CORE Implementation
Building Operational Excellence
Our Core Implementation is designed to help transform your company culture and support your teams toward operational excellence in as little as 90 days.
If your organization has tried Lean or Continuous Improvement before, and it became a flavor of the month, we can help!
This 3–6-month timeline delivers a process discipline culture that sustains gains in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity at all levels of the organization. This approach engages everyone in the organization to speak the same language and drives towards the common vision and goals.
We guarantee an ROI within 3-12 months!
We accomplish this by improving baseline metric improvements in the following areas…
Reduce near misses and safety incidences.
Safety
Scrap and rework reduction.
Quality
Improve on-time delivery.
Delivery
Direct and indirect labor.
Cost
Direct and indirect labor hours per unit.
Productivity
Employee turnover rate.
Reduce
Required floorspace.
Reduce
Lead time reduction, new product launch timeline reduction.
Throughput
Our Core Implementation Training Program
Core Implementation rapidly transforms organizations to thrive on the essential tools of Lean, Quality, Leadership and Continuous Improvement. This program builds the foundation that any organization needs to build a house of operational excellence.
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Find out where your strengths and weaknesses are in the areas of Lean, CI, Quality, Leadership, and Strategic Planning. SFM Group will learn about your organization through 1:1 interviews and a self-assessment survey.
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This 2-day experiential classroom training gets everyone in your organization speaking the same language through a hands-on simulation. This fun and engaging module is the secret sauce of how organizational transformation can be successful.
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SFM Group assists in defining the critical roles, authorities, skill, education, and training requirements for all positions within the organization. We also develop performance job reviews and link performance metrics to each position within the organization.
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All teams will learn how to document critical procedures, capture best practices, train using industry proven methods, and provide coaching and feedback for new team members. Optionally, SFM Group can also create onboarding and training videos to enhance the learning experience.
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Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) and Suggestion System – Allow the creative minds in your organization a voice to better improve processes. Teams will be trained to implement their own suggestions utilizing the PDCA improvement process.
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Everything has a place and everything in its place for a reason. Minimize the wastes found in the manufacturing and office environments through visual management and organizational tools. A heavy focus will be placed on sustaining the standards set.
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5 Ws and 2 Hs, and the 5 Whys
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Train, audit, and certify through quarterly check-in assessments.
The Benefits of CORE Implementation
ROI in 3-6 Months
12 Months on the Outside
Non-Traditional Approach
Fast Service/
Turn Around on Projects
Assistance in Applying
for Training Grants
Our Guarantee
Learn More About All of Our Services
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Our Core Implementation is designed to help transform your company culture and support your teams toward operational excellence in as little as 90 days.
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This 3–6-month timeline delivers a process discipline culture that sustains gains in safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity at all levels of the organization. This approach engages everyone in the organization to speak the same language and drives towards the common vision and goals.
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Dynamic Documentation is documenting and training best practices through engaging training videos. This method helps reduce training time for critical policies and procedures. While capturing key elements of your company’s processes, equipment, cells, software, and safety procedures, we can help you take your training to the next level.
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Lean manufacturing is all about eliminating waste to help the efficiency and effectiveness of your operations. When we say waste, we mean defects, overproduction, downtime, transportation, inventory, motion, extra processing, and unused talent. These are all getting in the way of your business’s operational excellence. We can help!
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We offer a 1-day or 2-day experiential workshop as well as a brand new, creative 4-hour virtual workshop. All of our workshops apply the fundamentals of CI, Lean, & Quality. We get everyone in your organization aligned to speak the same language while making continuous improvement fun and engaging.
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This training provides attendees with the necessary skills for planning/preparing, conducting, and reporting internal audits in a business environment. Internal audits are an ISO 9001:2015 / IATF 16949:2016 requirement and must be conducted by qualified personnel.
This course is an ideal starting point toward understanding what is needed to properly conduct internal audits.
Let’s Talk It Over!
Talk with one of our specialists to help you get the most out of your business.