Formed in 1995 by Mike Thacker, we are a group of senior and practice manager level, international consultants, and professional trainers, who have researched, trialled and introduced leading edge thinking in best practice manufacturing, operations, IS/IT management, business process re-engineering, cellular manufacturing, programme management, strategic purchasing, and training in a vast range of both large and small client organisations, worldwide.
We have pioneered the introduction into the UK of MRP, ERP, BPR, World Class Manufacturing, Just in Time, Lean manufacturing, Continuous improvement, Kaizen, strategic purchasing, Advanced Planning & Scheduling, manufacturing control systems software, consultancy diagnostics expert systems, EDI, and recently Agile Manufacturing, and Lean and Agile Supply Chain Management.
Professional updating is a significant problem to many consultants which we have solved. Over this time we have been involved in collaboration with a number of UK Universities on several major research projects in manufacturing processes selection, best practice materials and capacity management, benchmarking, measures of performance, and ERP software selection and implementation, the result being the continuous incorporation of leading edge thinking into our consultancy and training. One of our recent research projects is illustrated in "Featured Malpractice", and there are several articles on the site resulting from other research.
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