As a product developer and manufacturer, it is fundamental that the design of a product guarantees its manufacturability with planned zero defect. This can be obtained with sound statistical tools in every stage of the design. A strong and robust design with systemic innovation based on six sigma techniques shall considerably reduce time-to market, increase competitive advantage, and enhance market leadership, which end results is increase strategic positionning.

Zero-based redesign is not about new product development. Zero-based redesign (ZBR) is about enhancing the activities that fuel your competitive advantage, and reduce or eliminate when possible many of the ones that don’t. Traditional efforts to streamline those activities most of the time will settle for low percentage reduction and incremental control leading to most cost ramping up back again. ZBR, in the contrary, is a one-time effort that defines the critical activities capable of delivering what your customers value most about you. ZBR is similar to the Lean Service waste elimination.

Most organizations have KPIs. However are they measuring real key processes and are providing key information for growth. There are two kinds of KPIs: lagging and leading KPIs. Lagging KPIs provide past perfomance, like sales volume or again revenue from new customers. Leading KPIs are analytical determinants that provide information on current status in order to change the trajectory path of results. Processes need both. Good KPIs need proximity to the issue trying to be solved, aligned with the larger business goals, high frequency of measurement (repetition), and capable of enhancing the right information (contrast).

There exist a great number of management systems out there. Are you certified in the correct one? Are you working hard to maintain the system, or is the system working for you to make you better and more profitable? AMS is the term we used to implement the Standards that are really adapted to the nature of the industry, the leadership culture in place, the organizational structure, and even the Mean Academic Preparation (MAP) of the organization, so that everyone can understand, deals, and manage effectively the system. AMS relies on MAP to make sure the Standards work for you and not you for them.