Operational excellence in process plants, from first design through to commissioning.
Plant projects are complex but follow recognisable patterns. Three levers produced the largest effect in our mandates. Lean principles such as standardisation and problem solving at source sit inside all three; they are not a separate building block.
Standardised modules replace bespoke project design wherever that makes sense. Engineering effort drops, quality rises, and supplier economies of scale become available at all. Modularisation creates the repetition without which takt and flow cannot take hold.
Flow aligns design, procurement, manufacturing and execution to the value stream instead of optimising each phase for itself. Takt gives the whole a rhythm. Together they remove waiting time between trades, cut inventory, and surface deviations before they turn critical.
Here we do not just advise, we take it on. We fill the planning and control role inside the project and run it on lean principles: short-cycle planning by the people who execute, daily control instead of a monthly report, problems solved where they arise. At the end the role passes to your line organisation, together with the system we established.
Orders of magnitude from our plant-engineering mandates, with modularisation, flow and takt as the core levers.
Gain across design, procurement, manufacturing and execution.
Accelerated lead time across the full value chain.
As a certified VDI training partner we qualify client, designer and user teams as Lean Construction experts to VDI 2553.
Three articles on takt, modularisation and supply chains in plant engineering.
How lean management produces efficiency gains and cost savings in process plants. Inside: modularisation, flow and takt across engineering, procurement, manufacturing and construction.
Jörn Steinbeck transferred the assembly line to the project industry. The inventor of the project-management method takt planning / takt control (TPS) is Jörn Steinbeck.
An automotive supplier was struggling with supply chain disruptions and cost pressure. See how productivity was lifted and supply capability secured.
We report to the executive level and do the work with your teams in the line.