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Operations Excellence for Manufacturers and Distributors

Operations Excellence (OpEx) drives improvements in your plant in production, quality, uptime, delivery and cost.  We utilize a suite of Lean tools to make waste visible and eliminate it with root cause analysis and corrective actions.

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25% Increase in Plant Output Yields +50% Net Income

Productivity (P): Move from 60% to 85%
Quality (Q): Scrap and rework reduced from 10% to 3%
Uptime (U): Increase from 60% to 85%

OEE = P * Q * U

We can typically increase OEE 25% in less than 6 months


If net Income is already 10% of sales and net income moves to 15% of sales, it's a 50% increase in net income.

Operations Excellence Services

Financial Assessment and Action Plan

Estimated durations. Actual time varies due to complexity, size & information available.

Review Financial Documents

1 week

  • Review series of income statements
  • Compile performance reports
  • Understand variable and fixed costs and how net income is impacted
  • Pareto largest costs and develop action plans
  • Calculate SDE or EBITDA


Market Value Assessment

Estimated durations. Actual time varies due to complexity, size & information available.

Fulcrum123 Proprietary Market Value Assessment Tool

2 weeks

  • Meet with your team understanding your current business
  • Estimate current market value
  • Build a plan to increase your market potential


Optimize the Business

Estimated durations. Actual time varies due to complexity, size & information available.

Gather and Report Data for Baseline and Decisions

2 weeks

  • Hour-By-Hour boards at equipment
  • Plant Dashboard for production and all functionals
  • Scorecard for plant owner(s)
  • Train operators, plant leadership and owners

Increase Production, Quality and Uptime (OEE)

4 weeks

Utilize industry-leading Lean tools:

  • Staffing equipment
  • Increase productivity
  • Reduce change-over time
  • Cut scrap / rework
  • Improve uptime
  • Address delivery and lead time issues

Optimize Inventory

2 weeks

  • Days on Hand analysis
    • RM
    • WIP
    • FG
    • MRO
  • Remove excess & obsolete
  • Optimize safety stock, reorder points and order quantities

Problem-Solving and Root Cause Analysis

2 weeks

Train plant teams (including functional and office) in 5-Y, containment and corrective action


Planned Check-Ups

Most check-ups can be done in 2-3 days

30 Day Check-Up

1 week

  • Review Financials
  • Plant Tour
  • Review dashboards and scorecards
  • Managment interviews
  • Recommended actions to stay on course

90 Day Check-Up

1 Week

  • Review Financials
  • Plant Tour
  • Review dashboards and scorecards
  • Managment interviews
  • Recommended actions to stay on course

180 Day Check Up

1 week

  • Review Financials
  • Plant Tour
  • Review dashboards and scorecards
  • Managment interviews
  • Recommended actions to stay on course
  • Wrap-up with plant ownership

Check-Ups are the "rear view mirror"for accountability.

Fulcrum 123

Cleveland Ohio

216.326.6902

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