Ad hoc Services

Ad hoc Services

Project Management 

  • Delivered the iconic Gobbin's Walk-way
  • Harvey Nichols In-store Champagne Bar furniture
  • Increased OTDIF >28% (Food Company worth over 371million Turnover)
  • Delivered SC21 Silver Award within an aerospace company
  • Scrap Alert System - Implemented understanding necessary scrap, controls and costing initiatives and setting alerts. 
  • Implementation of In-house Shop Floor Data Capture
  • Warehousing sourcing, purchase, and transferring business
  • Warehouse in-house scanning system costings, controls, manning, training, recruitment, Procedures project.


Interim Management 


  • Specialised precision engineering.
  • Food sector
  • Manufacturing



Strategic Plans

  • Prepare a customised plans.
  • Connecting your business and people to purpose.
  • Stepping back from your day-to-day operations and articulating where your business is heading,
  • Setting long-term goals.
  • Objectives and priorities for the future.
  • Strategy Maps, Gap Planning, SWOT Analysis, PEST Model, Scorecards and Porter 5 Forces.


Skills and Training Gap Analysis 


  • Specialist and bespoke Skills and Training Matrices
  • Gap Analysis
  • Unique Skills and Training Matrix focused on CNC machinery within Aerospace engineering. Linking to HR appraisals, Performances, OEE, Productivity increases, reduction of Non-conformance Scrap and material handling.


This is an effective tool when used along with Continuous Improvement, Direct spending, Staff morale, EFQM Model and SC21 awards


Continuous Improvement & Road Mapping


  • Implementing Lean, Tools and Techniques - 5S, 8D, SMART, SWOT Analysis
  • Quality circles,
  • Root Causes,
  • Corrective Actions & Preventive Measures
  • FMEA's, Kaizen, Kanban, CSIP, & Action Logs
  • Succession Planning
  • Time-Studies
  • Value Stream Mapping, Workflow, Swim lanes, and Problem solving.


Automation & Industry 4.0


  • Reviewing in-house and scoping new Smart machines to link with traditional manufacturing processes and industrial practices, using modern smart technology.
  • Large-scale machine-to-machine communication (M2M) and the internet of things (IoT) are integrated for increased automation, improved communication and self-monitoring, and production of smart machines that can analyse and diagnose issues without the need for human intervention.


Machine Performance Verses Actual Cost


  • Reviewing costed jobs and parts verses actual running cost.
  • Providing Time-Study and identifying variations, standardising runners, repeaters and strangers.  Focusing on Economic Batch Quantities (EBQ)
  • Delivering OEE, review set up, start-up, running, change-over and shut-down costs. Finding the break even point.


Scrap Alerts & Analysis


  • Identifying scrap alerts on each machine and product, allowing necessary scrap to be factored into actual product and overhead cost.
  • Alerts set on product being manufactured, alerting the operative process has failed and review
  • Providing direction financially and identify products which have a high failure rate, or issues with machine or training/manning.


 Supply Chain Management


  • We manage the flow of goods and services, movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods as well as end to end order fulfilment from point of origin to point of consumption.


  • Interconnected, interrelated or interlinked networks, channels and node businesses combine in the provision of products and services required by end customers in a supply chain.


  • Outsourcing Warehousing, scoping the need, analysis, vendor and potential vendors, supporting their decisions, Vendor evaluation and selection, managing the transitioning process, managing the relationship with the vendor. Whilst monitoring vendor performance, relationship and dependency.






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