Manufacturing and Operations Strategy Consultants
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DeHart Consulting, Inc. offers Operations management consulting services to manufacturing companies.
| AREAS OF FOCUS |
- Manufacturing Facility Design and Industrial Engineering
- Engineering of business and manufacturing processes
- Just-in-time implementations
- Supply Chain Strategy
- Outsourcing Decision Analysis
- Manufacturing Operations Strategy
- Manufacturing systems software implementations
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| PRIMARY MARKET |
- Technology Manufacturing Companies
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| STRENGTHS |
- Team-based Lean manufacturing principles
- Just-in-time, demand-pull implementation
- Cost and cost reduction analysis
- Simplification of material and production planning systems
- Product development and concurrent engineering processes
- Supply chain engineering
- New product innovation and introduction
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TEAM-BASED LEAN
MANUFACTURING PRINCIPLES |
- Bring the power of your manufacturing operations strategy to bear on team-based ownership of Customer Service. The best lean manufacturing organizations have learned how to focus individuals within the company and entities within the supply chain on serving the customer first.
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JUST-IN-TIME,
DEMAND-PULL
IMPLEMENTATIONS |
- Bring the power of your manufacturing operations strategy to bear on team-based ownership of Customer Service. The best lean manufacturing organizations have learned how to focus individuals within the company and entities within the supply chain on serving the customer first.
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- Do we outsource or implement our own manufacturing operation? What about hybrid structures?
- What path will lead to the lowest unit cost, working capital, and highest customer service levels?
- What Quality systems will we need to improve performance and dovetail with customers?
- Is an Enterprise Resource Planning System necessary, and at what point?
- How about Manufacturing Execution Systems?
- How much capacity will we need and what will it cost?
- How can location influence my competitiveness and where is the best fit?
- What service levels will our customers require?
These are all crucial questions that DCI helps its customers answer.
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Lockheed Martin's Focal Plane division in Goleta CA needed to increase capacity in its wafer fab and focal plane electronic assembly areas. After generating several preliminary designs, DeHart Consulting was hired to review the factory layouts within the context of lean manufacturing principles and to assist with the overall factory redesign efforts.