Expertise

New Product Introduction

Supplier
Management

Operational
Excellence

Quality
Management

Our aim is to make a difference to businesses appropriately utilising our skill and expertise to improve the performance of a business.  We work closely with our clients to fully understand their business requirements and how we can work to ensure success.  

We pride ourselves in being able to take responsibility for a programme and deliver that programme to the client adding value to their business and leaving behind a legacy.

Resources

We value our long-term relationships with our consultants.  We will have worked with many of our consultants in the past before they represented MidCal and in most cases, we have known and worked with them for over 20 years.  This enables us to deploy the right skills and cultural fit to support the client’s specific requirements.

Our consultants are professionals who have had successful careers where they have gained knowledge and experience in manufacturing environments from settling up manufacturing and assembly operations to program managing an NPI project, training and deploying APQP across to delivering costs savings via a VSM project. We aim to have the provide the skills expertise and knowledge to support your business requirements.

We have a global capability having worked in many parts of the world from Europe to China and SE Asia as well as the Americas.

Most of the MidCal consultants have over 20 years of industrial experience in a broad range of areas.

  • Manufacturing Operations.
  • Quality Management.
  • Supplier Development.
  • Program Management.
  • Lean six sigma and value stream mapping
  • Multiple Technology Tooling Design, Feasibility and Manufacture.
  • Complex Assembly Equipment.
  • Procurement.
  • Logistics.

Industry Sectors

This experience has been gained in a wide variety of manufacturing industry sectors including.

  • FMCG
  • Consumer Goods
  • Automotive OEM and suppliers
  • Aerospace.
  • Renewable energy.
  • Pharmaceutical.
  • R&D Innovation.

We believe that our skills and experience can be applied across a variety of industries and sectors and we have been successful in achieving this.

Procurement and Category Management

  • Full Category management.
  • Cost reduction
  • Benchmarking
  • Strategy development and deployment
  • Organisation structure
  • Negotiation .
  • Risk management.
  • Change Control and Total Cost Management.

Complete Supply Chain Delivery

  • Performance Management of processes, equipment, tooling, organisation & systems.
  • Delivery of capable suppliers, installing control and consistency.
  • Delivery of product to the correct cost, quality within the required timescale.
  • Training and educating Suppliers.

Volume Launch & Serial production support

  • Management with deployment of world class processes and tools.
  • New product quality maturation and introduction.
  • Developing the supply chain to achieve and maintain Volume Ramp Up.
  • Reporting and tracking of supplier performance both in projects and through serial production.

Programme and Project Management

  • Management of new product introduction plan from feasibility through to production.
  • Defining gateways, key deliverables, roles and responsibilities across all functions.
  • Deployment of principles from PRINC2, SCRUM, APQP, and other industry standards.
  • Risk identification and management, escalation and mitigation.

Production Launce and Change Management

  • Supporting the product design activity with DFM / DFA,
  • Delivery of product to the correct cost, quality within the required tiTraining with specific tools within APQP, FMEA.
  • Bespoke process’s designed and implemented to suit clients business needs.
  • Experienced in delivering APQP training programmes across businesses.
    Use of AQP tool kit to establish NPI systems appropriate for business needs.
    Are you Ready PPAP and PSW

NPI / APQP deployment and training

  • Implementation and management of robust change control processes.
  • Supplier performance measurement, management and  improvement in quality, delivery and cost.
  • Developing the supplier base to achieve and maintain volume ramp up.
  • Cost control.
  • Experienced in design and implementation fo new product introduction processes.
    Design of gateway driven processes to satisfy business and customer requirements and be appropriate to the business needs.

Design For Manufacture and Assembly

  • Leadership in design for manufacture and design for assembly and process design.
  • Value stream mapping, process excellence, leadership, people and culture
  • Expertise in specific manufacturing and assembly methods.

Tooling & Equipment Optimisation

  • Fully Integrated tooling solutions for design and process maturation.
  • Design and implementation of automated assembly equipment.
  • Our consultants have delivered single component production lines to full green field  manufacturing facilities.

Manufacturing Process ContinuousImprovement

  • Strategy deployment, performance management, Organisation Excellence
  • Process Excellence, Leadership, people and culture
  • Continuous improvement methodologies, such as Lean / Six Sigma.

Deployment Of Quality Tools Across Industries

  • Deployment and training in advanced product quality planning (APQP).
  • Bespoke systems designed for clients from multiple industries in quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement.
  • Focused not only on product and service quality, but also on the means to achieve it.

Education and Training Quality Management

  • Break down barriers between departments, institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement
  • Training management with roles and responsibilities and execution.
  • Coaching and mentoring to deploy and maintain sustainable tools in the organisation.

Sustainable and Capable Quality +

  • The voice of the customer, improve constantly and forever in the system of production and service.
  • Design and process validation testing.
  • Customer returns analysis, containment, root cause principles, lessons learnt and embedded problem resolutions.