Key Services

SWMAS can provide sustainable improvements to your manufacturing business in three key areas:

Operational Improvement and Lean Manufacturing

• Hands-on support to identify specific improvement needs and to select appropriate solutions

• Quality - reduced rejects and customer complaints
• Cost - increased productivity, machine performance & space utilisation, reduced stocks
• Delivery -Improved lead-times and on-time delivery performance

Strategic Management Programme

• Understanding underlying performance and drivers for the business
• Agreeing a core purpose and direction, setting agreed goals
• Creating new opportunities for profitable growth
• Identifying changes required to ensure success, and creating a robust plan of action
• Supporting the business to deliver the changes and help remove obstacles to progress

Product Innovation

• Shorter product introductions
• New ideas for new products and new features
• Project management
• Links to information and research on new materials / processes

How we deliver our services:

1. Telephone 0845 608 3838
2. Internet www.swmas.co.uk
3. Manufacturing Review an initial assessment of your operation to identify target areas for improvement.
4. Diagnostic working with your employees to collect data on your manufacturing processes and plan appropriate improvements
5. Consultancy projects scoped and agreed with you to meet specific business goals

The following modules are available for delivery by our Specialists or approved associates:

• 7 wastes
• Visual management
• Communications briefing
• Team building
• Overall equipment effectiveness - OEE
• TPM
• Problem solving
• Change management
• Process system audits
• Standard operating procedures - SOPs
• SMED / Set-up reduction
• Kanban / Flow management / JIT / Pull
• Concurrent engineering
• Value stream mapping
• Process mapping
• Cellular Manufacturing
• Takt time & line balancing
• Capacity planning
• Poke Yoke
• Statistical Process Control - SPC
• Failure mode effect analysis - FMEA
• Layout improvement
• 5S / 5C
• SC21
• Strategic Management Programme
• Product Innovation
• Project management