Operations performance
Throughput, yield, and cost per unit — diagnosed on the line, not in the deck.
- Case studies
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- Insight pieces
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- Practice leads
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Operations work starts with two weeks on site: one page of findings, signed by the plant manager, before any program is proposed. We measure where the units are lost — scrap, changeover, waiting, rework — and price each gap before choosing which to close.
Programs run in joint teams with the client's own engineers. Every intervention carries an owner, a weekly number, and a date. Published engagements report results twelve months after the invoice, not at kickoff.
The method in three moves
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Diagnose on the floor
Two weeks of shift-level measurement with the client's engineers. One page of findings, priced gap by gap.
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Fix the constraint first
The team works the bottleneck only: changeover practice, maintenance calendar, staffing pattern. No parallel forty-initiative list.
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Hold the gain
Scorecards and trained internal leads stay in place for twelve months after the engagement ends.
Industries where this capability has run
Case studies using this capability
Vantaal Aluminium
Mid-cap aluminium producer, two smelters and a rolling mill
−3.2% scrap rate
Kesselmann Werkzeugbau
Family-owned tooling and precision components group, 14 plants
+210 bps gross margin
Brendalen Special Vehicles
Niche vehicle manufacturer, three platforms, one new launch per year
Design freeze to stable rate: 41 to 19 weeks
Insight on this capability
Who leads this capability
Pieter van Dam
Partner · Rotterdam
Network design and depot operations
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Katharina Brandt
Partner · Munich
Factory network design and NPI gate discipline
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Dana Whitfield
Partner · Chicago
Margin recovery through pricing and cost-to-serve truth
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