Strategies for Manufacturing Excellence
About MxStrategies™
Drawing from decades of hands-on success working within global operations to drive corporate and site improvement, MxStrategies delivers sustainable systems and best practices that engage your organization in the pursuit of manufacturing excellence.
MxStrategies was founded in 2009 with the purpose of providing process industry manufacturing businesses with strategies, tools, and expertise that lend competitive advantage through excellence in performance and reliability.
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Our Mission
Our mission is to achieve sustainable break-through results and deliver on-going business value for clients through ingrained best practices, knowledge, tools and systems that increase organizational aptitude and equip your company for continuous progress.
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What We Do
We are an organization of manufacturing experts. We hire the best programming expertise and systems. We deploy our consultants to ensure your success. We provide proprietary operational excellence software designed to enable best practices, provide uniform visibility across operations, assure data integrity and enable executive oversight.
OUR APPROACH
MxStrategies is a group of practitioners, meaning all of our consultants have practical experience in changing organizations from the inside. Our method is based on Organizational Engagement - building knowledge, practices, tools and processes to create continuous improvement.
MxStrategies' approach combines best practices, professional services and software tools to provide a comprehensive improvement plan. Our methods are refined to enable sustainable results that deliver business value.
Through working with MxStrategies, your organization can expect:
Reliable and Effective Manufacturing Processes
Clarity for Setting Strategy, Goals and Measuring Results
Productively Engaged
Workforce
Clear Results,
Delivering
Business Benefit
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Operators operating & accounting for their production
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Supervisors providing guidance & insight
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Engineers getting to root cause and implementing solutions
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Managers understanding performance & dealing with barriers
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Lean manufacturing: eliminate wastes, losses in production performance
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Make what you want to make, when you want to make it, at the desired rate
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Best practices for reliability, maintenance
& mechanical integrity
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Harvest value through global capacity gain/ capital deferment strategy
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Rally point for organization: consistency in method and metrics across all sites
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Metrics configured to mirror organization: performance versus ideal & plan
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Global Production Clarity: productivity, mix, capital projects, sales demand
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Actual Operating Capacity: productivity, expansion & process improvement gains
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Performance that ties to business impact
Our leadership Team
David E. Brown, PE
President
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Reliability, Maint., Manuf. Ex. SME
Scott Reifsnyder
P'hd Chemical Engineering
Process Development/Improvement SME
W.C. Crenshaw
M.S. Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing Excellence SME
William Whitmire
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Strategic Information Technology SME
Sachin Paliwal
B.E. Electronics Engineering
Ideas to Software, Web App SME
Carolyn Brady
B.A., Business & Economics
Executive Administration SME
Patrick Grozier
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Manufacturing Excellence SME
Our Clients include
MxStrategies’ objective is our clients’ immediate & longer-term success.
We seek and deliver business value as we embed tools and practices into your organization that encourage and enable the pursuit of excellence.
Rob Haire,
FMC
Plant Manager
"This well designed software product, the associated management systems, and supporting best practices provide us with a sustainable system for year over year performance improvement."
"MxStrategies delivers results, through MxMax and effective consulting support. MxMax is impressive, with its user friendly interface, web based delivery, and meaningful reports."
Tracy Barlow,
FMC
Continuous
Improvement Manager
“MxStrategies provides FMC Lithium with robust support for our operational excellence initiative."