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Food and Beverage Consulting

Enhancing food and beverage manufacturing to improve productivity, reduce costs, and foster quality

In the rapidly evolving landscape of food and beverage production, companies face increasing challenges from thin profit margins, rising inflation, and shifting consumer expectations for transparency and sustainability. With raw materials accounting for over 50% of total costs and escalating energy prices, businesses must adopt strategies that embrace vision, adaptability, and discipline.

We aim to place organizations at the forefront of this transformation, providing consulting and training services that empower the food industry and the beverage industry to increase productivity, maximize financial returns, and align with global trends such as decarbonization and digitalization. Leveraging industry expertise, innovative solutions, and tailored strategies, we help clients deliver value across the entire food supply chain.

Want to foster growth and efficiency
in Food & Beverage Operations

How we can help

Improve operational efficiency

Enhancing efficiency with lean solutions like KAIZEN™ Kobetsu for equipment failures, planned, predictive, and autonomous maintenance, and SMED to reduce changeover time.

Increase material yield

Improve process control with Lean Six Sigma, eliminate machine inefficiencies, reengineer products to reduce waste, and reintroduce by-products.

Increase resource productivity

Improve resource productivity with line design, develop training plans for standard compliance, implement synchronized logistics loops between production and logistics, and optimize warehouse design.

Simplify the food & beverage supply chain

Refine stock management policies, implement planning algorithms based on historical data, and reduce supplier dependence to minimize sourcing variability.

Develop sustainable operations

Leverage data analytics for a zero-carbon roadmap, measure energy consumption in real-time, conduct cost-benefit analyses to identify critical equipment in energy performance, and decrease material consumption.

Implement a KAIZEN™ culture

Organize production lines in value streams to improve flexibility, deploy new standards with training plans, and implement team development programs.

Harness the Power of Data

Go Digital by combining the toolboxes of automation and digital information to transform your operations and differentiate your offer.

Leverage Lean Six Sigma Techniques

Implement lean methodologies in your strategy to reduce non-quality costs and increase first-time quality, improve production planning, eliminate waste, and bolster bottom-line results.

Implement Total Productive Maintenance

Create top-performing operations by boosting efficiency through a Total Productive Maintenance strategy.

Enhancing efficiency with lean solutions like KAIZEN™ Kobetsu for equipment failures, planned, predictive, and autonomous maintenance, and SMED to reduce changeover time.

Improve process control with Lean Six Sigma, eliminate machine inefficiencies, reengineer products to reduce waste, and reintroduce by-products.

Improve resource productivity with line design, develop training plans for standard compliance, implement synchronized logistics loops between production and logistics, and optimize warehouse design.

Refine stock management policies, implement planning algorithms based on historical data, and reduce supplier dependence to minimize sourcing variability.

Leverage data analytics for a zero-carbon roadmap, measure energy consumption in real-time, conduct cost-benefit analyses to identify critical equipment in energy performance, and decrease material consumption.

Organize production lines in value streams to improve flexibility, deploy new standards with training plans, and implement team development programs.

Go Digital by combining the toolboxes of automation and digital information to transform your operations and differentiate your offer.

Implement lean methodologies in your strategy to reduce non-quality costs and increase first-time quality, improve production planning, eliminate waste, and bolster bottom-line results.

Create top-performing operations by boosting efficiency through a Total Productive Maintenance strategy.

Impact

15 to 25%

Average overall effectiveness increase

45 to 55%

Average setup change over time reduction

3 to 8%

Average materials savings increase

10 to 20%

Average raw materials
costs reduction

5 to 10%

Average quality loss reduction

20 to 30%

Average Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) increase

Our Approach

The KAIZEN™ approach begins with an end-to-end analysis. This analysis leads to a customized solution design and implementation plan. The contribution of the teams is critical to the success of any Lean journey. We organize our customers’ teams to break functional silos and develop continuous improvement skills.

KAIZEN Institute's process roadmap with six numbered steps interconnected in a sequential flow. Step 1: Preparation. Step 2: Current state analysis, Step 3: On-the-job training. Step 4: Vision design. Step 5: ROI Calculation, and Step 6: Implementation Roadmap.
KAIZEN Institute's process roadmap with six numbered steps interconnected in a sequential flow. Step 1: Preparation. Step 2: Current state analysis, Step 3: On-the-job training. Step 4: Vision design. Step 5: ROI Calculation, and Step 6: Implementation Roadmap.

We support our clients in implementing the initiative’s plan, ensuring set objectives are met.

Ready to start?

Find out what are the key opportunities in your processes by conducting a diagnosis workshop.

Change Management

Kaizen Institute’s approach is practical, pragmatic, and collaborative. We work with our customers in their Gemba – where the action takes place – and observe the opportunities first-hand.

Our experts combine deep expertise with refined analytical and problem-solving skills, bringing an external and fact-based perspective to the industry’s challenges and opportunities.

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We create customized solutions for every business area

Kaizen Institute works directly with the client teams, ​with a “Hands On” and “Teaching by Doing” approach​