“The current market makes it hard to improve your competitive position!”

The construction sector is faced with a shrinking market. Because of this, installations are only being used partially or not at all, there are cuts in maintenance expenditure and no pressure to produce, so where is the need to reduce setup times? Not a very good position to start improving your competitiveness. But can we do it differently? How can we turn around this negative trend?

“A focus on what the customer really wants will turn things around!”

Johan Cruyff said it: “Every disadvantage has its advantage”. The quiet times in production offers the opportunity to work on really getting to know what the customer wants. Knowing this we can start with continuous improvement by starting with the implementation of improvement programs like Lean Manufacturing or Total Productive Manufacturing. It is only by involving the people in your company that add the value to your product, that you can make the necessary changes by:

Researching what determines the real added value for your customer;
Starting to make improvement potential visible;
Using improvement techniques in multidisciplinary teams;
Customer-oriented organisation of processes;
Standardising improved working methods;
Accelerating the growth of skilled employees by stimulating personal development.

TPM in construction

The objective of Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM) is to increase productivity by improving processes such as production, planning and maintenance, by making losses visible and by teaching the owners of the production process how to improve (in teams).

Customer cases

De Meeuw

Topical

KvK chairman van de Vall

Trade union movement

Business contacts

Construction Sector