Assessment: Understanding the Situation

Our Consulting Team evaluates 5 areas to ensure success; team members, product flow, value creation, quality & transport waste, and information flow

Our Process Audit Service covers:

Selecting the Right Team Members

Identifing the leader responsible for making money with this product family as the Team Leader
Selecting team members from every company and every plant; different backgrounds are preferred

Mapping the Current Product Flow

Visiting each site, starting with the customer and working backwards
Recording both the total time and the actual time value is created

Identifying the Value Steps

Determining the actions that customers’ are willing to pay for as a value step
Selecting steps that could be left out and the customer would still be satisfied

Checking for Quality & Transport Issues

Identifying quality issues upstream that are multiplying downstream
Uncovering delivery issues upstream that are multiplying downstream

Mapping the Current Information Flow

Identifying where orders enter the systems at the customer point of contact
Recording both the total time and the actual time value is created
Analyzing the build variances and the effect downstream

Credentials

ETM Manufacturing has been fabricating metal parts and assemblies for over 40 years. We understand your challenges with launching new designs as well as ramping to production. With state-of-the-art CNC fabrication and machining centers, we provide small brackets to complete mechanical assemblies from 1 to 30,000 pcs. Our significant investment in lean manufacturing has helped continue to reduce costs and improve lead times for customers such as EMC, Symmetry Medical and Teradyne.

Vision

ETM Manufacturing’s vision is to be the precision sheet metal manufacturer of choice for US based OEMs. By locating manufacturing close to the point of use, we can significant reduce transportation and inventory costs. ETM will execute a compressed supply chain, using lean techniques in partnership with our customers and suppliers, to ensure that custom configured products are built to customers’ requirements, delivered on time and at continually competitive prices

People

ETM has a customer centric culture. It comes across in our testimonials again and again. We like to understand our customers’ challenges and optimize a solution for lowest cost and fastest delivery. Many organizations have the same equipment and systems, but it’s ETM’s “can do attitude” is the key differentiator for our customers. Either through quick turnarounds on prototypes, or lean thinking to reduce long term costs, ETM is dedicated to improving the performance of our customers.

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