"CONNECTING PEOPLE TO PERFORMANCE AND PROFITS"

OptimiZ Consulting helps companies

• Identify, Quantify and Capture Lost Opportunities and Sustain Improvement in production, maintenance and support function departments:
  • Improve Mobile/Fixed Plant Equipment Productivity while avoiding expansion capital.
  • Reduce Non-Value Added Costs (all departments).
  • Remove Organizational Barriers that hide opportunity and prevent improvement.  
• Avoid spending millions of dollars on an improvement initiative and looking for a new program to replace it the following year.
  • Understand the hidden barriers that hide opportunities and prevent success.
  • Learn and execute processes that remove barriers, increase benefits and chances for sustainability, and develop the culture you desire without looking for new programs.

OPPORTUNITY EQUATIONS:
       Equipment + Process + People = Production
       Equipment + Process + People = Opportunity
                                        People = Improvement (without Expansion Capital)

We maximize your opportunity to improve by combining conventional improvement tools with processes that help people see the world differently and change the way they work. This approach emphasizes the "people side of improvement", removes barriers and gives managers and employees permission to solve the hidden problems worth millions of dollars that are never solved and are only discussed behind closed doors. Sustainable improvement and culture change will remain out of reach without a focus on these issues. 

We strive for honest discussions about problems by making "fear in the workplace" and "process thinking" part of the scope of work. To help employees understand concepts, tools and end goals, we share real-life success stories and examples relevant to management teams, equipment operators, maintenance techs, engineers, and administrative groups (marketing, purchasing, accounting, etc.).

Our clients learn how to improve productivity, reduce cost, avoid capital and maximize profit by:

• Seeing problems as opportunities and understand the value of losses.
• Finding, valuing and prioritizing hidden improvement opportunities (production time and production rates, revenues and costs).
• Removing organizational barriers that prevent opportunities from being converted to additional profit margin and cause departments or management teams from working together effectively.
• Selecting measures connected to value creation and using measures to identify opportunity and track improvement.
• Changing the way they work to sustain improvements (what they measure, what they fix, how they communicate and how they work together).
• Aligning the management system so that it helps drive and sustain improvement and culture change.

We will work with you in a variety of ways to deliver a customized solution for your organization:

• General Management Consulting
• Enterprise-Wide Operations Improvement Systems – design, implementation, training, audit
• Improvement Make-Over – target a subset of the organization or improve the use of a specific tool or methodology without changing the entire system
• Process Improvement Team facilitation – departments, processes, cross-functional
• Management Coaching – Improvement Leadership - driving and sustaining change, aligning the Management System with Improvement Initiative learnings
• Workshops designed for your audience and topic of interest