GRASS Consulting Preparing for sustainable success Make a quantum leap in your competitiveness Develop your competitiveness with streamlined processes, optimum machine utilization, minimum wastage and well trained staff focusing on the excellence of your products. Take advantage of tools that show your current status, reveal your development potentials and at the same time control your processes and serve as an early warning system to avoid costly incidents that affect the entire value chain. Realize your productivity potentials together with our Lean Management team and anchor an improvement culture in your organization. Your Business Is Our Expertise With our experience background of more than 30 years on the market serving roll manufacturers and converters we connect the Lean Management discipline preferably with our Manufacturing Execution System software solution (COAGO MES) but also with any other MES solution. We support manufacturing companies to produce best-in-class products such as foils, paper, rolls, sheets, plates and formats aiming at reaching additional productivity gains. Your Goals Are Our Obligation As an experienced business consulting provider GRASS devotes itself on a daily basis to understand your situation in full detail and to support you on your lean path. We listen, analyse your situation and develop solutions to cooperatively reach your goals and prepare your organization for the future. Increasing added value through cooperative goal management and a tightly integrated continuous improvement process You Want To Meet New Market Challenges GRASS customers are faced with the challenge of making decisions according to the requirements of new economic conditions on the world market. Business structures that have grown over the years have to be questioned and rethought to react appropriately and in a flexible and cost-efficient way. Lean structures in terms of Lean Management support you to significantly improve the performance of your organization. 1
Our Lean Management Approach Applying lean strategies in your organization is a service that requires complete persuasion and experience. We understand lean as a form of art, achieving demanding objectives with simple methods and standardized tools to significantly increase the added value of your business. The Cooperative Approach Experience has shown that a cooperative approach leads to increased employee enthusiasm and to remarkable self-motivation. Create therefore a continuously self-learning organization supported by the implementation and application of a continual improvement process. You Want To Implement Lean Management The primary concept is to establish a self-motivating and learning organization. Therefore it is essential to define a vision beforehand to plan the future state of your organization and its capabilities. Our approach to Lean Management ensures the integration of lean transformation into daily managerial tasks and routines. Your Next Steps To Lean Management The next step is to perform an analysis of the current state of your organization to reveal productivity potentials. The definition and elaboration of your future states is a common result of all employees evolved in the Lean Management process of your company taking into account all your strategic business objectives and aligning all your employees towards your visions and goals. LEAN 360 Comprehensive Service With LEAN 360 we provide comprehensive and professional advice in the realization of projects in Lean Manufacturing Lean Administration Shop Floor Management Qualification With our knowledge and experience in the roll and converting industry we are aware of industry-specific problems and approaches. Our expertise and knowhow enables us to identify related effects and realize value added solutions. Methods Skills Industry know-how 2
Our Service Portfolio (Excerpt) Depending on the task, we select the appropriate services and adapt them to your needs. The individual components have repeatedly been tested and successfully applied in several lean projects. Potential Analysis The potential check gives you a quick process overview and detects areas of improvement with its corresponding value potential. It constitutes the basis for a value stream analysis. Detect weaknesses and areas of improvement Identify wastage Identify cost drivers Reveal potentials 5 S Method Using the 5 S workplace design, your organization is systematically improved. The basis for further optimization projects is created. Reduce non value added activities (waiting, searching) by 70%-80% Increase efficiency and safety Introduce a culture of change Establish a basis for further lean projects Setup Time Reduction Setup times that have not yet been part of a SMED project (Single Minute Exchange of Die) are reduced which contributes to an increase in productive time. Setup times can be reduced by 50%-60% Stable setup times, low variation Process stability Increased machine utilization 3
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) OEE breaks the performance of a manufacturing unit into three separate but measurable components: Availability, Performance and Quality. Each component points to an aspect of the process that can be targeted for improvement. Increases machine utilization by 10%-30% Process stability Improved production planning MES-Solution Synergies Exploitation We support you in exploiting your MES-solution functionalities to ensure higher process optimization and help to identify additional productivity potentials. Robust, stable and sustainable processes Additional ways to increase productivity Better use of collected data Increased employee satisfaction Additional elimination of waste Performance Monitoring (KPI) Companies need powerful performance measurement systems to effectively manage and control operational processes. We assist you in building an individual process-oriented performance measurement system. Improve transparency Reveal additional productivity potentials Support of continuous improvement Goal-oriented performance monitoring 4
Grass GmbH For more than 30 years Grass GmbH is a proven industry specialist and a leading supplier for manufacturing-related standard software, consulting services including Lean Management and Technology Consulting services within the roll manufacturing and converting industry worldwide. We speak our customer s language. GRASS consultants are specialists in your field of operations. Take advantage of Grass GmbH best-practice solutions and profound knowledge. Therefore, there is no reason to train consultants until they can make a significant contribution to your optimization efforts. Thus, work with experts only and shorten your pay-back period of your investment. Our Company Credo In accordance to our credo "Programs for People" we serve to meet the long-term goals of our customers and run a people-oriented company. We position our staff according to their strengths. We generate profit that allows our shareholders to make the right entrepreneurial decisions and commit ourselves in social projects. Our Customer Philosophy Synergy - by outsourcing Concentration on core competences Value adding services and products Concentrate on your core competences with minimized risk and maximum benefits. Your core competence is producing and converting. Ours is providing software and consulting services for the production and converting solely focusing on rolls, reels and sheets. We strive for long-term cooperation and partnerships and are consistently focused on our customer s needs. International Success And References Over 5.000 users worldwide at 25 plants International clients: RENOLIT SE, Worms, Germany RENOLIT SE, Waldkraiburg, Germany RENOLIT SE, Frankenthal, Germany American RENOLIT Corporation, La Porte, USA MONDI Gronau GmbH, Gronau, Germany Klöckner Pentaplast GmbH & Co. KG, Heiligenroth, Germany Klöckner Pentaplast GmbH & Co. KG, Gendorf, Burgkirchen, Germany Kloeckner Pentaplast Ltd., Rayong, Thailand Klöckner Pentaplast of America Inc., Gordonsville, USA Klöckner Pentaplast of America Inc., Rural Retreat, USA Klöckner Pentaplast of America Inc., Beckley, USA Klöckner Pentaplast Rus, St. Petersburg, Russia Pentaplast S.A., Santo Tirso, Portugal Klöckner Pentaplast España S.A.U., Sant Feliu de Buixalleu, Spain Klöckner Pentaplast Schweiz AG, Bern, Switzerland Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc., Gordonsville, USA Kalle GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany Constantia Patz Ges.m.b.H, Loipersbach, Austria Bilcare Research GmbH, Germany Consulting projects: Treofan Germany GmbH & Co KG, Neunkirchen, Germany Bilcare Research GmbH, Staufen, Germany SCHOTT AG, Mainz, Germany RENOLIT SE, Worms, Germany Klöckner Pentaplast GmbH & Co. KG, Heiligenroth, Germany Kalle GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany 5
Copyright Grass GmbH 2016 GRASS Consulting Lean Excellence For further information and any kind of questions please do not hesitate to contact me directly. Kindest regards from Bad Kreuznach Joachim Schütz Head of Sales Grass GmbH Your contact partner: Grass GmbH Dipl. Kfm. Joachim Schütz Head of Sales Kreuzstraße 24 55543 Bad Kreuznach Telefon: +49.671.9289-154 Telefax: +49.671.9289-111 Mobil: +49.151.42202853 E-Mail: schuetz@grass-gmbh.de www.grass-gmbh.com 6