Empowering the Center of Excellence
This manufacturer’s recently established Center of Excellence (COE) was struggling with poor schedule performance, cost overruns and quality issues. In response, CBS developed a balanced set of metrics to drive strategy and highlight gaps. CBS introduced team effectiveness training, team-based management techniques and a reorganized structure. The resulting improvements helped the COE underrun budgets and return over $15M to the business.
Timing is Everything: Meeting Demand for Critical Product Lines
A designer and manufacturer of high-tech military products, this company was unable to meet customer demands, resulting in customer dissatisfaction and the potential for contractual penalties. CBS helped the company develop capacity tools for critical product lines, eliminated non-value-added activities and implemented a takt-based system that doubled shop capacity and reduced product lead time from 50 days to 13 days.
Training the Workforce for Improved Performance
A manufacturer of wings and supporting aerostructures was experiencing high rates of employee attrition, which impacted delivery deadlines and revenue goals while compromising important customer relationships. An intensive CBS engagement helped the supplier implement a robust workforce training program, significantly reduce product defects and rapidly improve on-time delivery rates.
Discipline Counts: Raising the Bar for Lead Time, Cost Savings and Throughput
CBS Consulting worked with a private equity client to greatly improve their operational performance for a recently acquired company. The company was previously family-owned and a quality leader in their industrial equipment market. After our initial assessment, we targeted production costs, production lead time, and capacity/throughput. Additionally, the company lacked several basic business disciplines, like: […]
Jennifer Peoples, CPA, CGMA
01 Associations Member of the AICPA and NJCPA Trustee for Women Rising – a nonprofit supporting victims of domestic violence Trustee for the NJCPA Scholarship Fund Chairperson for the Volunteer Relations Committee for the NJCPA Member of the Nominating Committee and Student Programs Committee for the NJCPA 02 Expertise Union negotiations – from a financial […]
Keith Yeater
“One of the things I’m most proud of working as a consultant and helping my clients is those “aha moments”, those moments when someone who has been struggling to understand their challenges comes to the realization that we can help, accepts the help, embraces the changes and begins to see the results.” 01 Industry Experience […]
Bryan Ward
“Growing up I was a kid who loved airplanes. That love has carried me through the 23 years I’ve spent in the aerospace industry through to today as a consultant where I love to watch processes and people come together.” 01 Industry Experience Aerospace & Defense Power Generation & Utilities Oil and Gas Industrial Fabrication […]
Steve Dowzicky
“I found out early on while working in the industry that I could successfully lead any team to drive change, so it became natural to me to become a consultant. For the clients I’ve served, from the factory level to the leadership level, I’ve built and sustained trusted relationships while becoming part of their teams […]
Edward Hoffman
“Ethics, honesty, competency—these are the core principals of our consulting business. And what every client can expect from us.” 01 Industry Experience Aerospace and Defense Power Generation & Utilities Industrial Equipment Construction Medical Device Electronics Metal Fabrication Private Equity 02 Professional Experience Director of Operations and Central Services at Lockheed Martin Manager Mfg at GE […]
What a Great S&OP Process Looks Like…
