Manufacturing best practice review

Identifying opportunities and supporting practical solutions

Aiming for a new accreditation? Want to reduce waste and costs? Striving for quality and delivery gains? – We can support you with your continuous improvement initiatives.

Why wait for a problem?

We understand that unexpected issues happen. So, we are here to support when they do.

We also know that our clients understand the benefits of proactivity.

Manufacturing Best Practice Reviews help our clients to:

• Improve efficiency and profitability
• Reduce waste
• Improve performance and output
• Reduce product write-off
• Assure product quality and safety
• Prevent costly recalls / withdrawals
• Gain the culture and morale benefits of effective continuous improvement

We take a holistic approach to identifying opportunities, including the interconnecting considerations of food safety, quality, efficiency, waste reduction, and lean principles.

About our experts

Whether you already know your key challenges or need our support in determining the right focus areas for maximum benefit, our expert team can support. The wide range of experience across our expert team, means that the best fit will be found based on your operation and its needs.

What’s the process?

The process can be fully tailored to suit your business – we will find the right way for you to share your needs, aims and desires. Where these are not yet clear, we can conduct an independent ‘health check’ to help you determine the most beneficial focus areas for proactive improvement or further investigation.

We can also tailor the length of the on-site manufacturing study to best suit your needs. We will provide a scorecard / report, as well as including recommendations for addressing findings.

Not ‘just a list of actions’

A key part of our Manufacturing Best Practice Review offering is that our experts can be a part of the practical solutions to the improvement opportunities that they will identify. In a lean operation, we understand that identifying and implementing solutions can be a challenge – we can provide resource, guidance and practical support for both.

What’s more, our process encourages buy-in; alongside improvement opportunities, we always identify the positive elements of your general operation and key focus areas – this gives a positive foundation upon which to build improvements and gain benefits, and supports the continuous improvement mindset of those working most closely with the operations that you are aiming to improve.

Key services

Heat process validation

Many factors affect the amount of heat delivered, the product it contains, and the degree of mixing during the process.

Pilot plant facilities

Food and drink pilot plant facilities, covering over 3000m2.

Thermal processing

Thermal processing is at the centre of food preservation.

Food product development

Developing new food and drink products is a complex process, we can help across the full range of food types.

Food cooking or reheating instructions

Knowledge and expertise for microwave and conventionally heated products.

New technologies services and information

Exploring new and emerging process technologies for industry use.

Pilot plant (on-line)

Develop new products, analyze existing processes and try out ideas.

Pet food product development

All our services are available to support the pet food industry.