Private Sector Clients

Examples of Ross International intervention:

Aggreko UK - see case study

Having won the National Training Award in partnership with Ross International, Aggreko is actively involved in spreading the Kaizen experience to everyone in manufacturing and spreading the benefits around the corporation.

Compaq

Trained 3 Kaizen facilitators and brought savings in productivity, labour variance, ergonomics, housekeeping and employee satisfaction.

Diamond Power Specialty

Involved a small team in reducing the build time of an assembly while eliminating internal and external customer on-time delivery performance. Developed a model line, which can be pulled out to other areas.

Harper Collins

Reduced the amount of lifting and carrying operations required and made it easier for everyone to know what is supposed to go where so that items can be found rapidly.

Henry Technologies - see case study

Doubled the sales on a key product by slashing the lead-time and increasing productivity, which allowed a reduction in product selling price.

Hewlett Packard

Worked with a large team in advance of a process introduction to imagine the problems that might arise then take steps to eliminate them. The launch of a new process was an unqualified success.

Highland Spring

Reduced the changeover time between different bottle sizes by 75% and improved first hour performance by circa 30%. Ideas from the target line have been rolled out to other lines.

IBM - see case study

Over a 2 year period trained 6 facilitators and brought about savings of millions of pounds by standardising processes and eliminating waste.

NMB

Worked to improve outgoing quality and reduce product cost in order to avoid product being transferred abroad. Customer was so delighted with the new performance (after a visit to the site) that they gave lots more work to NMB.

Robert McBride

Improved line efficiency by focusing on halving changeover times and training operators in techniques to keep the line running, improving set up accuracy and making the line speed visible at all critical stages.

Rosti ( Scotland) - see case study

Stopped work being transferred to China by Kaizening their operation and giving a ‘cost down’ to a major customer. In the 3 months following the Kaizen the incoming quality levels improved ten fold as a direct result of the teams refusal to accept defects.

TFC Cable Assemblies

Improved the cost performance and predictability of a cable assembly operation by introducing one-piece flow and empowering the operators to see themselves as customers of others such as maintenance and engineering support.

Terasaki ( Europe) - see case study

Reduced leadtime (from receipt of customer order to dispatch) by 60% on a major product range while at the same time more than doubling the throughput capability in 30% less space. They also increased productivity by over 50% while improving appearance and safety of the working environment.