Optimizing Your Operations
In the manufacturing world, every day presents a new set of challenges — but you have to overcome them with the same resources. It's difficult to solve these challenges while applying limited resources in a way that aligns with your company objectives, supports your people and improves your bottom line. If you don't know the full implications of your operational decisions, you may end up running your plant inefficiently without even realizing it.
MAVERICK Technologies’ operational consulting expertise extends insight across your enterprise. We work with you and your team to identify pain points and opportunities for improvement that are specific to your operation — and we have the resources needed to develop an operational strategy, then actually follow through. That’s MAVERICK's OpCon AdvantageSM: our holistic approach incorporates people, process and technology to help you achieve and sustain operational excellence and continuous improvement.
MAVERICK draws upon our vast experience working in many industries in order to help you:
- Demonstrate continuous improvement across your enterprise — Empower your entire organization to achieve goals, ensure safety and improve quality with our operational strategy services.
- Optimize your existing assets — Improve visibility and system reliability through a range of productivity improvements, operational support and system upgrades.
- Reduce energy costs and improve environmental responsibility — Leverage energy audits and regulatory expertise to reduce your energy consumption with MAVERICK's energy optimization and power integration services.
- Deploy the right technology for your business — Depend on MAVERICK to develop technology strategy and roadmaps, and then select and implement the solutions to deliver on your plan.
- Successfully transform your business operations — Partner with MAVERICK’s operational consulting team to perform pilot projects and conference room pilots, allowing you to test and verify the success of every plant- floor and business-level initiative before you begin.
- Define and meet clear expectations — Gather project definition details and requirements to form clear expectations and checklists as work progresses toward completion.
- Reduce costs — Work with MAVERICK to analyze your operations, enable energy reduction, and re-engineer your work and business processes so your projects move in the most efficient way possible.
- Enhance the performance of your supply chain — Utilize processes and tools that minimize the cost of supply and logistics while maximizing your profitability for delivering finished products.
- Optimize ROI — Determine the proper way to allocate your budget to get the most bang for your buck and ensure targets are met.
- Expand your business with confidence — Perform due diligence for mergers and acquisitions so you can make the best decisions for your business.
- Sustain your success — Look to MAVERICK for system analysis, preventive maintenance and a complete range of ongoing support to ensure your continued success.
Put the OpCon Advantage to work for you as you optimize your operations for improved performance.
MAVERICK's Complete Operational Consulting Services
Operational Strategy
Strategy | Supply / Demand Chain | Business Intelligence | CapEx / OpEx Planning | Technology Roadmaps
Productivity Improvements
Maximizing Asset Performance | Production Visibility | Reliability | Vision Systems | Lean Manufacturing | Digital Dashboards | Key Performance Indicator Identification and Analysis
Energy Optimization
Infrastructure Optimization | Energy Audits | Demand / Load Analysis | Reducing Use | Metering | Utilities (Air, Ammonia, Steam, Water, WasteWater, Electricity) Analysis and Optimization
Safety, Security & Reliability
Arc Flash Prevention | Breaker Optimization | Environmental Regulations | EH&S Reviews | CyberSecurity | Training
Organization Transformation
Program Strategy & Planning | Training | Culture Transformation
Continuous Improvement
Sustaining Improvements | Lean | Training | Digital Dashboards
Leveraging MAVERICK's Operational Consulting Services for a Range of Projects
MAVERICK delivers consulting expertise to help you overcome a variety of challenges. You'll benefit from our services if you ever ask yourself questions like these:
- What is the real cost of my operations? My energy? My business? My products? Can I improve my position? How do I improve my position?
- Some of our customers seem to always be pushing or calling with problems. Should we be supplying to them? Are they even a profitable endeavor?
- I have more to do than ever before, but a smaller budget to do it with. Where do I spend my budget to get the most benefit for my people and the company?
- My customers are demanding ever-increasing flexibility on the fixed assets of my plant. How do I increase throughput without procurement of additional equipment?
- My orders are up and the economy is improving. Am I ready for new orders? Is my plant ready to get back to capacity? What should I be doing right now to prepare for the recovery?
- My orders are stable / down. What should I be doing right now to prepare for the recovery?
- We are seeing increased pressure to be green. What is all of this talk about green manufacturing? Can it be a differentiator? Am I green? What does it mean to be green? Where are my waste streams? Can I improve my efficiencies?
- The only constant thing around here anymore is change. How do I make sure the improvement I make today is still working tomorrow? Am I still seeing the savings that the project, equipment and / or vendor promised?
- Now that things are turning around, I am forced to run this place with the same reduced staff. What tools can I implement to support my people? How can I make them more productive with the tools they already have?
Operational consulting case studies include:
Major Automotive Manufacturer Improves Energy Management
MAVERICK helped this manufacturer implement a facility monitoring system (FMS) to gain control of its major plant systems. Learn more >
Beer, Wine and Spirits Producer Improves Batch Manufacturing Process
MAVERICK helped this manufacturer improve asset utilization in order to increase capacity within batching operations. Learn more >
Soy Protein Producer Maintains Competitive Edge by Improving Business Processes and Enterprise-Wide Data Availability
MAVERICK helped this global manufacturer's business processes become more agile in order to provide the right information to the right people at the right time. Learn more >
Refinery Integrates Production Data with Wireless, Solar Power Tank Level Gauging System
MAVERICK delivered a new system to allow for quick, accurate tank level gauging while minimizing expensive, complex wiring logistics. Learn more >
New Equipment Integration on Tight Timeframe for Cereal Manufacturer
MAVERICK exceeded this client's expectations, integrating a new reverse osmosis unit into the plant's existing process boiler feed water system. Project speed was critical to avoid a significant loss of revenue. Learn more >
Major Newspaper Adds Manpower Planning / Tracking and Machine Downtime Tracking Capabilities
MAVERICK collaborated with this newspaper to develop a means of measuring and tracking performance of both its production equipment and production staff. Learn more >
Manufacturers Utilize Auditing Techniques to Improve Beverage Packaging Efficiency
Working closely with this manufacturer's in-house team, MAVERICK helped improve this plant's efficiency by 15 to 20 percent. Learn more >
Major Chemical Manufacturer Audits Utility System
MAVERICK helped this client conduct a utility system survey to identify issues with the steam and condensate systems and to provide a mitigation plan for improvements. Learn more >
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