Manufacturing Productivity

Our associate to lead these assignments is Peter Moore.

Peter Moore, B.Sc (Hons), DMS, has 34 years of technical, operations and general management experience in the food and drink industry.

Although he says that he learns something new every day, Peter gathered and honed his skills with blue chip organisations such as Grand Metropolitan and South African Breweries between 1975 and 1995. Since then he has worked with SME organisations utilising and adapting the tools used by the larger companies to drive growth, continuous improvement and profit, often in situations where the businesses had become static and stagnant. He has enjoyed seeing the quantum improvement possible through putting robust systems in place. He has also learnt what does not work and, more importantly, the reasons why.

During his career, Peter has held 7 directorships, 5 in executive positions plus 2 non executive roles. He has held the position of Managing Director in 3 businesses.

Peter is a champion of the Investors in People (IIP) standard, being an early adopter in 1992 and having successfully led the accreditation process in 3 businesses. He believes strongly that having great products and facilities gives capability but it is the efforts of all the people employed in a business that will make it work or otherwise. He could be described as being a poacher turned gamekeeper, having been a union shop steward in the mid seventies before taking his first management role in 1979.
During this period he challenged the union ‘us and them’ attitudes and expounded the benefits of working together. He put fellow managers’ noses out of joint by insisting on union and shop floor representation in the first ‘quality improvement circles’ he set up and chaired in his first management role.

He has also seen many well intentioned business initiatives fail due to poor analysis, preparation and understanding at board level, leading to doomed implementation processes. The bottom line is that he sees good business culture and communication being the essential foundation stone before commencing any business improvement process.

Peter also has significant expertise in Lean manufacturing techniques. However, he believes that there is a lot of misinformation and dogma related to what Lean or associated World Class Manufacturing is. He believes that too few manufacturing professionals know that Lean was simply the term used by Jim Womak and Dan Jones to describe the Toyota Production System. He also believes that the Six Sigma technique being pushed as the cornerstone for Lean by many consultants is totally wrong in many if not most improvement initiatives.

Throughout his career, Peter has made use of no less than 64 improvement tools and techniques, but believes that these provide a ‘Pick and Mix’ toolkit to aid the journey towards a World Class Manufacturing OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) of 85%. His experience is that a mixture of 5S (Workplace Organisation- Sort, Set, Sweep/Shine, Standardise, Sustain), TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) and SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die), will take most manufacturing organisations well towards their goals.

Overall, Peter gets a huge buzz out of challenging the status quo, rewriting the business road map and then providing the tools and techniques required to reach the milestones.

To find out more please contact Peter Moore at peter.moore@heawood.com

Experience
Our Associates’ experience includes marketing, buying, and market research in diverse fields from fmcg food (chilled, frozen and ambient), alcohol, household, tobacco, toiletries and transport and operate at
all levels

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