Lean is far more than eliminating and reducing waste or continuously initiating improvement projects. Lean is about creating an organization and culture in which continual improvement has truly become second nature for everyone, everywhere and everyday. We help create such a Lean culture, rooted in a strong industrial engineering foundation. We can help with policy deployment, daily management, structured problem-solving and true kaizen.

Just-in-time means that the right parts needed in production reach production at the time they are needed and only in the amount they are needed. The purpose of the JIT is to maintain a well-attuned, timely correspondence to the market needs. We help organizations create a just-in-time system, based upon pull, one piece flow and leveling. In whatever production environment thinkable.

A Lean, just-in-time system cannot do without available, reliable and performing installations and equipment. Total Productive Maintenance therefore is an essential element of any Lean strategy in an asset-heavy industrial environment. Dumontis helps organizations in setting up and effectuating Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) or World Class Maintenance (WCM) initiatives.

When quality is off, much time and effort is wasted in correcting it at a later stage, let alone the damage that can be done when defects are passed on to customers. Dumontis supports organizations in preventing this by shifting their focus from product to process quality and the transformation towards an organization in which zero defect quality is produced by the process and autonomous, engaged operators.

Operators walking around looking for parts and tools, products and parts moving around in illogical and complex ways, unsafe working conditions? These are some of the challenges that may call for an evaluation of your current facility layout. Dumontis can support with such an assessment and reveal the true potential of your facility, and subsequently redesign and actually create the new layout leading to increased productivity and flow.

Massive value is hidden in the further integration of suppliers into the organization’s value stream, for instance by extending pull flow to suppliers or by assisting key suppliers in developing their own continual improvement capabilities. We can support this by helping setting up Supplier Development Teams (SDTs), supplier groups (jishuken) and assisting in Value Engineering (VE).