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Our Consultancy's
Practice Areas

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Process Improvement

Cut your costs thanks to lean manufacturing tools and preventative maintenance, and engage the workforce to make it sustainable.

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Process Control & Quality

Apply statistical process control and mistake proofing where they make sense, set up a strong quality system, and train the staff.

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Supply Chain & ERP

Organize your procurement, production planning, inventory control, and warehouse management in order to support your objectives.

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Factory Turnaround

Fix processes and organization with strong support from technical & management specialists, and then work toward excellence.

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New Factory Setup

Follow the right steps to get to production launch in great conditions. Good project management, from site choice to process layout.

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NPI & APQP

New Product Introduction is a process and it involves the manufacturer deeply. Don’t skip any step and launch as fast as possible.

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Why work with our lean consultants?

Quality Improvement

We improve processes so that the most common problems don’t take place again. In addition, we put in place a solid quality system.

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Practical Experience

Our senior consultants have operational experience in China. We are light on theories, heavy on practice, and focused on tangible results!

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Cost Control

We work on productivity improve­ment, material consump­tion reduction, and related KPIs that dir­ectly impact the manufacturer’s cost structure.

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Reasonable Pricing

Our services are not for large companies only. We target SMEs as well. And the factory often accepts to pay 100% of our consulting fees.

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Less Delays

We increase speed and flexibility by reducing setup times and batch sizes. We combine several operations in a flowing cell to compress lead times.

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Strategic Partners

We work hand in hand with a recruitment & training agency, and with an executive coaching firm for Chinese executives, when their input is needed.

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What our Clients
say

  • Our Suzhou factory was unable to ramp up production to fulfill our sales. This caused a lot of missed deadlines on critical shipments, not to mention lost sales. CMC consultants used LEAN tools and immediately identified bottlenecks. They quickly elevated the factory's production capacity, and then worked on stabilizing processes and increasing efficiencies. They have done a great job, and we are now working with them on our 2nd and 3rd most critical factories in China.

     

    Operations Director
    (USA)

  • Our management team was not displaying the energy my partners and I expected of them. By working with them on a few meaningful metrics for each department, and teaching us how to hold "daily accountability meetings" CMC created noticeable change in our factory. Now our managers spend hours each day on improvement projects, rather than their daily routine operations.

     

    Site Director
    (China)

  • Our planning process started showing its limits when volume increased suddenly last year. We were not sure what to do. Did we need a more powerful ERP? Did we need a totally different approach? We were lucky to find CMC, who sent us a planning & purchasing specialist and immediately made very relevant recommendations. After one month the planning process and the communication among departments was already a lot smoother.

     

    Factory General Manager
    (China)

  • First, CMC was able to convince the owner of our main supplier in China to engage in an improvement program. Then, CMC consultants worked swiftly to implement improvements on a test production line. This created even further buy-in from the factory's ownership, who could see that CMC's approach yielded better quality and lower costs, and and allowed CMC to duplicate it throughout the factory. The resulting stronger and more reliable supplier has been invaluable for our business.
     
    VP Global Sourcing
    (USA)
  • After repeated quality issues we suggested one of our smaller manufacturers work with CMC in China. After the addition of just a few key jigs, and some additional training, they were able to turn the entire factory situation around. We were surprised at how quickly the results were visible.
     
    Head of Operations
    (UK)
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Lean Manufacturing & Factory Management
Blog Posts

4 Surprising Alternatives to Process Automation in Chinese Factories

As noted in earlier articles, the ROI of automating a production system is often pretty high, on paper. However, manufacturing robots can pose serious challenges.

The truth is, many automation projects fail. When the CMC team visit Chinese factories, we often see expensive machines that are either inactive, or used at a fraction of their capacity.

So, do factories have to choose between inertia (the same good old manual processes) and automated equipment? Fortunately, no. Here are 4 often-overlooked alternatives to process automation. Let’s go through them one by one...

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The 3 Most Common Challenges with Manufacturing Robots

You, or a supplier of yours, are planning to go for high-tech production automation and purchase manufacturing robots? Chances are, several suppliers have presented their solutions to you. The outlook seems rosy, and the decision leaves no space for doubt.

But have you considered the common challenges with manufacturing robots? Have you talked with other factories that have gone ahead with a similar initiative?

In this article CMC list a few challenges that you should probably expect and integrate in your costing model...

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4 Ways an Automated Production System Can Save Money

Automating production is all the rage these days. What is the purpose of removing human involvement from a process? It turns out, it can help a manufacturer save serious money.

CMC's lean manufacturing experts have gathered 4 ways an automated production system can cut costs for manufacturers in this blog post...

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