Operational Excellence Coaching
Individualized Socratic coaching around specific OpEx capabilities, routines, and techniques that promote high discipline for key staff members.
Lean Consulting
Trusted consulting advice that draws from nearly 30 years of first-hand experience in engineering, quality management, construction, change management, instructing, IP management, operations, automation, and product development.
Collaborative Workshops
From Strategic Planning to Kaizen to 3P, we offer a wide array of facilitation support for your most critical creative workshops. We aim to develop your internal talent while overcoming key obstacles to your long-term success.
In-Person Training
We offer a diverse and extensive training catalog that includes numerous Lean and Six Sigma topics, Agile execution materials, professional certification preparatory content, and management development materials for all levels of the organization.
Independent Assessments
We leverage the AME Lean Sensei tool for enterprise maturity assessment. Site Lean Readiness Assessments are also available for new deployments and recent acquisitions.
Third-Party Auditing
If you need a fresh set of qualified eyes to review and audit operational standards of your current transformation initiative, we can assist with on-site evaluations and recommendations tailored to your specific OpEx goals.
Selected Workshops and Training Topics
Problem-Solving Techniques
A complete systematic training course on the use of several simple, yet effective approaches to bridge gaps and solve problems both quickly and permanently.
Lean Processing Overview
A foundational exploration of Lean principles and tools that align the entire organization around the WHY of Lean to create a common framework, lexicon, and objectives.
Daily Management
Essential tools and disciplines that monitor standardized performance to highlight abnormalities in real-time for rapid corrective action.
Eliminating Waste
A comprehensive review of the many natural impediments to flow that frustrate your customers and diminish your competitive advantages.
Standardized Work
An in-depth examination of how the stadnardization of work at all levels of the organization supports flow, enhances waste avoidance, and promotes critical creativity.
Flow & Value Streams
Critical training that explores value creation steps, identification of system interdependencies, and the understanding of key customer requirements.
5S Organization
Foundational practical understanding of visual management techniques that involve material placement which serve to maximize personal efficiencies and highlight abnormalities.
Visual Management
Exploring a new paradigm that transforms complex systems into easily understood and provocative environments.
Kata Routines
A powerful rapid-experimentation technique that compliments other operational excellence systems to accelerate creative breakthroughs.
Training Within Industry (TWI) Fundamentals
The world’s most proven technique for rapidly training personnel in skills-oriented tasks.
Systems Mapping
An exploration of dynamic systems thinking that culminates in defining the critical organizational systems needed to sustain “next level” performance.
Policy Deployment
Practical development of a Hoshin Planning framework that uses the Catchball process to create, refine, and align objectives in a visual tool.
Production Preparation Process (3P)
A systematic approach that utilizes concurrent design to develop and deploy new products with unparalleled capability.
Total Production Maintenance (TPM)
An examination of how prevention of unexpected lost time events reduces costs, shortens lead-times, and provides competitive advantage.
Agile Frameworks
The intense application of team-based, Lean principles for product and process development resulting in reduced cost, shortened lead-times, and heightened customer satisfaction.
Hugghins Performance Consulting can transform your approach to operational excellence. Their coaching engagements are insightful and tailored to your needs, leading to measurable improvements in both your processes and team engagement. We recommend their services for any organization looking to enhance their capabilities and achieve sustainable growth.
