Manufacturing and packaging are in a squeeze, with customers demanding more for less; raw material, energy and labour rates are rising; low cost overseas competition is growing; and regulatory pressure and costs an increasing burden.

Whether you are some way down your improvement journey or just starting out, Picme can offer a range of tailor made services to help you improve your processes. We can start with an assessment or benchmarking activity to point you in the right direction or if it’s a specific issue you are facing, we have a wide range of tools and services that we can draw upon to deliver improvements through developing your own people.

Using its improvement programmes Picme has helped manufacturers to:

• substantially increase capacity of existing facilities without capital expenditure,
• increase plant reliability,
• increase right first time manufacture,
• increase process yields,
• improve customer service levels
• increase flexibility reducing changeovers and cleandowns
• increase regulatory compliance (e.g. FDA, GMP) and safety
• reduce costs
• reduce duration of plant shutdowns, and maintenance tasks
• reduce lead times and dependency on stock