About
My name is Brian Holman
I am an operations expert experienced in changing culture, processes, and operations so that the entire organization enjoys winning together.
We win by identifying and removing barriers to success and providing the tools and training for teams to achieve the next level of production efficiency.
I have had the privilege of working with diverse groups of amazing people to completely turn around multiple operations and we have taken others from good to great, by any measure. We accomplished these things by teaching and training frontline employees to identify improvement opportunities and garner the resources and support to implement them.
At Peak Yield we win and we teach our clients to win. Schedule a no obligation call and let us help you win.
What We Have Already Done
Reduced Lead Time
Improved On-Time, In-Full Delivery
Improved Capacity Utilization
Process Optimization
To reduce lead time we have to get more done in the same amount of time. In multiple food manufacturing organizations we found that the production preparation stages were a significant hinderance to production being able to be consistent and continuous.
In each case, we found a broken process and worked with the frontline employees to fix and simplify the process so that they could get their work done faster. As a result, production downtime was reduced by more than 20% and production efficiency increased.
On-time, in-full delivery creates happy customers. Happy customers sell their inventory and order more from the manufacturer. Each time manufacturers produce the same product they get better at it, which leads to greater efficiency.
We encountered a situation where the client was delivering product on-time, but not in-full. This led to their customers' product being out of stock sooner than anticipated and losing sales. Their order cadence got out of sync with their forecasted demand because they could not rely on their manufacturing partner to fill the demand. We focused on improving product quality so that waste was significantly reduced, this led to fulfillment surpassing 98% which resulted in more sales for the customer; more money for both parties; and better, stronger customer relationships. We made sure that first-pass quality was measured regularly and adjusted quickly when it drifted from the target.
This is one of the most important things that a manufacturer can do because as more capacity is utilized there is a corresponding increase in profit that falls directly to the bottom line giving companies much more cash than they are accustomed to having.
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In one case we increased capacity utilization by decreasing the speed of one of the machines. Production lines are generally unbalanced so finding the right way to balance them will increase the output of the entire production line.
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In another client, we found breakdowns were consistently caused by a single consumable culprit, so we calculated the expected life and began to replace the part ahead of it's expected failure which decreased downtime by more than 10% and increased the output of the line and the machine utilization.
We take what is working well and add to it. Or if there is excess capacity in production, we will work to improve the upstream components of production to take advantage of an efficient operation.
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After successfully optimizing production lines we typically find that the sales process needs some optimization to keep the plant busy. Generally the next step is to bring in more orders. We work with the stakeholders in this area to optimize support processes to gain more orders with the goal being to utilize more production capacity.
No new fixed costs are added at this time and the only variable costs are raw materials. As a result, at this stage all optimizations beyond this point fall mostly to the bottom line of the company.