today’s digital economy, we keep things highly efficient and produce tangible business outcomes for Manufacturers.

Consider the fact, often overlooked, that your Manufacturing Critical-path Time (MCT) includes your administrative processes preceding your actual production processes, and is often encountered in make-to-order or even engineer- or configure-to-order environments. Also consider that unlike the time in a Value Stream Map (VSM) where time is visualised, the MCT shows waiting time proportionally to the time in which the part is actually touched. And the releasing of constant work packages (in terms of required capacity) instead of just work orders, ARtE much applies the principles behind workload levelling – from an efficiency perspective.

For a significant ROI – our value and performance-based pricing model enables you to nominate up to 12 delegates for less than £210 per day.

Benefits of ARtE

• A low-cost opportunity with the support of highly experienced practitioners
• Pragmatic tools & techniques for rapid implementation impact
• Practical clinics to address performance challenges
• Easily accommodated within a typical hectic business schedule – just 1 day per week for 6 weeks (with a final week assessment) or 2 days per week for 3 weeks.
• The opportunity to access a high-achieving, experienced and supportive manufacturing network

Programme structure and content

• ‘Learn by doing’ combination of unique insights, workshops, motivating, and engaging sessions with highly experienced practitioners.

Workshop 1: Efficiency Thinking (designed to embrace delegates into efficient thinking, unpacking the key components of an efficient environment)

• The wastes of business
• Journey of change principles

Workshop 2: Business Mapping (Designed to enable you to create visibility, understand the scope and limitations of your manufacturing process types)

• Manufacturing process definition (types and options)
• Process evolution and cellular options

Workshop 3: Problem Identification (Applying mapping techniques to your own environment to identify process challenges)

• Mapping your own environment
• Constructing and analysing your map (Wastes)

Workshop 4: Root cause analysis/Quality tools & Techniques (Understanding basic tools that can be applied in defining and resolving the underpinning causes of process problems)

• Mapping – targeted improvement opportunities from workshop 3
• The ‘5 Why’s, Problem-solving techniques, Push v Pull – live example, 7 QTs

Workshop 5: TPM/OEE & Changeover Reduction (The impact of systems and layout, VA v NVA & Waste, Availability/Productivity/Quality measures of OEE)

• Demand management and workplace layout impact
• Synchronising demand profiles and changeover reduction

Workshop 6: Leadership and Inventory management (Culture and relationships – Flow and pull techniques to manage material movement)

• Behavioural requirements in an efficient environment (including team types and coaching)
• Push and Pull systems