Florida MEP: Enterprise Transformation | Continual Process Improvements

Global pressures and increasing customer demands require manufacturers to operate at ever higher levels of competency. To achieve world-class status, companies must focus on lowering costs by reducing waste, increasing throughput, improving lead times, and putting customer satisfaction at the top of their priority list. The Florida MEP provides the experience and the methodology that helps our clients achieve the right focus and become globally competitive.

The initial assessment process quantifies and qualifies value-added activity across your enterprise. We use tools such as Value Stream Mapping, Systematic Layout Planning, QMS Gap Analysis, and develop Performance Metrics to maximize operational throughput and improve bottom line results. We look at the front end of your business, identifying new business opportunities through our interactive Innovation Program, and we enhance your sales force’s effectiveness with a network of third party partners. In addition to addressing design and sales, the "front end" processes, we identify and solidify the business processes that are the foundation of your organization. With proven training and implementation methodologies, we incorporate Process Improvement and Cost Reduction methodologies, providing results that immediately impact your bottom line.

Enterprise-wide lean methodologies provide a customizable, measurable, and proven framework that transforms your company into a sustainable Lean Enterprise. Lean manufacturing is the foundation of a high-performance enterprise. Lean eliminates waste and provides manufacturers with the biggest opportunity for immediate bottom-line improvement.

ISO 9100:2000: a generic baseline of standard requirements that apply to manufacturing as well as service industries.
ISO/TS 16949:2002: interpretation of a Management System agreed upon by major automotive manufacturers.
ISO 13485:2003: medical and pharmaceutical industry's ISO.
TL 9000: telecommunication quality management and measurement system standard.
Combined ISO 9001 & 13485: allows your company to be in compliance with the FDA requirements and have the advantages of continuous improvement required by ISO 9001:2000.
ISO 14001:2004: environmental management system; minimizes how operations negatively affect the environment.
AS9100, AS9110 & AS9120: aerospace industry specific quality management systems.
OHSAS 18001: occupational health and safety management system.
ISO/IEC 17025:2005: testing and calibration laboratories. Originally known as ISO/IEC Guide 25.

The Florida MEP works with advanced Facility Layout Design Services that utilize the Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) approach developed by Dr. Richard Muther. This is a team-based systematic process that uses actual data to determine the most effective and efficient layout possible. SLP is recognized throughout the world as the most organized way to develop layout plans. The process is essential for those companies who must:

Add major new equipment or capacity
Rearrange for better material flow and throughput
Expand or consolidate facilities
Implement work cells and lean manufacturing
Implement new warehousing methods, processes, and systems
Rearrange teams or more effective office communications