When it comes to identifying and eliminating waste from your operations, cutting lead times and inventories and boosting productivity, capacity and cash flows, there is nothing like Lean. Lean can improve every process in your company from the manufacturing floor to the front office and put them on a path of continuous improvement. No one has helped more Wisconsin manufacturers successfully implement Lean than WMEP!

Experts estimate 80 percent of becoming a customer-focused business is culture-related. Without employee support, you can’t make many, if any, changes. Let WMEP help you change the culture in your organization and develop a customer-focused organization that sustains improvements.

Global competition, price pressures, maturing products, shrinking margins, and changing technology are common obstacles to growth. To adapt and grow, you need to find new opportunities that set you apart and make you a market leader. WMEP’s proven Growth Solutions & Strategic Business Development take you there.

For nearly a decade, WMEP has been helping optimize supply chains by assisting small-to-midsized manufacturers with performance improvements. Working with major OEMs, suppliers to OEM’s and their suppliers has helped us develop the nationally-recognized, innovative, results-focused supply chain solutions.

Manufacturers have been feeling the pressure of smaller, more frequent orders for more SKUs with shorter expected lead times, accompanied by increased raw materials and energy costs. They strive to meet higher customer expectations, and maintain dependable on-time delivery, without additional costs or resources. WMEP can help with proven HVLV tools and techniques that fit your specific needs.

Does everyone have a different way of doing things? Are you constantly hit with production and shipment delays? Are you solving problems only to have them occur again and again? Then you need to improve with WMEP’s Quality Systems.

Having problems with long lead times, poor cash flow, low profitability, increased customer complaints, excessive returns or low first pass yields? Do you spend more time firefighting than improving? Do you lack the hard data to support decision-making or gauge progress? For issues that spring from waste and variation, there’s no better solution than Lean Six Sigma.

See materials and presentations available from this year’s Manufacturing Matters! Conference that was held on April 23, 2008.

Attend and gain real-world knowledge you can use. WMEP’s Lean experts present courses around the state providing information and strategies on Lean. Click here for schedules. For prices and registration, please contact the appropriate technical college.

Just ask us. WMEP partners with other organizations and resources including universities, government, technical colleges, industry groups and commercial vendors. If we can’t help you, we’ll try to find someone who can. Click here for a list of some of our partners.

The world of manufacturing is changing. Is your business keeping pace? To survive and prosper, Wisconsin manufacturers must adapt. Leading manufacturers are already taking steps that will utterly transform their operations by 2010 – in short, becoming Next Generation Manufacturers. Let WMEP be your guide to secure your future in the global economy with Next Generation Manufacturing.