R. E. Consulting LLC specializes in helping small to medium-sized manufacturing sites improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. Whether we perform the work for our customers or conduct application workshops with their employees, the end results are better products, produced faster. Our collaborative consulting services will define wastes in your operations and develop a roadmap to eliminate those wastes. We can either implement this roadmap for your organization or facilitate its implementation. This latter approach will help you build internal lean manufacturing expertise in your organization.

Among the areas we help companies with are:

• Value-stream mapping
• Plant layout and workflow analysis
• Statistical methods
• Statistical process control (SPC)
• Design of experiments (DOE)
• Measurement system analysis
• Failure mode & effects analysis (FMEA)
• Lean Manufacturing concepts
• Mistake-proofing (poka yoke)
• Set-up reduction
• Downtime reduction
• 5 S’s (workplace organization)
• Cellular manufacturing
• Total productive maintenance (TPM)
• Problem-solving (8-D)/Root cause analysis
• Visual factory concepts
• Documentation
• Safety