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Improvements through innovation

Gemba Quality Consulting

Lean, Six Sigma and quality systems for small and medium sized companies, on your floor, with your people.

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Process ImprovementLess waste, variation and cost.Learn more
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Strategy & DeploymentGoals and metrics linked at every level.Learn more
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TrainingSkills that keep the gains.Learn more

What is Gemba?

Gemba is Japanese for “the actual place”: where value for your customer is created. That is where we work, alongside your team, mapping the real flow of materials, people and information.

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Results from our work

Problems caused by colorShare of all claims and scrap, building products maker
BeforeAfter 2 years
0%25%50%75%100%Customer claimsCustomer claims, Before: 83%83%Customer claims, After 2 years: 21%21%Production scrapProduction scrap, Before: 64%64%Production scrap, After 2 years: 15%15%
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Customer claimsBefore83%
Customer claimsAfter 2 years21%
Production scrapBefore64%
Production scrapAfter 2 years15%
Hours of work per street cornerCity access-ramp project, 136 ramps010203040Original planOriginal plan: 36 h36 hMapped planMapped plan: 21 h21 hActual averageActual average: 19 h19 h
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Original plan36 h
Mapped plan21 h
Actual average19 h

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