High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturing
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The challenges are clear: Borders are shrinking. Customers are demanding more choices. Your product portfolio is burgeoning. In this dynamic business climate, innovative high-mix manufacturing strategies are key to manufacturing success. Your competitiveness—and your profitability—depend upon your organization’s ability to deploy leading-edge high-mix manufacturing strategies.

This makes it essential to find a consulting firm with a core competency in high-mix manufacturing—backed by the hands-on experience and technical resources you need to turn fundamental principles into action. Today there is one firm—and only one firm—that is uniquely positioned to meet all of these criteria: Manufacturing Decision Analysis, LLC. We wrote the book on high-mix manufacturing.

Working with Manufacturing Decision Analysis

At Manufacturing Decision Analysis, we’re ready to work with you as a partner. We’ll strive to form a strong alliance with your organization using a team approach to supplement your resources. Within that framework, we’ll work to marshal the collective expertise, experience and capabilities of your organization and ours, so we can achieve more together.

Our goal is to help your organization quickly develop your core competencies in high-mix manufacturing. We’ll begin with a complete system review and analysis of your goals. You’ll spend time with one of our principals to evaluate your current position and to map out a path that will take your company where it wants to go. We'll show you how to deploy the strategies that will vault you ahead of your high-mix competitors.

A Valuable Perspective on Manufacturing Operations

Manufacturing Decision Analysis offers a broad perspective on current manufacturing practices. We have extensive on-floor high-mix manufacturing experience with Fortune 500 and Inc. 100 high-growth startup companies. This experience is reinforced by the groundbreaking methods introduced in our book High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturing. Put it all together and you have an ideal partner to help you sort through the choices that confront every high-mix manufacturer—large and small.

A Strategic Roapmap to Quality Improvements

We’ll educate your organization in the core competencies required to implement an effective manufacturing quality system. We’ll provide you with a strategic roadmap for improving manufacturing process quality—an essential step toward improved product quality and increased reliability, as well as reduced redesigns, engineering change-orders, time-to-market and cost.

A High-Performance Test Strategy

We’ll guide your organization toward a low cost-of-test position that slashes test development time to provide improved time-to-market performance and increased profitability. We’ll provide your company with a roadmap to reduce costs and improve throughput for sub-assembly test and final assembly test constraint operations. You’ll learn how to model test operations, select the right test strategy and quantify the total cost of test. Now you can learn to model and predict the ultimate outcomes of cause-and-effect relationships in your high-mix manufacturing environment.

Let’s Get Started

All it takes is a phone call to get started. Contact us and we’ll demonstrate—at no cost or obligation—how we can help you identify and adopt the manufacturing strategies that bring competitive advantage in dynamic times. It’s easy to get the results you need—if you know how!