Osiris Innovations
Helping you launching your manufacturing business
Improve Your Manufacturing Operations
Helping you from Idea stage through taking your product to market
Manufacturing Consultancy
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Manufacturing Industries
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New Factory Set-Up
Project Management
Launching a new factory on time and
within budget requires careful planning and execution. Through facility
construction, equipment installation, or even workforce training, our
specialists can assist in developing and managing a feasible timeline across
multiple stakeholders.
Site Selection
with
countless industrial hubs for manufacturers to choose from. CMC’s experts are
familiar with the Chinese manufacturing landscape and can help you select the
perfect location based on your budget and operational needs
Building and Overall Layout
Considering
your facility’s material flow and internal logistics at this stage will help
your business maximize productivity in the long run. We consider every part of
your production process to determine the best equipment and layout for your
needs—aiming to reduce overall risk and save costs down the road
Process Development
Here, our consultants dive deeper into
the details of your operations. At this stage, we help you decide your
requirements for equipment reliability and automation; how to arrange
workstations for maximum efficiency; and how to ensure processes are tightly
linked for lower costs and shorter lead times.
Hiring & Training
A successful factory launch requires the
right people in the right places with the right skills. CMC can assist in
determining how many employees are needed; what qualifications they should
have; and how to hire, evaluate, and train them in time. This is also a great
time to develop a company culture and test your equipment with your employees.
Factory Launch
On the home stretch, it can be easy to
let your guard down but many things can go wrong at this stage: suppliers not
delivering on time, equipment not working as expected, and so on. With a launch
date quickly closing in, our experts can quickly troubleshoot issues and decide
the next best steps to make your factory launch as smooth as possible.
New Product Introduction steps
1- What type of new product
introduction process is appropriate?
The
more “new and untested” the new product design is, the more ambitious your
project, and consequently the more help you and your supplier will need. This
first step will influence the approach of all subsequent steps
2- Supplier selection
Can you use one of your existing suppliers, and how much will they need to adapt their processes? Or do you need to search for a new supplier, and in that case what criteria should you be looking at? Our consultants can help evaluate the risks related to potential suppliers.
In case you are working in a new company
starting to manufacture in China, we cannot over-emphasize the importance of
suppliers and sub-suppliers — they are probably the main cause of new product
introduction delays.
3- Line arrangement
Let’s say you have selected a main
supplier that will take care of some fabrication/machining as well as assembly
and testing. Have they set up their processes in a way that will make it easy
to reach your quantity and quality requirements? Maybe they have not dedicated
some lines to your new product — in that case, will this cause issues? We can
assess their line setup and provide suggestions for improvement.
4- Employee Training
If your product is different from what the factory usually manufactures in at least one significant way, the people who will work on your product need to get some training.
This
is an area most Chinese manufacturers tend to overlook, and it has serious
implications at the time of production launch. The reason is, factory
management doesn’t want to slow down their regular production schedule. But
there are easy ways to get workers trained, for example on a small NPI line on
the side.
5- Testing the processes
Making a few pre-production samples does
not uncover all the issues that you will face once mass production is launched.
One of the steps of the PPAP
(Production Part Approval Process — an approach very common
in the auto industry) is to force the line to “run at rate” for a certain
time. It is the only way to find many of the issues that might affect mass
production and to fix them without delaying the first shipment.
6- Going live
There are several ways to “go live”. Depending on the complexity of the product, production rate might have to be ramped up progressively and special measures might have to taken in order to ensure quality is good.
If steps 1 to 5 were done right, step 6
should take place at the expected timing and should not uncover serious issues.
It means that following the process we outlined above is the best way to get
your new product made and launched with favourable results.
Production Planning, Supply Chain Management, Warehouse Management, ERP Consulting
Production planning
A good planning system allows the factory to pull the components, materials, and people that are needed at the right pace to meet the demand from customers in the most cost-effective manner.
It means work in process and finished
goods do not get built too far in advance (causing many types of waste:
overproduction, extra inventory to move and store…) and your on-time delivery
is good. It also means your operators are held up to standards and have
objectives to meet, and they seldom stay idle because of a shortage of
materials from the upstream process.
Purchasing & Supply Chain
Management
This is often an extremely sensitive topic in Chinese organizations, but it is critical that purchasers support the production plan. Our consultants often see large batches purchased many months in advance, with the objective of getting a discount from the supplier. This practice ignores many of the hidden costs of excess inventory.
In some situations, the price of a key
commodity fluctuates widely (e.g. leather). We help purchasers take
decisions based on the total cost of ownership and based on past fluctuations,
rather than based on a unit price.
Warehouse management
Inventory control is a key activity in the fight against aged inventory that might turn into scrap. Simple metrics can help warehouse staff, purchasers, and planners keep inventory levels low.
We
can also help a factory by making its warehouse and internal logistics
operations more efficient. Investment needed is often low (a simple ERP system,
as well as a barcode system, can go a long way in reducing the amount of
manpower needed to handle components and register every movement).
ERP Consulting
An appropriate ERP for your operations will give you visibility into purchasing, warehouse, and production, among others. And it will reduce a lot of manual work in your office.
We can support, from the users’
perspective, the implementation of a complex ERP (e.g. SAP, Oracle) as well as
much more simple ERPs. Different types of ERPs are appropriate for different
businesses, so in our ERP consulting China service we can also recommend which
solution is best for you.
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