Manufacturing flow provides a cost-effective way for small and mid-size manufacturers to optimize their business systems. The implementation of manufacturing flow strategies can help your company do more with less.
In order for manufacturers to supply products to distribution channels, processes must be flexible enough to respond to market changes and must also accommodate mass customization. There are barriers to this process, including long set-ups and changeovers, unreliable manufacturing, poorly designed systems, cumbersome paperwork, and problems in transportation and logistics.
Whether a company wants to improve one area or achieve holistic operational improvement, Thomas Group's manufacturing flow strategies can provide optimal rewards. Process Value ManagementTM (PVMTM)provides a synchronized flow of product achieved with maximum speed, flexibility, and distance. We use PVM to develop a common understanding throughout the organization and effectively change the traditional mindset toward a new culture of speed, agility, simplicity, and velocity of product flow. We focus on major problems utilizing an 80-20 approach where 80% of the desired results come from 20% of the improvement.