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Operations/Lean Consulting

Sometimes as you pursue operational excellence, an outside perspective is helpful. The Frontline Training Solutions team can be that extra help for your team. Our team of seasoned professionals can provide onsite solutions for a host of manufacturing, operations, and workforce situations. Available to consult by the hour or project we are standing ready to help you create the solution you need.

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What Is Operations and Lean Consulting?

Our Operations and Lean consulting services are in place to help you grow your business, increase capacity, increase profitability, and drive up efficiencies. We do this by meeting you where you are to help us understand your business and particular set of goals or needs and then applying decades of operational experience to work toward a solution. Whether you need Lean training, an operational overhaul, or simply a consult on a  project to gain some advantage, Frontline Training Solutions can be your partner.

While Frontline Training Solutions is headquartered out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, our operations consultants are located throughout the country and able to serve any client location. 

Our operations consultants have the expertise to help businesses in multiple ways, including:

Lean

  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Tools of Lean: Kanban, Supermarket, Load-Leveling, Takt Time Clocks, Daily Metrics
  • Visual Factory
  • Continuous Improvement
  • 5S-Workplace Organization and Cleanliness
  • Kaizen
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • Material Handling Route Development
  • Work Instruction
  • Standardized Work

Production

  • Work Cell Station Layout
  • Production Scheduling Tool Development
  • Schedule Attainment
  • Cascaded Goals and Actions
  • Production Line Management
  • Feeder Cell Development

Program Development

  • Project Management
  • Quality Systems
  • Safety Programs
  • Work Cell Housekeeping Program

Workforce Management

  • New Employee Orientation and Onboarding
  • Supervisor Selection and Mentoring
  • Team Performance Dynamics
  • Culture Shifting
  • Cross Training Matrix Development

At Frontline Training Solutions, we’re passionate about helping companies find the best operations and lean solutions to their workplace challenges. Our consultants won’t just give advice from afar; they’ll “join your team” to help you identify the root of your challenges and develop systems to improve team efficiency and effectiveness.

Benefits of Operations/Lean Consulting

There are many benefits to working with an Operations/Lean consultant, including:

Fresh Eyes
An Operations/Lean consultant can move through your organization with a new perspective, fresh eyes, and no pre-conceived idea of what has taken place previously. This can sometimes be the difference between stepping off in a great new direction or being stagnant.

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Ready to make forward progress with your operation’s capacity, efficiency, profitability, engagement, and waste reduction? Contact us today to learn more.

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