Performance Management

High Performance Management System (HPMS)
For Manufacturing

"With Childress Consulting's support of Amkor's Design Center, we were able to double our design output and create a work environment characterized by teamwork and cooperation. A significant undertaking, all done within a relatively short timeframe."

- Randy Holman, VP/Design Center, Amkor Technology, Chandler, AZ

Manufacturing worldwide has been in a state of transformation for many years. Increasing globalization and astonishing advances in technology are transforming our world and the manufacturing sector. Leading companies realize the need to regularly reinvent themselves in order to stay competitive.

With over 30 years of manufacturing engineering knowledge and experience, Childress Consulting supports client efforts to implement world-class manufacturing techniques.

Current best practices in manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma, have revolutionized the way many companies deliver products to customers and manage supplier relationships. In order to maximize the benefits associated with Lean and Six Sigma principles, it has become apparent that companies must fully adopt the Lean system throughout all areas of the company, not just on the shop floor.

Lean manufacturing is a management philosophy focusing on reduction of the seven wastes (Over-production, Waiting time, Transportation, Processing, Inventory, Motion and Scrap) in manufactured products or any type of business. By eliminating waste, quality is improved, production time is reduced and cost is reduced. Lean "tools" include constant process analysis, "pull" production and mistake-proofing. Lean, as a management philosophy, is also very focused on creating a better workplace through the Toyota principle of "respect for humanity."

Six Sigma is a management philosophy developed by Motorola that emphasizes setting extremely high objectives, collecting data, and analyzing results to a fine degree as a way to reduce defects in products and services. The Greek letter sigma is sometimes used to denote variation from a standard. The philosophy behind Six Sigma is that if you measure how many defects are in a process, you can figure out how to systematically eliminate them and get as close to perfection as possible. In order for a company to achieve Six Sigma, it cannot produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities, where an opportunity is defined as a chance for nonconformance.

Childress Consulting has developed a simplified approach to Lean and Six Sigma that uses the tools and techniques to the extent needed by each client.