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MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING CONSULTING FIRM 

 A. Stout & Associates is a manufacturing engineering consulting firm that builds performance and profitability solutions using a client's existing assets and in collaboration with their teams. 

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Companies typically contact us when they are:

  • Frustrated because they are not performing as well as they could, or they should.

  • Struggling to meet customer demand for products and/or shipping product late.

  • Challenged by unsure next steps needed to grow the business or to merge business acquisitions. 

They attempt to resolve the problems by: 

  • Making changes to the current process, but the problem never went away and not sure why or how to fix it.

  • Cutting expenses.

A. Stout & Associates help businesses:

  • Find and fix the barrier limiting production output, to grow earnings.

    • Achieve the fastest payback with the greatest return on investment.

    • Define manufacturing goals, in dollars per hour. 

    • Train production to increase output by 2% each month.

  • Develop competitive manufacturing process plans to win new contracts.

  • Assess manufacturing opportunities before acquiring a new business. 

  • Provide business leadership insight on options prior to capital expenditures.

 

We accomplish these improvements by working in harmony with business’s cross functional teams to find and implement the solutions in a matter of weeks. Assessments may be included in the improvement process.

What do you want to accomplish? How can we help you?

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About - Values

We believe it’s our job to: 

 

  • Find the best solution with existing talent and assets and assume no additional client investment 

  • Prove the return on investment (ROI) of our involvement at the start and measure impact beyond implementation 

  • Create quantifiable improvement rather than deliver a report and leave 

  • Partner with a client’s employees to solve problems together, giving them true ownership in the solution and empowering their leadership long-term.

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A good mystery story. That’s what every new process investigation is like. What’s killing production rates, product quality, on-time deliveries, customer trust? The most successful manufacturers get that way – and stay that way – by continuously suspecting that it can be done better. 

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