Tag: collaboration

Delivering expertise for large, complex greenfield facility projects

Greenfield Development

Expertise for Complex Greenfield Facility

When a Fortune 100 energy company faced critical challenges with a new greenfield facility, Kormac’s team stepped in to provide crucial expertise. We drove collaboration between stakeholders and implemented robust project management to get the complex development back on track. See how our targeted support and partnership delivered big results for this major project….

GE Appliances to invest $3B in US manufacturing. The funds will help the front-load washer manufacturer continue to reshore production from Mexico and China. Published Aug. 14, 2025. By Sara Samora, Reporter. Features an image with the caption: A general view of the production line at GE appliances on Aug. 13 in Louisville, Kentucky. The company aims to reshore production of its GE Profile brand washer and dryer combo and UltraFresh front-load washer line from China at the Louisville facility. - Michael Hickey for GE Appliances, a Haier company via Getty Images

Reshoring

Greenfield & Brownfield Expansions

A historic shift towards reshoring is underway, with over $1 trillion in new U.S. manufacturing commitments. However, turning these bold announcements into successful operations is a complex, multi-year challenge. Kormac provides the specialized expertise to bridge this gap. We help manufacturers navigate greenfield expansions to turn ambitious plans into reality….

Traverse Connect & GTAMC Present the Northern Michigan Manufacturing Summit. Featuring speakers like Stan Gwizdak from the Kormac Group

Digital & AI

Technology Alone Isn’t a Panacea

Strategic Procurement offers major supply chain savings, but only when done right. We’ve compiled the 7 most common pitfalls we see in Strategic Procurement deployments, along with the strategies we employ to help our client partners avoid them….

Collaborative Change Engaging for Sustainable Change To ensure projects have "no bystander or victims," we seek employee input and participation every step of the way. Employee-driven Change for a Global Manufacturer - 200 participants, 6 weeks, 318 issues identified, 18 common themes, and 4 priorities. Employee engagement is also crucial for change sustainability. Our projects follow an "I do, we do, you do" transition process as our client team's readiness to drive the change increases over time.

Collaborative Change

Engaging Employees for Sustainability

Lasting change starts from within. That’s why our change management approach harnesses the collective wisdom of front-line employees. To ensure our projects have “no bystanders or victims,” we seek employee input and participation every step of the way….

From the shop floor to the back office, Kormac takes a collaborative approach to Kaizen that brings people together. Ordinary tools: Go to Gemba, Spaghetti charts, Yamazumi charts, Visual factory, cellular design/layout, customer demand/takt time, value stream mapping, undesirable observations (UDOs), waste elimination (8 wastes), activity of the product, load sheet calculations, review constraints, manpower requirements, line balancing, standard work, system alignment, visual controls. Extraordinary Results: Improving productivity, communication, uptime, capacity, and yield. Reducing cycle time, footprint, resource requirements, process steps & rework, Work in Process (WIP), foreign object debris, storage time, inspection time, and transportation time. Proven tools employed with care yield lasting culture and performance improvements.

Collaborative Kaizens

Engaging and Aligning through Kaizen

As Kaizen nears its 40th birthday, its relevance is far from “over the hill.” Kormac Kaizens bring people together to optimize speed, footprint, resource requirements, inventory, and more. …

Inventory Intelligence Inventory Reduction: Actionable Insights For a global manufacturer, Kormac delivered SKU-level and group-level inventory management insights, revealing opportunities to: - Improve inventory turns and balances - increase visibility and address non-moving inventory - Improve and sustain customer service performance Our collaboration enabled a $20 million reduction in inventory.

Inventory Insights

Actionable Insights for Inventory Reduction

A global manufacturer engaged Kormac for assistance in achieving sustainable inventory management. Our analysis and collaboration contributed to a $20 million (10%) reduction in inventory in the first year….

Compliance Group Inc and Kormac Group: MedTech Quality Collaboration.

MedTech Quality Collaboration

From sushi to kaizen

Kormac and Compliance Group are helping MedTech organizations improve the operational and technological dimensions of quality assurance….

Manufacturing Inventory Reduction: Achieved Elusive Inventory Management Target Implemented global best practices; achieved corporate inventory target for the first time in 7 years.

Manufacturing Inventory Reduction

Achieved Elusive Inventory Management Target

To improve cash flow while mitigating risk, many companies are reevaluating their approach to inventory management. Excess materials and persistent shortages remain despite the overall recovery from pandemic constraints. When times were tough, gaps in inventory management discipline magnified the impact of constrained supply chains. As conditions improve, discipline gaps still leave...
Delivering Delight Good People Doing Good Work Leaders engage consultants for countless reasons, but how often do they actually enjoy the collaboration? Our clients say... "Kormac was a pleasure to work with" "A great value" "Highly impressed with their talent" "Executed to our fullest expectations" "Strongly recommended"

Delivering Delight

Good People Doing Good Work

Leaders engage consultants for countless reasons, but how often do they actually enjoy the collaboration? We frequently hear stories of client trauma inflicted by consultancies that left behind unresolved problems or cultural damage. Why? Too many consultants prioritize their own business needs over their clients’. Inverting that myopic approach, Kormac’s...