JCL Operations Advisors, LLC is an independent Operations consulting company. We offer you the opportunity to leverage our extensive Operations expertise to improve the operations of your company.
JCL Operations Advisors, LLC is an independent Operations consulting company. We offer you the opportunity to leverage our extensive Operations expertise to improve the operations of your company.
There are many experts who will try to sell you on Lean, Six Sigma, Reliability and Asset care, Behavior Based Safety, and others despite having never seen your operations or heard from you about what you need. Although we have considerable experience and skills implementing Lean, Six Sigma, Reliable asset management, and other operational and safety improvement methodologies, we believe that the strategies and methods that will be successful for you depend on the current state of your business, your operations, the workforce, the management, and the culture. Our approach is to work with you to determine the path forward that best suits the specific characteristics of your situation.
The same tools and techniques apply to all business processes such as new product development, new product introduction, customer service, production planning, sales forecasting, inventory planning, and financial reporting as apply to manufacturing processes. Lean, Six Sigma and team problem solving techniques can help you improve your speed and effectiveness at executing business processes and we will work with you to develop the best approach for your business.
The skills and experience which we have developed required years of work in some large and mid-size organizations such as General Electric and Allied - Signal/Honeywell, Johns Manville, Great Lakes Chemical, and Compass Minerals. Skills and training in Lean, Six Sigma, Reliability, Total Quality, and organization and leadership were acquired and applied in this broad variety of companies and conditions. Home growing this capability takes decades. Additionally, as unemployment reaches record low levels it can be difficult to acquire and retain talented, experienced operations leaders. You can leverage our experience and expertise to accelerate the development of your people, especially those you need to place in “stretch” assignments.
We have used our risk assessment and mitigation approach to turn around the safety performance of a company that had been experiencing a serious, life changing injury to an employee every one to one and a half years over a period of 10 years. By life changing we mean the injured employee required months of rehabilitation, never returned to work or was fatally injured. Our approach is team based, likely will require minimal capital expense, and with the right follow-up and implementation is effective and sustainable. In the case of the above mentioned company they have gone over 6 years without a serious injury.
Because a Loon has evolved to be the near perfect fishing bird. Fast and agile under water. This is what they need to be able to do to survive and thrive. If you have seen a loon on land you have seen they are barely able to move a few feet from the water to the nest. The ideal creature for swimming and fishing is not ideal for walking on land. Similarly, continuous improvement of your operations should be focused on developing them to become the best in the world at safely and efficiently providing what your customers need. Nothing else.