About Us

Our consultants have years of experience making businesses more efficient and profitable. Our focus is practical and cost efficient. We are: Problem solvers. We know how to best approach problems to get to root cause, evaluate alternatives and identify the best solution to meet the customer's needs and objectives. We are miners of the hidden gold nuggets / fruits of opportunity for process … [Read More...]

How We Can Work For You

How we can WORK for you… W We specialize in process improvements such as Kaizen Events that typically do not require a large capital investment for a company to realize significant benefits in cost reduction, less work in process inventories, productivity improvement and reduced customer lead-time. O Our approach applies to any work process in manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, or support operations. R Review and observe … [Read More...]

Testimonials

Convinced that Trainer's more than 30 years of experience helping businesses and industrial companies find efficiencies could translate to the service area, Kilp went to the Town Administrator for approval of a contract from Trainor and his associates. Click here for pdf file Circle Y Saddles, Inc. currently operates a saddle manufacturing operation in Yoakum, Texas. The Texas facility … [Read More...]

Top Ten Ways We Can Help

1. Work Measurement Studies Perform Work Measurement Studies for productivity improvements, resource planning and product costing, manpower planning & capacity planning. 2. Facility Layout Develop a Facility Layout for new and existing manufacturing and distribution facilities that reduce travel and wasted work space and improve the flow of work. 3. Get Organized Workstations (shop and office) Warehouses: Raw materials, Packaging supplies, Finish … [Read More...]

Client Projects

Situation: 27 order pickers on 3 shifts riding through the Distribution Center on counter balanced lift trucks and picking approximately 50-55 orders per day. Over 430 skus located by product number and some randomly throughout the Distribution Center. Travel time was approximately 27% of the Order Pickers time. Customer Orders staged a day ahead, checked later& loaded onto trailers … [Read More...]

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Productivity Tips

Recently I was sitting in a restaurant watching the manager move from one task to another like a well oiled machine. He was the back up to several servers and kept them stocked with fresh coffee in the pots, completed food orders sitting in the ready position. This all … [Read More...]