Best Practice

Miller UK Ltd, Cramlington, Northumberland

General manufacturing
190 employees

The company first contacted NEPA in order to find out how they could reduce waste within their operations to improve levels of productivity. Employing tools and techniques of continuous improvement, NEPA trained two of their employees as ex-production change agents to highlight waste operations and review their processes.

They have also worked with the NEPA MAS team on two occasions, for the development of an optimal assembly method for a cast coupler and for assistance for improved process layout. The progress so far has made a real difference to the business and we intend to keep looking to improve based on the training NEPA have provided.

Henry Williams Limited, Darlington, County Durham

Fabrication Production Engineering
100 employees

To keep pace with changing industry needs, the company wanted to embrace the latest productivity techniques in an effort to win new orders. They contacted NEPA to help them employ these new techniques - used so successfully by the Japanese car industry - into their productions process.

Before working with NEPA they found they were only getting 50% of their products out of the plant on time because of poor organisation. After the month long intervention, the practical and simple processes NEPA helped them to incorporate have led to 100% on time deliveries for all orders - and they have won two valuable and substantial new orders as a result.