Manufacturing Business Issues

Is your manufacturing business troubled by:

1. Under utilization of production equipment and labor capacity?
2. Competitive pressure brought on by world markets requiring lower profit margins, and a more diverse product mix?
3. Production scheduling and forecasting weak, resulting in overtime, and late shipments?
4. Disorganized plant routing workflow which requires a rethinking of layout and process flow?
5. Equipment and machine downtime due to a lack of preventive maintenance?
6. Waste and scraped production inventory increasing?
7. Unable to effectively track serial # or lots?
8. Lack of quality built into products resulting in an excess of rework and waste?
9. Bill of materials dated resulting in inaccurate costing of finished goods?
10. Unable to keep up with the continuous material price changes and the effect on costing?
11. Customer orders not linked to production control resulting in lost or poorly scheduled production orders?
12. Vendor material costs that are out of line, delayed deliveries, or shortages?
13. Material purchases not scheduled resulting in rush charges and small orders?
14. Weak supervision on the plant or shop floor calling for management training?

Asyma Systems Ltd. can improve your business and profits through planning, prioritizing problems and control of:

1. Business plan and monthly budgets with comparison to actual.
2. Budgetary control of labor, materials, and overhead expenses.
3. Budgets by department so that managers can be held accountable for costs.
4. Quantitative comparisons by dollars, percentages and ratios to the industry.
5. Identification of production capacity by work station and best routing and process flow.
6. Production planning and scheduling by priorities for longer runs and fewer changeovers.
7. Implement weekly production meetings to review sales orders and production progress.
8. Implement a linked sales order, productions order and purchase order system.
9. Proper scheduling of preventive maintenance in conjunction with operator care.
10. Discussions with vendors to better manage and schedule delivery and inventory levels.
11. Review bill of material to ensure better estimating of products, pricing and job-cost tracking of actual results.
12. Tracking of customer relations to improved customer satisfaction with attention to order needs and status.
13. Customer service training of managers sales, and other employees.
14. New marketing strategy and sales force follow through.
15. Understanding what the customer wants and needs to provide quality products in a timely manner.
16. Tracking of human resource information.
17. Evaluation systems designed to reward productivity and high quality.

We will help you make your manufacturing business better!