Canadian Lean Manufacturing Specialists

Below are Canadian consultants known to Industry Canada that have been involved in Lean Manufacturing.

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Disclaimer: This list should not be considered complete and can be updated based on further information. Industry Canada does not endorse any of the people or companies listed; rather, this list is provided for information purposes only.

A

• Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (Whitby, Ontario)
  Offers diagnosis, development and delivery of productivity, quality, order response time, morale, and profit improvement solutions. Specialists in supervisory training, ERP/MRPII, LEAN MFG, 5S, work measurement, JIT, plant layout, TOC, process value mapping, SPC, job deskilling, organizational design, BPR, production and inventory control, ISO 9000, cycle time reduction, CMMS, business planning, ABC.
• Anubis Manufacturing Consultants (Oakville, Ontario)
  Provides professional services to companies with industrial manufacturing operations in North America and around the globe. Its scope of services includes master planning for manufacturing plants, process design, packing process logistics and material handling in addition to overall project management responsibilities.

B

• B2B Connex Inc. (Flamborough, Ontario)
  Provides clear, traceable, instantaneous 2-way Web-based collaboration of: purchase orders, change orders, VMI inventory status, Kanban replenishment orders, supplier acknowledgements, production forecasts, receipt status, payment status and more. "Manage by exception" worklists for staff and trading partners, accessed using an Internet browser, eliminate paperwork, printing, faxing, and voicemail while reducing the confusion and mistakes inherent in the manual communication processes that are replaced by B2B Connex.
• Bell Nordic Inc. (St-Laurent, Quebec)
  A consulting firm specializing in operational management and human resources. Its training helps to ensure efficient operational management (Kaizen approach, Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Just-in-Time) and creates a work environment facilitating employee empowerment and mobilization (team leadership, self directed work teams, effective communications, train the trainer, effective presentations, stress and time management programs).
• Beval Engineering (Regina, Saskatchewan)
  Provides group seminars or in-house workshops on Lean Manufacturing Tools and Techniques. Its two-day seminar introduces individuals to the philosophy behind Lean, the Principles of 5S, how to design a Manufacturing Cell, Kaizen events, Product Family Analysis Matrix, Kanban systems, Heijunka Box, Value Stream Mapping, Just-In-Time systems and Principles of Project Management. Ongoing support is provided to workshop attendees to keep theirs team focused and moving in the right direction.
• Bizwiz Consulting (Calgary, Alberta)
  Provides front end systems and software that define the key processes requiring improvement and pinpoint sources of waste.
• The Burke Group (St. Catharines, Ontario)
  Provides consulting services and training workshops in Lean Enterprise Techniques. They provide a very practical systematic approach to Lean implementation. An entire organization can benefit by implementing Lean Techniques. They start with the basics, these include Standardization, 5S+1, and Waste Elimination. Once the basics are in place, they move on to other initiatives which include, Kan Ban, Error Proofing, and TPM. This prepares the organization to properly implement Six Sigma, Maintenance Excellence, and Empowered Teams. This holistic approach will reap tremendous rewards for all organizations.

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C

• C.S. Consulting Associates Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)
  A Canadian-based consulting team of experts designed to offer a one-stop shopping in the fields of supply chain and resource management. It provides consulting, analysis, project management, education and recruiting services in the following areas: Lean Manufacturing and Just In Time, operational and systems analysis, ERP/MRPsystems, selection and implementation, supply chain and materials management, inventory reduction and cycle counting, APICS certification and customized in-house seminars, theory of constraint applications, and organizational environment, culture, processes and systems.
• Cimetech International Inc. (St-Laurent, Quebec)
  Provides innovative and individual solutions in the diagnosis and implementation of lean manufacturing processes, covering both administrative and manufacturing units, leading to a significant increase in organizational performance. Identifying and implementing practical, well-founded solutions in productivity improvement, in the reduction of up to 80 percent in inventory levels and in production lead times, thereby increasing cash flow and profitability. Lean manufacturing tools: (Kaizen-SMED-5S-VSM), Quick Response Manufacturing, Cimetech Optimizer (Optimal product mix for maximum profit, Operational Research).
• The Clemmer Group (Kitchener, Ontario)
  Strategic consulting services, supported by customized performance assessments, improvement and implementation planning, action-based learning workshops, and executive management coaching to accelerate organization transformation.
• Constraints Management Systems Inc. (CMS) (Cambridge, Ontario)
  A leading growth strategy consulting firm focusing on complex and high quality manufacturers. They help clients design and implement growth strategies to increase profit and market share, through:
  • Maximizing production capacity from existing resources
  • Converting business improvements into competitive advantage
  • Synchronizing supply chain replenishment
• Converge Consulting Group (Calgary, Alberta)
  Provides consulting support and training to organizations pursuing excellence in operations through Six Sigma, Lean Methods and supporting techniques including Design of Experiments, Quality Function Deployment and Statistical Process Control.
• Corporate Kinetics Inc. (Woodbridge, Ontario)
  Specializes in Lean Manufacturing and Enterprise excellence. It has a unique and highly effective methodology that not only looks at the lean tools that help to identify waste, drive out cost, and boost productivity but it has a benchmark methodology that integrates leadership and culture because they are the elements that determine if the lean tools will work and stick.
• The Createch Group (Montréal, Quebec)
  The Createch Group has understanding of supply chain optimization to become a leader in this thriving field. They have earned our reputation for excellence on the strength of their high-quality services, delivered by a team of over 100 experts in manufacturing (continual improvement, value-added product, lean manufacturing, Kaizen, etc.), logistics process optimization and re-engineering and in the implementation of information technology solutions.

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E

• EMA Inc. (Toronto, Ontario, and Winnipeg, Manitoba)
  A full-service consulting firm working with manufacturers to provide Performance Engineering consulting services, education, training, and technology solutions. It helps clients achieve sustainable benefits through Technology, Organization, and Best Practices implementations. EMA's Convergent Manufacturing methodology is a common-sense blend of Lean Manufacturing/JIT, Six Sigma/TQM, and the Theory of Constraints.
• e-Zsigma (Canada) Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)
  Supports global client through Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing continuous improvement strategies using a comprehensive curriculum and deployment planning methodology. E-Zsigma's programs, supported by web-based enterprise management technologies, have been used by industry leaders, including Arizona-based Six Sigma Academy.
• EDS Canada (Toronto, Ontario)
  Provides innovative solutions that help manufacturers remain agile and focus on their core business. Through the implementation of world class technologies and best practices, such as Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, JIT, Kaizen, Synchronous Manufacturing and Balanced Scorecards, EDS Canada helps its clients improve operations and become superior customer-focused lean enterprises. EDS Canada's core portfolio comprises information-technology and business process outsourcing services and information-technology transformation services. EDS Canada's two complementary, subsidiary businesses are A.T. Kearney, one of the world's leading high-value management consultancies, and UGS PLM Solutions, a leader in product data management, collaboration and product design software.

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• GP Canada Co. (Montréal, Quebec, and Toronto, Ontario)
  General Physics Corporation is a global solutions provider that has partnered with clients in more than 60 countries to provide innovative performance solutions, using lean implementation, Total Six Sigma^TM, Five S, maintenance and reliability, benchmarking, and product development.
• Grant Thornton LLP in Canada (offices across Canada)
  Provides manufacturing consulting services including Lean training, Kaizen Blitz facilitation, 5S, cycle time reduction, Value Stream Mapping facilitation, Structured Improvement Projects and Change Management assistance.

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• HPS Inc. (Kitcherner, Ontario)
  Provides consulting services and training workshops in Lean concepts. Canadian supplier of books by John Bicheno, author of "The Lean Toolbox".
• High Performance Manufacturing Consulting Inc. (Burlington, Ontario)
  Provides manufacturing consulting, Kaizen Blitz facilitation and Lean training.
• Hunter Business Group (HBG)Inc. (Markham, Ontario)
  Provides cross-functional ERP consulting and business improvement services. With a record of over twenty-five years of outstanding performance, HBG has helped numerous companies leverage their ERPinvestment through a progressive consulting approach in Business Process Improvement, ERPSolution Deployment, Lean Manufacturing and JIT, Constraint Management, Best Manufacturing Practice and Technical Support/Custom Programming. Through integrated, discipline-specific consulting and project delivery, HBG successfully provides services to an impressive array of medium to large scale manufacturers worldwide.

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• New IE-Consulting (Vancouver, B.C.)
  Specializes in Lean Management training and Lean production plant reorganization by using scientific methods to improve enterprise performance. The fee structure is performance-based: savings are paid back within one year of implementation. Their industrial engineering and management experience will generate outstanding results. Their industrial engineers provide interdisciplinary solutions to reduce costs, inventory, work in progress and lead times by creating the best possible combination of people, machines, materials, information and energy.
• Integrated Management Solutions (IMS) Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)
  A strategic manufacturing consulting firm that assists companies in improving productivity and profits. IMS is a very diverse global consulting group with over 25 years of manufacturing and engineering experience specializing in significantly reducing operating costs using process improvement techniques or outsourcing parts and/or labor. With offices in Canada and China, IMS deals directly with customers and suppliers to offer a common sense approach to business. IMS analyzes customer needs and provides a plan, recommendations and implementation strategies to improve productivity, reduce waste, increase profits and become more competitive.

K

• Kaizen Solutions Inc. (Courtice, Ontario)
  Provides systems-based continual improvement solutions to enhance operating performance through increased speed and predictability. It works with senior executives and operations management in manufacturing and service organizations who want to improve both their top and bottom line results. Kaizen Solutions Inc. offers consulting, training and implementation services for a wide range of performance improvement methodologies, including: Lean tools and methods (5S, Quick Changeovers, TPM, Poka Yoke (istake Proofing), JIT, Cellular Manufacturing, Hoshin Kanri, Kaizen Teian, etc.), Lean Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints (TOC), Synchronous Flow Manufacturing, and Balanced Scorecard.
• Kenneth Donald & Associates (Huntsville, Ontario)
  Provides management consulting services specializing in operations excellence with a focus on the key areas of lean production, supplier management, continuous improvement, business systems and information technology solutions
• The Knowledge Management Group Inc. (Missauga, Ontario)
  A leading provider of business solutions designed to improve your organization. They offer a number of business improvement services including, Six Sigma Implementation, Leadership and Cultural Assessment/Alignment, Advanced Statistical Consulting, and Six Sigma Process Improvement Seminars. Their strategy assures technological advancements are achieved that optimize business processes based on their organizational importance, their capability to exceed customer expectations, and their potential to achieve the desired financial savings.

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• Lean Advisors Inc. (Greely, Ontario)
  Lean manufacturing, service, office/administration, implementation, knowledge transfer, cultural transformation throughout North America and abroad. Lean transformation to organizations of all sizes and sectors including healthcare, office and admin, service, manufacturing, mining, aerospace, food processing, continuous process industries, high tech, medical technology, and government organizations.
• Lean Innovations (Mississauga, Ontario)
  Specializes in high quality toolboards and other "Point of Use" tool storage systems. Toolboard is a unique square hole steel construction that accommodates a wide variety of heavy-duty lock-on steel hooks, clips and accessories. Lean Innovations' products support 5S, Quick Changeovers/SMED, Cellular Manufacturing, TPM, Kanban, Kaizen, mistake-proofing and the visual workplace.
• Lean Manufacturing Solutions Inc. (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Canadian-based international consulting organization providing such lean "tools" as Materials Pull Systems, Plant Layout, 5S, Quick Changeover, Poke Yoke, etc., to the North American manufacturing sector.
• Lean Sensei International (Vancouver, British Columbia)
  Lean Sensei coaches deliver lean manufacturing and supply chain performance improvement services to a broadrange of manufacturing companies. Lean Sensei offers hands-on, result-oriented methodologies perfected through directwork experience in Japan. David Chao, president, was one of the first people to bring lean manufacturing techniques from Japan to Canada.
• Lean Velocity Inc. (Ontario)
  Serves their clients with a wide range of Lean Training Workshops offering rapid and measurable results to meet client-specific needs.  Whether in Lean Manufacturing, Lean Enterprise, Lean Office or Lean Logistics, Lean Velocity Inc. provides a wide variety of lean training programs to suit company needs, training everyone from shop floor to top executives.  Lean Velocity also provides Human Development training to company leaders.  Lean Velocity Inc. offers proven hands-on, result-oriented methodologies perfected through direct work experience with their clients.

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M

• Mantle & Overall Communications (Ottawa, Ontario)
  Mantle & Overall Communications is a twenty-five-year-old communication agency that makes you ask yourself, what do your customers think of you? How do you measure your customer success? When was the last time you measured your customer success? Their unique Customer Value Mapping Process, provides a customer-centric approach to these questions. Their passion is the elimination of "Muda" within the communication process. They do this by looking at all the specific actions required to produce specific communication products and the way in which they interact during the six essential steps of creating and sustaining a business relationship. The results are remarkable. On average customers save 30 percent on communication costs, 50 percent on wasted time and effort, 90 percent of the production lead time and a dramatic reduction in perceived indifference. Their vision and mission is Customer Success. Their mandate is to significantly improve their customers' ability to communicate effectively.
• Manufacturing Insights
  An IDC company, it provides business and information technology decision makers with fact-based research and analysis to inform and support critical business decisions. A global, independent research and advisory firm, Manufacturing Insights closely follows processes associated with the design, development, and distribution of goods across markets, including discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, high tech/electronics manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, and retail.
• Marc Chartrand Conseil (MCC) (several offices in Quebec)
  MCC's mission is to assist its customers to become a Value-Added Organization through the use of process mapping, Single Minute Exchange of Dies or set-up reduction, kanban and visual material management systems, 5S, Poke Yoke, manufacturing cells, ISO9000 standards, synchronous manufacturing, etc.

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• opStrat Solutions (Manotick, Ontario)
  Provides comprehensive and cross-functional consulting, training, implementation support, and interim management services in process and discrete manufacturing, service, office/administration, and education organizations. Improves service levels, customer satisfaction, operating margins, and inventory. Key areas of expertise include Lean training and implementation support; Quality Management Systems and continual improvement; six sigma quality and productivity studies; ERP Systems selection, implementation, and effective use; and project management. Provider of Six Sigma Quality Management software and Lean/Six Sigma web-based and workshop training.
• Organization Thoughtware International (OTI) Inc. (Guelph, Ontario)
  OTI uses its Thoughtware® Methodology to rapidly deploy LEAN in the targeted value stream. OTI has successfully applied Lean in front office and back office processing, customer relationship management, material and information conversion, supply chain management, demand generation, service fulfillment and distribution and new product/service introduction.

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• Peak Profit Corporation Inc. (Stouffville, Ontario)
  Peak Profit Corporation helps North American companies become more profitable by plugging profit leaks in Production, Manufacturing, Engineering, Purchasing, Quality, Management, and Administration. They specialize in using and maintaining the right tool to plug specific profit leaks. Their expertise lies in the application of Lean Manufacturing tools such as Kaizen, Kanban, 5S, Continuous improvement, Value Stream Mapping, Business Mapping, ISO, Total Quality Management, and Six Sigma, as well as in identifying best purchasing practices that may be applicable to the operation.
• PLANTEK Productivity Consulting Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia)
  Provides high impact consulting and training to assist organizations acquire the advanced capabilities they need in their pursuit of business excellence. Offerings include operational assessment, Lean transformation, strategy deployment, constraint analysis, quality engineering and coaching to implement the progressive concept of continuous improvement. Senior consultants assist a wide range of clients in areas related to Operational Efficiency, Industrial Engineering, Quality Management Systems, Project Management, Lean Enterprise, Six-sigma Improvement Methodology, Facility Planning and Design, and Workflow Optimization.
• Promaintech Novaxa Inc (offices in Quebec and British Columbia)
  Offers training and consulting assistance in Lean concepts.
• pVelocity (Toronto, Ontario)
  Provides Theory of Constraints-based Manufacturing Intelligence Dashboard suite of products tocompliment Lean Manufacturing. The suite includes a KPIManager, Profit Manager, Business Intelligence Manager, and Scorecard Manager. The Profitability Dashboard uses time based financial metrics to maximize company profitability.

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• Quality Solutions Inc. (London, Ontario)
  A results-oriented training and consulting company, offering solutions in Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, ISO9000, ISO14000, TS 16949, Team Building and Problem Solving, Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Toyota Production Systems.
• Quexx International Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C.)
  Since 1991, provides comprehensive training, professional advice and hands-on assistance in the design and implementation of leading-edge Quality Management Systems based on ISO 9001 (i.e. ISO 13485, ISO16949, TL9000, GMP/cGMP, TL9000, etc.) combined with the selected Lean management techniques. Their consultants were employed and trained by Toyota Motor Corporation. They introduced proven techniques of Toyota Production System and other carefully chosen Japanese management techniques in both start-ups and the blue-chip organizations. Quexx solutions include integration with ERP/MRP systems and "at call" professional Quality Management resources. Their program includes comprehensive research, extensive coaching and training, and the "value-driven" selection of the most efficient and effective Lean management techniques customized to suit specific needs of their clients.

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• RWD Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, and Toronto, Ontario)
  Has over 100 lean specialists trained in the Toyota Production System. In North America, experts come from the Toyota transplants including Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (Cambridge, Ontario), Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (Georgetown, Kentucky) and NUMMI the joint Toyota/GM venture located in California. Works with Fortune 500 clients in their Lean Transformation initiatives and covers all aspects of Lean including Standardized Work, J.I.T., Kaizen, Jidoka, Gemba and more.
• Rice Consulting Associates Inc. (Sechelt, British Columbia)
  Provides operational and organizational diagnostic assessments of current performance, business strengths and identification of real improvement opportunities. Delivers hands-on training in 5S's Principles/Practices, Lean Manufacturing Practices, Set-Up Reduction, Shop-Floor Leadership, Effective Communicating, ERPSystems Selection/Implementation and Cellular manufacturing. Their focus is to balance between achieving the necessary understanding and ownership by shop floor/support personnel with management's overall drive for bottom line results.

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• Six Sigma Canada Inc. (Tecumseh, Ontario)
  An international provider of Six Sigma implementation, including Champion, Master Black Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt and Yellow Belt training, Lean Enterprise, Process Management, and Process Modeling.
• Synchronix Technologies, Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia)
  Synchronix provides consulting services in Theory of Constraints.

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• Value Stream Solutions Inc. (Orillia and Owen Sound, Ontario)
  An international Lean manufacturing and a team-building, training and development consultancy.

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• Western Management Consultants (offices across Canada)
  Emphasizing knowledge transfer, provides manufacturers with a customized approach to Lean. When a more holistic approach is required, it can incorporate Lean strategy, Lean systems, Lean organizational design, Lean end-to-end processes, and change management.