Kittleson Consulting offers a broad spectrum of manufacturing operations consulting services including:
- Consultation
- Studies
- Surveys
- Audits
- Training
- Coaching and implementation in many areas of the manufacturing function
Productivity improvement, including:
- Improved utilization of existing productive capacity
- Increased productivity of hourly and salaried personnel
- Development and installation of improved methods
- Identification and elimination of capacity bottlenecks
- Development and improvement of performance controls
- Implementation, improvement and replacement of labor standards program including:
- Direct Labor
- Indirect Labor
- Wage Incentive
- Measured Work Day
- MTM
- Time Study
- Standard Data
Process Improvement / Team Based Management
Survey of Manufacturing Operations with Recommendations for Improvement (cost reduction)
In-Plant Training Programs for first-line supervisors, staff, personnel, and other management people
including:
- Labor Studies Program
- Manufacturing Improvement
- Worker Motivation
- Management Skills
Planning for change in physical facilities
- Expansion
- Consolidation
- Plant Layout
- Cost Analyses
Material Handing
Warehouse Planning and Layout
Value Engineering