winning minds solutions growth and reviews

S.no	Industry	Issues / Struggles	Tool / Technique Application	Results Achieved
1.	Vehicle Mfg	Delivery delay / low Capacity Utilization	OEE improvement in Fabrication and Assembly lines, People engagement, Inventory Management	Manufacturing lead time reduction by 50 %(21 days to 10 days)
2.	Casting Mfg	Eroding profitability / Low manpower Produtivity	OEE Improvements, Setting time reduction, Low cost automation, KPI focus, Maintenance Management, People Engagement	Production Capacity Enhancement per day increased by 22 %; Setting time reduction from 4.5 hrs to 2 hrs; Profitability in crease by 3 times
3.	Precision Comp Mfg	Delivery issue / Low plant utilization	OEE improvement , Flow Improvement, Cycle time reduction, Build in Quality initiatives, Inventory management	Plant manpower productivity increase by 27 % ; Production Schedule actualisation improved from 76 % to 96 % ; Overall manufacturing cost reduction by 7 % ; Inventory reduction by 60 %
4.	Forging Mfg	Delivery issue /Negative operational profit	OEE improvement, Setting time reduction; Structured problem solving, KPI focus, daily management	100 % delivery improved; setting time reduction from 4.5 hrs to 1 hr; 25 % manpower productivity improvement ; 8 % improvement in material yield
5.	Gear Mfg	Delivery back log and Team morale issues	OEE Improvements, Flow manufacturing, KPI focus, Daily management	39 % sales turn over increased.
6.	Signage Mfg	Delivery backlog / low productivity / lack of daily management	OEE focus, Line balancing, Relay out from process to product, Setting time reduction, Cycle time reduction, KPI focus, daily management	28 % reduction in mfg cost; Mfg lead time reduction from 10 days to 4 days
7.	Al Casting Mfg	Delivery backlog / Losing of customers / Negativeprofit	Performance management, Industrial Engineering, Daily work management	Business turnover increase by 45 % , Loss making to profitability; Customer service improvement-from 60 % to > 85 %
8.	Casting Mfg	Delivery backlog / Growth stagnation	Performance management, Lean Iniativies, Daily work management	Business turnover increase by 34 %
9.	Auto Component Mfg	Delivery backlog / brim capacity utilization	Value Stream Mapping , OEE Improvement, People Engagement Initiatives	Production Capacity Enhancement by 15% without investment
10.	Tube Products Mfg	Delivery backlog / Low eqpt utilization	Value Stream Mapping, SMED	Delivery lead time reduction by 50 %, Setting time reduction from 5 hrs to 2 hrs
11.	Plastic Extrusion comp Mfg	Poor layout / low productivity	Greenfield project with lean layout design and implementation	Space Productivity by 25 %
12.	Construction Extrusion comp Mfg	Delivery backlog / Low manpower productivity	Line Balancing, methods Improvement	Manpower productivity by 32 % and Plant Capacity Enhancement
13.	Food Processing	Delivery backlog / Low productivity	OEE Improvement Inventory Management	Productivity Improvement by 30 %

J S R K Prasad, CEO, Better Castings, Vijayawada

“Winning Minds” has helped us in building a culture of management by numbers from top down bottom. This has given us insight in to the operations, enabling us to clearly define goals at every level. Setting of the goals and the targeted actions has enhanced the operational efficiency and business growth over 30 %.

D.Vijay, Managing Director, Southern Agro Pvt limited, Chennai

Ganesh babu‘s patience to understand the customer’s business issues and ability to connect different dots to arrive solutions approach is amazing. His Handholding practices helped our group companies in a big way.

V.Kumarasubramaniam, Senior General Manager, Tube Products of India, Chennai

What differentiate Ganesh babu from others, is that his inclination to drive result and involvement to work as internal team member. He played crucial role in our projects to arrive solutions.

Shankar Raman, Indian Institute of Foundry Men, Coimbatore

Customized Lean Manufacturing programme for Foundry Industries was well received by participants. His simplified methodology of applying the lean solutions can be applied in any SME’s with less effort.

Suresh Kumar, CEO, Integra Automation Private Limited, Coimbatore

We benefited in many ways because of Winning Minds Interventions and Ganesh babu’s practical approach in applying LEAN SYSTEM THINKING in foundry industries.

Malti Kumar, Director - Operations, Ambient Controls Pvt limited, Bangalore

We are thankful to Mr. Ganesh Babu for his support and teachings. He is a very good mentor and we would love to associate with him in future.

Nagender Rao, Deputy Director, CII,Pondicherry on Personal Leadership Seminar

This is one of the programme wherein 100 % participants enjoyed and rated as “Excellent”

K.Nagaraja Kumar -Head HR & Improvement Initiatives,L&T-Rubber Processing Machinery

Mr.Ganesh Babu,with his rich knowledge,wisdom,Team Building ability,down to earth approach,Winnning the accepting minds from everyone helped us to improve our score in the Frost & Sullivan -India Manufacturing Excellence Award 2015