Evex Consulting

About

evEX Consulting is committed to helping your business be sustainable. We save people money. We add value. We address issues that impact the success and health of your business and your bottom line. We do this by discovering, designing and implementing practical, pragmatic and sustainable solutions approved by you. We are avid fans of the Toyota Production System and the learning�s from Toyota. Moreover, we ensure you succeed and that your business is better than before we started.

* Do you suspect that your business could be doing better?

* Are you at a loss where and how to get started?

* Do you have specific targets and goals you need help achieving?

* Do you have the people that you need to see the job done?

We leverage and deliver real benefits to your business. We also work collaboratively with other professionals who are forerunners in their field to bring about exceptional outcomes.

evEX Consulting has assisted, trained or worked in the following industries:

Food Processing (FMCG), Automotive, Mining, Dairy, Refining, Construction Materials, Packaging, Plastics, Films, Surface Coatings and various other process industries.

evEX Consulting specializes and provides business solutions in:

* Change Management, Turnarounds and Transformational Activities

* Project Management, New Product Development & Process Simplification

* Operations Management improvement, efficiency and effectiveness

* Lean concepts: 5S, TOC, JIT, TQM, TPM, VSM, SMED

* Strategic Analysis, Decision Making and Problem Solving

* Mind Mapping, Brainstorming and Storyboarding

* Leadership, Personnel and Skill development through coaching

We work on site to make excellence visible and recognisable. Most of all, we make Continuous Improvement fun!

Making everyday Excellent

To discuss your particular or specific needs please contact: Robert Heslop by phone or email.

Director Profile:

Robert Heslop is a pragmatic industrial practitioner with national consulting and international executive and operational experience. With an honours degree from the Engineering Faculty at the University of Melbourne and an MBA from the Melbourne Business School, Robert combines his 25 years of experience to leverage and deliver real benefits to your business.

Robert, who is Melbourne based, formerly worked for CTPM Australasia and was the Plant Manager for Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Site Director for Rhodia Australia, VP Manufacturing and Operations Manager with UCB Films (in USA and Australia) and Operations and Technical Manager for ICI Australia (Propafilm).

Robert is known for his strong rapport with clients and for working collaboratively with business owners and managers to develop and implement long-term sustainably focused solutions. In all, Robert has assisted, trained or worked in: Food Processing (FMCG), Automotive, Mining, Dairy, Refining, Construction Materials, Packaging, Plastics, Films, Surface Coatings and various other process industries.

Achievements include:

� Assisted an automotive OEM raise OEE from 55% to 98% on a critical line with no redundancy resulting in savings of approximately $2.6M over a 6 month period.

� Steered successive teams in the refining industry to improve inventory accuracy and reduce stock variance losses by $150k over a 3-month period, with further reductions over the next six successive months.

� Supported a Tier 1 automotive supplier transition their continuous improvement activities to a structured framework of improvement with strategic directional focus involving 100% participation by shop floor employees in a workforce of approximately 140.

� Guided a team in the refining industry to accurately classify all production and consequently reduce downgrades generating savings of approximately $120k per year.

� Coached, guided and facilitated no less than three separate sites to achieve savings of at least $500k each in their goal to be more competitive and inclusive of their workforce.

� Managed, led and engaged an entire specialty chemicals site to reduce inventory by 46% and increase turns by 74% in 2002.

� Led the team which devised and engineered the process and product development resulting in the manufacture of GLS films (a range of "shrink tidying" high performance box overwrap films) in Australia.