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The Polish company, which has been active on the market since 2013 and is based in the southern part of the country, plans to expand by offering its services on the Spanish market. The firm is ready to share its knowledge and experience hoping for positive bilateral cooperation.

The offer contains activities in the following areas:

• Organizational analysis: includes definitions of the processes taking place in the area of production and logistics, together with an indication of the possible savings factors and the ways how to achieve them.
• Production workshops: physical process reorganization change, improvement in material and information flows leading to the time and place occupation savings, stock level reduction, lead time improvement. These activities include training for the execution staff.
• Production workplace designing: is used for the definition of ergonomic space usage in the slot with the optimization of materials/components flows and staff effort reduction. These actions are designed for new lines also widely used to adapt to existing ones.
• Lean manufacturing culture building: training for production workers giving detailed information about how to build and maintain Lean Manufacturing culture and Continuous Improvement philosophy (Kaizen)
• Lean Manufacturing trainings:
Lean Basic – basic training
Process optimisation - VSM (Value Stream Mapping) methodology
5S – Workplace and area organization
Lean flow – logistics optimisation
Planning and scheduling - production
Production workshops: Lean tools implementation
Project management and planning,
Project management and reporting

The company is looking for future cooperation with partners from Spain, mainly from the manufacturing and logistics sectors. The company would like to start cooperation on a subcontracting basis.

Advantages & innovations

The company is successful in the following areas: • Staff training on any level - from blue-collar to top managers • Company costs reduction • Business strategy developments ( based on Sales & Operational Plans - S&OP) • Work in progress reduction (WIP) up to 90% • Stock level decrease up to 40% reduction • Manufacturing time reduction up to 50% • Space occupation reduction up to 60% • Quality improvement

Stage of development

POLAND

Partner sought

The company is looking for a business partner playing the role of contacting point between the firm and Spanish manufacturing and logistics companies. The ideal partner should be ready to search for the customers within manufacturing companies and bringing Lean Management projects for execution. In potential cooperation are there may be associations, chambers of commerce, business groups as well as direct customers looking for Lean methodology or strategic management support. The company would like to start cooperation on the subcontracting basis.