Your factory is already capable of more than it's producing.
I work alongside your team to find the capacity that's already in your operation and turn it into output. For steel fabricators and offsite manufacturers who have outgrown the way they were built to run.
The problem is rarely where the pain is
The missed delivery date. The cost overrun. The overtime that never quite goes away.
None of those are the problem. They're where you feel it.
A late delivery is rarely down to the last process in the chain. It usually traces back to a decision made further upstream.
You buy a new saw. Processing time at cutting drops, exactly as intended. But the workstation downstream can't take parts any faster, so WIP builds between them. WIP becomes something to move and manage. The gain at the saw has become a double handling operation that didn't exist before, and the run finishes later than it did before you spent the money.
Nobody made a bad decision. The saw did what it should. The process around it was sized for a slower operation, and faster kit doesn't resize it.
You don't need a new factory or a bigger team. The capacity is already in your operation. You need someone who has solved it on the floor.
Why me?
I spent twelve years helping build one manufacturer from four people to over seventy, and from £400k to £10m in revenue. I left as its Operations Director. I've stood on the floor when the plan met reality and had to make it work anyway.
Bring me in and you get dedicated focus from an operator who has had to tackle the same problems you're facing, and who stays on the floor until they're solved.
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The free factory walk
Every job starts the same way: I come and look.
I spend 90 minutes walking your operation, from order to dispatch. No presentation, no sales deck. I follow the production flow, ask questions, and listen to the people who know where it actually breaks down, because they usually do. You get a short written summary of what I found and what I'd do about it. That's yours to keep whether or not we go further.
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What happens after the walk
Off the back of the summary, the next step picks itself. Sometimes it's a fixed price to fix one specific problem and nothing more. Sometimes the picture's bigger than one problem and it's a full audit. Sometimes you already know what's wrong and just need someone on the floor to put it in, which is the guided implementation. And sometimes what you need isn't a project at all but an operations director a day or two a week.
Pricing is a conversation after the walk, once I've seen the operation and you've seen the summary. Not before.
Proof
At Boutique Modern I helped turn a four-person workshop into a steel-frame modular manufacturer building complete, fitted-out buildings under a factory roof. Steel came in, got cut, welded, fitted out and shipped as finished modules. Over twelve years we solved the same problem I now help other manufacturers solve: how to standardise the process without losing the flexibility that won the work in the first place.
25x Revenue
£400k to £10 million
2 a month to 1 a day
Takt time from 10 days to 1
4 to 70+
Team built from the ground up
10x defect reduction
Development of QA system
“George is honest, communicates well across disciplines, and has the rare skill of getting teams to own process change rather than resist it. His experience of scaling a business from the ground up means he's seen most of the problems before they arrive.”
Dick Shone - Managing Director, Boutique Modern Ltd
Tell me one problem.
One operational problem in your business that's been sitting unfixed because nobody's had the time to get to it. A couple of lines on what's going wrong and what it's costing you is plenty to start. If I can help, I'll book a factory walk, spend 90 minutes on your floor, and give you a written summary of how I'd approach it. Free, whether or not we work together after that.
What happens next?
→ Tell me about one problem
→ if I can help, I book a factory walk
→ I spend 90 minutes on your floor
→ you get a written summary of how I'd approach it.
Or email me directly: george@makeadvisory.co.uk