Reduce waste and transform inefficiencies into real opportunities. Our specialist consultancy begins by assessing and analyzing processes. From there, we prioritize significant optimizations that realize operational improvement and impact the bottom line.
Scrap the inefficiencies
Increasingly competitive markets and ever demanding business conditions mean that manufacturers are looking for ways to reduce waste and associated costs.
During an initial assessment, our approach shows the full magnitude of potential waste reduction opportunities. These often reveal remarkable potential gains, far larger than what was previously realized.
In the following launch phase, our consultants work with your team to recover the value revealed during the initial scan. The causes of the largest losses are systematically targeted with actions implemented to reduce, eliminate and convert this wasted potential into bottom line impact.
Blending insight and instinct
To deliver rapid, remarkable, and long-lasting productivity gains, we combine a proven process with our time-served expertise and embedded team of engineers, scientists and specialists. Alongside technically and tactically identifying opportunities, our project management experience allows us to make fundamental changes to your organization in a matter of weeks to meet your waste reduction goals.
2 weeks
We quickly assess the scale of opportunity in your business – working closely with your team to understand the existing barriers and limits to performance through an Opportunity Scan.
2-3 months
As part of a pilot project, we will demonstrate just how much potential exists. We deeply embed ourselves into your workforce, forming a small team with a cross-section of your organization.
2-9 months
Using our results-focused methodology, we redefine possible to deliver remarkable results that impact the bottom line. Often seen in a matter of weeks, these tangible and far-reaching improvements will be based on your unique needs, and our team will support the wider organization through the change process.
Beyond Chartwell
By achieving sustainable results and implementing impactful solutions, our interventions are designed to remain effective long after the project or deployment is complete. But much of this depends on your team, and their ability to contribute to lasting improvement. As a result, we have developed a series of tailored workshops, toolkits and methodologies, which help you learn our approach, overcome constraints, and deliver improvements without us being on site.
FAQs
Explore frequently asked questions for Chartwell’s waste reduction solutions.
Reducing waste with Chartwell
A waste reduction project at Chartwell identifies where material, scrap, and yield are being lost in your processes and then targets the biggest losses with practical actions to reduce and eliminate waste to turn inefficiencies into bottom-line impact. Chartwell looks across your operations to deliver rapid, measurable waste reduction without relying on major capital investment.
Chartwell focuses on the largest process losses revealed during the initial assessment as part of the Chartwell Opportunity Scan and then prioritizes optimizations that reduce and eliminate waste and associated costs, delivering measurable operational and financial impact.
Chartwell begins with an initial assessment, the Chartwell Opportunity Scan, that shows the full magnitude of waste reduction opportunities often revealing far larger potential gains than were previously realized.
Yes. Chartwell’s methodology is designed to reduce waste regardless of sector or site, tailoring the work to your process realities whether they are continuous, batch, discrete, or hybrid operations.
Immediate opportunities are typically identified within weeks of the Chartwell Opportunity Scan, with rapid implementation possible during the pilot phase, often delivering tangible savings within weeks. Chartwell waste reduction solutions are part of a results-focused methodology that consistently improves manufacturing productivity by 20-50% within 6 months.
The work is designed to remain effective beyond deployment by establishing practical performance routines, visibility tools, and coaching so the team can hold the reductions and keep making improvements. Chartwell also offers workshops and toolkits to build capability.
What a Chartwell waste reduction project looks like
Chartwell’s delivery is typically phased: ~2 weeks to assess as part of the Chartwell Opportunity Scan, 2–3 months to demonstrate results via a pilot, and 2–9 months to redefine performance at scale depending on your scope and needs.
Chartwell rapidly assesses the scale of opportunity by working closely with your team to identify the barriers and limits to performance as part of the Chartwell Opportunity Scan, so you get a clear view of the constraint, the losses, why opportunity exists and the fastest path to results.
Chartwell demonstrates what’s possible by embedding into the workforce and forming a small cross-functional rapid results team (RRT). The RRT prove the gains in live operations so the wider rollout is grounded in real results, not theory.
Using a results‑focused methodology, Chartwell delivers tangible improvements, often seen in weeks, and supports the wider organization through the change process.
The intent is the opposite: reduce waste while production continues. The team works in the reality of day-to-day operations, implementing changes in a controlled way so waste reductions are delivered without unnecessary disruption. This is vital as we are often supporting our clients with the their most urgent challenges, and therefore need to manage continued customer delivery as well as significant change.
A committed cross-functional core team and access to operational data and daily realities. Sustainable improvement depends on your team’s ability to adopt routines and drive the changes forward. Chartwell builds that capability as part of our improvement projects.