10 December 2015

To see the future of your business you need Vision in Print

There is no doubt that best practice techniques taught to staff on-site lead to sustainable, continuous improvements, and that these in turn produce extensive savings.

Such has been the recent take up by members, the BPIF has now given Vision in Print (ViP) a makeover and increased its support team with Matthew Peacock re-joining as an Associate Consultant to assist Senior ViP Process Engineer Garry Mellor with ongoing and future projects.

ViP is specifically focused on eight key areas:

Productivity Healthcheck
Platinum members receive a free healthcheck with a ViP engineer who will investigate, evaluate and measure nine key areas of manufacturing. This snapshot provides you with an instant report on where we see your business today, helping you to understand opportunities, key issues, problem areas and the potential solutions available.

Operations Diagnostic
On completion of the healthcheck, the next stage is likely to be an in-depth operational diagnostic. This qualitative operational audit using 'ViP Best Practice' provides a quantifiable assessment on your company's ability to develop a sustainable culture of continuous improvement. The results are then analysed and a rollout programme is agreed, covering some or all of the following:

Productivity Improvements
Designed to increase productive time, speed and quality, productivity improvements focus on intensive activities in critical areas of the business to identify and implement actions that measure, trial and standardise solutions.

Office and Pre-Press Administrative Streamlining
By process mapping and information analysis across all administrative workflows, you will reduce administrative lead times, thereby increasing staff productivity and sales capacity, and improving customer service and delivery.

Process Engineering
This service helps organisations analyse and develop innovative or improved manufacturing processes. Established techniques are used to evaluate equipment, efficiency, production quality and safety. Typical activities may include preparing diagrams, charts, tables and reports for understanding and troubleshooting intricate production systems in order to develop solutions to improve profitability, productivity or service performance.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness
OEE is a single KPI (Key Performance Indicator) that shows how effectively a piece of equipment is being used. OEE awareness and training programmes are bespoke to the specifics of the company and centre on training your staff to collect and understand OEE data, identifying opportunities for improvement.

Waste Reduction
Measuring, identifying and reducing waste material from all aspects of an organisation's value stream is one of the easiest ways of establishing savings whilst providing environmental and quality benefits.

Lean Implementation programmes
Wide-ranging Lean implementation programmes are tailored to help organisations maximise profits and competitiveness through training and engaging every employee to support continuous improvement. These include but are not limited to factory planning, Operation assessments, performance management and workplace organisation (5S/5C).

It is true that many companies have applied various Lean tools and techniques to improve isolated office and shop floor processes and have obtained substantial costs savings and customer service improvement as a result. But without a co-ordinated Lean transformation programme the results can be sub-optimised and the benefits of widespread employee engagement as part of the improvement culture are lost.

The BPIF will explore all available funding opportunities to support you in delivering these transformative programmes.

If you have the vision to take your business forward together as one team with one goal, contact Phil Pateman via the details below.