The Hidden Factory: Where Profits Quietly Hidden Under Our Feet and Eyes
Overview
The Hidden Factory typifies the inefficiencies in production where rework, scrap, and engineering mistakes, human errors drive up expenses. If you walk in to your factory and take a good look around and you see some or all of these examples:
- material in all the places more than needed in most locations
- there are daily shortage discussions that seem like never ending
- people are frantically moving and screaming to move the product from one station to the other
- your customer orders are delivered late most of the time in spite of lot of material in various forms and stages in the factory
- your inventory turns are 3 or less
- operators waiting for materials
- machine idle or running 24/7 to keep them operating
- inventories piling up in few work stations
You know for sure you have a hidden factory. Companies should address and eliminate the hidden waste in their current operations to free up enormous space and improve cash flow. We will share few proven methods and explore how these can be done more effectively and in a very short period of time.
Host Company
LEAN N GROW CONSULTANTS Lean N Grow is a premier engineering service provider dedicated to delivering exceptional solutions to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide. Founded by experts, each with over 30 years of experience with in heavy engineering, Manufacturing Excellence, 6 Sigma, LEAN, we combine deep industry knowledge with innovative approaches to solve complex challenges. https://leanngrow.com/
Presenter
Venkataramani (Ramani) has over 40 years of leading operations transformations in several industries. He is a cretified 6 Sigma Black Belt and Master Black belt, Certified LEAN Coach. Has trained over 1500 Blackbelts, lead and facilitated more than 3000 project both in Manufacturing and in Business processes. He is the founder of LEAN N GROW Consultants a decade ago with operations in the US (Chicago) and India
Agenda
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Central time zone
11 a.m. Welcome
11:05 a.m. Introduction to the topic
11:10 a.m. Case study presentation and approaches
11:45 a.m. Questions
12 p.m. Conclude event
PARTICIPANT BENEFITS
- Simple methods to identify and improve hidden factories in their operations.
- Confidence to initiate actions towards it.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Operations leaders
Project Managers
COOs
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