Minimize Costs
Reduce work in-progress, floor space, and travel distances
Cycle Time Management has helped businesses in many industries reduce costs by lowering work-in-progress up to 90%, floor space up to 50% and travel distances up to 75%. These savings are real and immediate. Our programs have impacted companies across Ontario, as presented in the case studies below.
Keeprite Case Study
Cycle Time Reduction Overview
Founded in 1948 with a commitment to build the very best air-conditioning products, Keeprite has consistently met the industry challenge of quality and reliability. It is the undisputed industry leader in Canada. The total yearly sales, both domestic and foreign, has grown from $1 million in 1948 to over $200 million today. The Keeprite is more than a record of dramatic productivity improvement. It is also the tale of an extraordinary culture change within the workplace. It describes how employees from all levels learned to work as a team. The Evolution Plan empowered the teams to reduce company cycle time from 22 days to 7 and slashed inventories from $18 million to $3 million within the first 2 years.
The Evolution Plan slashed inventories from $18 million to $3 million within the first 2 years
With CTM’s help, Keeprite realized that to become a world-class organization, they would have to abandon traditional batch processing and move toward linear-flow pull manufacturing. While they would have to initiate the change process and provide constant support themselves, they would need outside facilitation skills to guide the evolution. They also concluded that the fastest way to get the company through such a major “culture shock” was to involve all their people. Consequently, they chose a change process in which they, as well as all their employees, would have to participate and be trained.
they would need outside facilitation skills to guide the evolution, which CTM could provide
We outlined a cycle time reduction sequence that begins with the elimination of nonessential activities and impediments to linear flow in the manufacturing cycle. We showed that as non-essentials are eliminated, buffer inventories can be reduced dramatically. Once involved, they will realize that continuous cycle time reduction
Improves Profits Dramatically
Reduces the Working Capital Cycle
Simplifies Internal Controls
Improves Balance Sheet
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CTM was incorporated in 1986 and has delivered high quality services to numerous organizations in manufacturing, healthcare, and other industries. Read our clients' success stories.
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CTM has developed a comprehensive process (The Lean Framework) that allows an organization to create an environment and a means for change. Change that permeates the entire company and becomes a new paradigm for growth.
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Moving from reactive to proactive thinking in the work place. Having the employees understand the importance, scope and techniques involved allowed many clients to move forward at greatly accelerated rates.
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Clients have found CTM’s Lean Assessment approach of key employee interviews, financial review, facility visit and a lean manufacturing evaluation to determining lean implementation requirements has been very effective.
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CTM's Lean Framework sets out clear-cut objectives that can be achieved through an ongoing process of cycle time reduction and continuous improvement. This process has had tremendous results consistently.
Learn More"Terrific progress is still being made. Over 50% of our employees are actively involved in cycle time reduction teams..."
Don Kivell, Plant Manager
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"....the CTM overview and awareness program put everything into perspective. Until then we were doing a lot of changing..."
Jim Braun, CTM Coordinator
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"...in order to respond to our prestigious customer base, which includes Caterpillar, John Deere, and Gardner-Denver, we had to..."
Bill Morton, President
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"...we have set a target to reduce our new product introduction cycle time by one third, and the CTM..."
Philip Halt, Senior Director of Product Marketing
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