Lean Manufacturing and Lean systems thinking
Delivery and Deployment
We offer an in house service for the training and support of your lean journey. Depending on the outcome you require, even from a one off training intervention all the way to the establishment of a lean operating system for your facility
Critical Factors and Critical Task assessment
Analysis of needs
As a starter to understand where you are on your lean journey we can assess your capabilities and processes to bench mark against world class thinking and then develop a deployment plan or tailored interventions for you to decide how you would like to proceed with you improvement opportunities
Roles and Responsibilities
Every one should know what part they play
From senior leadership to team members every one should know what part they play in delivering productivity and efficiency in the business. From senior leaders conveying the strategy and ensuring there are no barriers or hurdles to deliver the approach and all team members contributing and their contribution valued.
Why people believe in us
“Acorns approach to analysing the problem then helping to empower the operators to find solutions to problems has proved invaluable. Not only did we improve the layout and materials handling, but introducing the shop floor operators to Kanban controls have helped increase the workflow. The working environment has become less stressful and quality .”
Rebekah Cave,
SE electronics
The skill set delivered gave us a standard set of tools and techniques we can use from day to day to keep the business going forward. We have not only achieved the set exercise objective of reducing warranty returns by over 40%, to less than 1% of shipped product, our efficiency has moved forward by over 20% and this trend continues.
Managing Director Plymouth engineering company
The Leadership Development Programme helped us identify areas where we could make improvements not only in processes but also in leadership and management skills. This has enabled us to realise major benefits in our day-to-day working practices and culture. We are now in a position to fully maximise our potential and are very optimistic about fulfilling our plans for future growth.
Madelaine Taylor, Operations manager , Composite business Bournemouth
“The first time I tried this company, I was hooked. Everything was so easy to understand and trained out with enthusiasm. I’ll never go back to anyone else.”
Sheila Marks, Reading