Lean MFG

Lean MFG is a Manufacturing Consulting firm in West Valley City, UT, located at 3757 Chatterleigh Road. The practice is led by Tim Ward, who founded the firm in July of 2000. The consulting services focus on optimizing business performance and increasing the value of client firms. The approach emphasizes process optimization over individual workstation improvements, addressing how tasks flow across different internal functions. The firm utilizes a combination of Theory of Constraints, Lean Thinking, and Six Sigma to improve throughput, eliminate waste, and reduce variation. Ward has taught Project Management, Operations Management, and Organization-wide Process Diagnostics and Repair at the collegiate level. The firm has completed full plant layouts for ten plants across eight different industries.

The consulting methodology follows a specific sequence of continuous process improvement. It begins with Theory of Constraints to identify and relax sequential central constraints that limit throughput. This is followed by Lean Thinking to eliminate waste and increase efficiency. Six Sigma is then applied to eliminate variation in specific workstation or service-delivery issues. The firm distinguishes between quality of design and quality of execution, using the first two methodologies to address customer needs and Six Sigma to perfect operational execution. The practice operates on principles that prioritize understanding why processes work, favoring steady improvement over instant perfection, and classifying mistakes as opportunities for process improvement.

Client results include reducing diamond drill bit throughput time from ten days to one day. Production time for automatic pool cover fabric dropped from one and a half days to forty-five minutes. Intellectual property processing time decreased from two years to under eight weeks. Payment intervals for a cleaning equipment manufacturer were reduced from seventy-five days to six days. Product travel distance from start to completion decreased by sixty-five percent. The firm offers free thirty-minute consultations to help organizations apply these tools to their own processes.

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