Manufacturing Operations

Poor yields depressing margins? Got a sticky supply chain problem? The Maverick Institute offers a full range of industrial engineering tools and methods to help you boost productivity, eliminate errors and rework, reduce costs and get real ROI out of initiatives such as Six Sigma and LEAN.

Who Needs Maverick Manufacturing Operations Services?

Call us if you’re:

• Opening new facilities.
• Fielding returns due to quality problems.
• Experiencing process yields that are “stuck.”
• Unsure if you have the right suppliers.
• Having vendor problems that cause quality and on-time-delivery problems.
• Developing or want to improve an existing supply chain.
• Implementing or fine tuning Six Sigma and/or LEAN.
• Having high inventory carrying costs.
• Experiencing gross margin performance that is stagnant or declining.
• Having poor on-time delivery, despite high overtime costs
• Being rated poorly on key customer audits.

Why You Need Us

Our services can help you:

• Increase gross margins.
• Improve quality and on-time delivery.
• Reduce excessive overtime and expediting.
• Reduce field returns and increase customer satisfaction.
• Solve chronic problems.
• Get process improvement initiatives “unstuck.”
• Select the right vendors for your needs.

How We Work With You

At the Maverick Institute we have solid industrial engineering expertise and years of operations management experience. Some of the services we provide are:

• Rapid Operations Assessment
• Production cost estimating
• Capacity planning
• Facility layout and flow
• Staffing and training plans
• Simulation and modeling
• Process cost reduction
• Cycle time reduction
• Process systems design (Demand Flow Technology, KanBan and LEAN
• Quality (SPC, DOE, FMEA, Poka Yoke, Six Sigma, Kaizen)
• Supply chain planning and evaluation