Some ideas can be just common sense. But executing them can be uncommonly challenging. And sustaining them, incredibly difficult. That’s when manufacturers turn to Wipfli.
Wipfli offers industry-leading manufacturing experience, expertise, and results in improving productivity. Best of all, we offer hands-on help from people who are excited about manufacturing.
Since 1930, Wipfli has been helping companies just like yours improve performance. We’ve seen what works and what doesn’t. We understand which measures can accelerate performance and which factors can impede it. To our team of specialists, no problem is unfamiliar, and every company deserves every opportunity to excel.
It’s your performance…we’ll help you turn it around, move it in the right direction, and keep it on course.
It’s your productivity…and our comprehensive solutions will integrate it into your business, making it part of your culture and part of your success.
Hands on, not handed off.
Why learn from experts when you can work with them?
Wipfli specialists work alongside you in your environment. You’ll never go to a workshop and then have to figure out by yourself what to do with the information when you’re back in the workplace. We don’t depend on off-site seminars, and we don’t talk you through productivity…we walk with you, every step of the way.
We provide hands-on help along with practical methods that are applied to your real world circumstances, in real time.
That’s our difference. It’s the difference between truly mentoring and just teaching. Between committing to a genuine team approach and simply advising.
At Wipfli, we’re accountable for implementation, and we’re also accountable for results. Your journey is ours.
Proven in your industry. Tailored for your company.
Wiplfi brings you powerful, proprietary, and proven processes. Processes that let you objectively see where the opportunities are for improvements. And show you how to leverage your workforce talent, time, and resources for the long run. In short, we teach your organization—from shop floor to front office—how to be excellent.
Your Wipfli team examines the whole of your operations, then works with you to customize an approach using a system of modules tailored to fit your ambitions, your objectives, your resources, and the pace of your improvement journey. You choose the activities and processes to fit your organization’s state of readiness.
Through this unique, modular approach, even minor adjustments can generate major impact, letting you build on improvements as you go. You’ll achieve better process management and stronger organizational development by influencing the Three Essentials for Excellence.
- STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT. Are employees working on what matters to your performance? Are people busy, but somehow off strategy? You can make better use of your leadership team, your building assets, and your resources through Strategic Alignment.
An organization with an aligned focus has meaningful conversations about its direction while demonstrating improved decision-making. With a variety of techniques and tools, we’ll help your organization understand where its priorities are, identify necessary outcomes, and measure what matters.
- OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE. From cell excellence to value stream excellence. From every corner of the shop floor, to front and back office processes and supply chain. The best productivity principles the industry has to offer are put into practice.
Wipfli assists with education, priorities, implementation, and sustainability. We’ll help you drive out waste, flow the work, pull the work, and level the work. With increased throughput and additional capacity, you’ll do more with what you have, and get more of what you want—a better bottom line.
- ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. A highly skilled workforce is often the deciding factor in whether a company gains the competitive edge in the global marketplace. Wipfli provides education and works with your people to create business excellence, generating inspired contributions from your workforce. We provide unique learning experiences at the personal, interpersonal, managerial, and organizational levels.
Through dynamic training initiatives and with an understanding of the competencies needed for high performance, we cultivate new abilities in your employees, increasing their confidence levels, and empowering them to succeed. And ultimately, building you a more capable and engaged organization.
Bring your organizational excellence into focus. Call Wipfli today, or visit our Web site at www.wipfli.com.
Essential Tools
Whether you need to remedy your turnaround or rally the troops, we offer expertise on a variety of business tools that can make an immediate impact in your organization. We’ll help you implement any of them today. You’ll begin to see progress tomorrow.
- Lean benchmarking
- 5S
- Value stream mapping
- Facility and cellular design
- Quick set-up and changeovers
- Kanban and visual control systems
- Standardization of work
- Production smoothing
- Pokayoke – fool proofing
- Design for manufacturability
- TPM (total productive maintenance)
- Lean competency modeling
- ERP (enterprise resource planning)