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LEAN Coaching & Implementation
Carefully planning your operational procedures can dramatically reduce lead-time and inventory. LEAN Tools and Techniques can help by:

1. Improving product quality.
2. Reducing inventory.
3. Shortening lead times.
4. Eliminating waste and scrap.
5. Increasing shop floor utilization.
6. Increasing customer responsiveness.

Adopting a LEAN Manufacturing approach to improvement helps companies become faster and more responsive to customer requirements. As a LEAN approach is adopted, resources can be more effectively used to increase a company’s capacity and capability.

To gain the full benefits of LEAN Manufacturing, Northern Initiatives works with you to evaluate your facility and manufacturing processes.  Next, we work with your executive team to develop a roadmap for implementing profitable solutions in your company.

Our LEAN training and implementation programs are based on a proven LEAN model.  Evidence demonstrates that this model reduces the time it takes to convert a customer order into cash by eliminating waste.

Kaizen Team Facilitation
A Kaizen event is an opportunity for management and line workers to work together to solve manufacturing problems or improve manufacturing processes.
You can expect these things to happen at your Kaizen event

For more information concerning business consulting services contact Ruth Solinski, VP Consulting, at (906)226-1673 or rsolinski@niupnoth.org.

Northern Initiatives serves as a regional office for the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC) which is a partner in the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the Department of Commerce and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.