The Golden Rules of Gemba Management - Masaaki Imai

1. When a problem (abnormality) arises, go to gemba first  2. Check the gembutsu (relevant objects) 3. Take temporary countermeasures on the spot 4. Find the root cause 5. Standardize to prevent recurrence

Eliminate Waste • Reduce Variability • Remove Constraints

Status quo business practices stagnate your performance and negatively affect your customers and bottom line.  Operating Excellence is a management system where processes are evaluated for value, waste is eliminated, and variation reduced to increase customer responsiveness, efficiency, and flexibility.  Ultimately the process value add to non-value add ratio is increased.

Partner with OP•EX Direct Results Inc. and our team will evaluate your current state, developing a blueprint to reach an operating excellence future state business model.  We will deliver the implementation phase, executing the Lean Six Sigma PDCA continual improvement cycle to deliver flawless breakthrough and sustainable gains.

Creating Value • Delivering Results

Our team of professional change agents specialize in creating value and delivering results to the bottom line through reducing process variation and waste elimination.  Our strategic approach, operating excellence is a combination of leadership, teamwork, and continual improvement methods which have been tested over time and proven to drive dramatic, rapid improvement. 

Our team is dedicated to building a foundation from which our clients can prosper.  We believe in complete transfer of knowledge so that every customer can continue to make sustainable progress year over year and achieve an operating excellence environment.

Learn to leverage powerful methods and our expertise to deliver dramatic results in productivity gains, enhance the quality of your value streams, and drive down your business enterprise cost structure.

We partner with our clients creating an operating environment with the flexibility and speed to satisfy customer demands, achieve a competitive cost structure, and meet the markets needs to ultimately grow your business and profit margin year over year. We are committed to achieving results!

OP•EX is a highly advanced and sophisticated system of management sciences which leverages Lean Six Sigma, Engineering Solutions, and Leadership to establish world class business enterprise performance.

Providing Valuable Knowledge • Educating Future Experts

OP•EX Direct Results Inc. believes that the best foundation a client can build for continuing success is to invest in their top talent.  At our OP•EX Academy we help our clients create this foundation through excellence in Lean Six Sigma education. 

Our academy utilizes Certified Lean Masters and Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belts to educate and certify client candidates in the Lean Way and the Six Sigma DMAIC statistical improvement method.  Our academy provides certification in Lean Leader and Lean Tatsujin™ levels under our exclusive Lean Belt™ training program.  Following the same vigorous format as our Lean Belt™ training process, we also provide training and certification in Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt statistical improvement levels. This powerful integrated approach has become the standard for performance improvement education.

Our singular purpose is to teach and mentor candidates towards achieving levels of knowledge and practical application for successful certification.  This certification is an industry brand that acknowledges these individuals as practitioners capable of executing Lean Six Sigma for immediate, measurable bottom line results.  

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