Process
Capabilities | Areas of Expertise
Proprietary Transformation Process
Harbour-Felax Group's proprietary process helps guide manufacturers through the transformation needed to sustain success. It identifies gaps and delivers a comprehensive roadmap for improvement.
Operations Assessment
First, the Harbour-Felax Group provides a real-time assessment of OE/supplier operational differences based on lessons learned from the Automotive Competitive Challenges: Going Beyond Lean study and other benchmarking data. Our standardized operations assessment enables us to translate the results of an individual evaluation into the larger implications from the industry study and to determine a client's strengths and weaknesses.
| Evaluation Deliverables: |
| • Company Dash Board of Results |
| • Ranking of Categories and Subcategories of the Assessment Tool |
| • Assessment results for each question with comments, photos where appropriate |
| • Detailed Observations by Section |
| • Detailed Recommendations by SectCost Reduction Opportunities by Company |
| • Benchmark Comparisons to Similar Companies and Processes |
| • Summary and Conclusions |
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Road Map/Planning
Armed with this high-value data, the Harbour-Felax Group provides rapid turnaround to identify gaps and work closely with the customer team for seamless roadmap development. Our recommendations cover: manufacturing, product, development and process assessments; operational due diligence; competitive intelligence/market assessment; investment/capacity analysis and strategic planning.
Operational Improvements
The Harbour-Felax Group utilizes experienced consultants to assist clients in implementing sustainable transformation processes. Detailed recommendations on quality tools, lean techniques, and value stream provide a comprehensive implementation roadmap designed to close competitive gaps.
Strategic Advisory
As an organization engages in transformation, long-term strategic planning becomes essential to creating sustainability. Harbour-Felax Group utilizes information gathered in the assessment and road mapping phases, and combines it with an in-depth analysis of the company's organizational structure to assist in developing an integrated strategic plan that can be carried out by the company's employees.
By closely aligning strategic planning and operational improvements, a company remains flexible and can implement change quickly allowing them to achieve results faster.
