Manufacturing Consulting Firm - Rockford Consulting

Use state-of-the-art manufacturing stategies as your most powerful strategic weapons! Drive down the time it takes to develop and deliver new products, dramatically reduce inventory and manufacturing time. Slash the cost of quality, and win market share. This strategy provides you with the means to do it.

Substantial market share has been lost over years to foreign competitors. No industry is immune. The pressure is on to be the nothing less than the best. But being the best takes serious change and it's no easy matter.

You've got to streamline your factories, systems and organizations, and open up lines of communication. You've got to break down barriers between departments and put an end to the "we've always done it this way" argument. You've got to get your employees highly involved in assuming new responsibilities if you're going to compete in the global markets in the next decade.

Whether you are a discrete product or process manufacturer, make-to-order or repetitive, Rockford Consulting Group can help you increase your competitiveness by reducing throughput time, reducing lead times, reducing costs, increasing capacity, increasing flexibility, reducing inventory, and increasing quality, through selection and implementation of the right manufacturing strategy for your company. We are a boutique consulting firm that specializes in manufacturing, distribution and supply chain management. We serve companies wishing to become world-class performers. We get results!!!

See some of our manufacturing success stories:

World Class Manufacturing: Evaluating Capacity for Wheel Production in Mexico

Lean Manufacturing: Redesigning The Plant for 10 Second Takt Time

Lean Manufacturing: Reengineering the plant for Lean Production for an Electro-mechanical Manufacturer

Agile Manufacturing: Redesigning The Factory and Organization with Fast, Flexible Cells

Synchronous Manufacturing: Synchronizing the Supply Chain with Manufacturing Cells for Improved Scheduling Control and Inventory Reduction in the Automotive Industry

Rockford Consulting Group is located in Rockford, IL, a manufacturing-based city situated in northern Illinois. Our consultants were part of a company with its roots in machine tools and hard manufacturing. As a result our consultants have deep understanding and intimate knowledge of manufacturing at the shop-floor, process planning and work instruction levels.

Since then Rockford Consulting Group has applied its base manufacturing knowledge to a variety of primary and secondary industries including, but not limited to: aluminum, steel, machine tools, automotive, aerospace, consumer packaged goods, medical devices, food & beverage, process, chemical, oil & gas, utilities, rubber, plastics, textile, garment, electronics, off-road vehicles, and distribution.

We assist clients in developing and implementing manufacturing strategies with demonstrated, substantial results. Contact us (click here) for more information on how we can improve your operations.

These are the various services and applications we offer, as part of our Supply Chain Management consulting portfolio, for manufacturing efforts: