Overview
[NEEDS New CONTENT] In order to stay competitive in the marketplace, manufacturing leaders should always be considering new ways to grow the business and maintain their competitiveness.
ANEEDS CONTENT e.g. AMT can help you identify and develop new business opportunities that align with your overall strategic plan. The degree of business growth will vary depending on each manufacturers’ needs. Growth can occur with product development, new markets, technology applications, modifications to existing products, and more.
[NEEDS CONTENT]. How we do it
Successful businesses develop and deploy a strategic plan that aligns the organization to ensure that everyone is working toward the same business goals. AMT utilizes a systematic strategic planning process that includes four phases: Discovery, Plan Development, Plan Deployment, and Plan Management.
Whether it is creating a marketing plan, diversifying your customer base, identifying new sales channels or determining how to price your product, AMT’s expertise in sales & marketing will provide the answers to help your business grow.
You have worked hard to build your business and make it successful. Planning for the future can ensure the value and continuity of what you have built for you, your family, your employees and your community. We can help you with the transition.
One opportunity for growing your business might come through creating new markets and new customers outside the United States. AMT and its partner CIBA can help determine potential opportunities for your company. We can assist your company in developing export strategies and connect you to the right resources to help you establish the systems, meet industry standards, and open the door to new international markets.
An integral part of a business growth strategy involves the creation of innovative products and services to achieve competitive market advantages and better address customer needs. New product development is a challenging, complex undertaking that involves critical interdependent activities and considerations. AMT’s New Product Development services will help your organization create and implement a process to bring your new products to market more effectively and efficiently.
AMT helps manufacturing companies put the processes in place to achieve higher levels of quality that can lead to reduced costs and increased customer approval. Quality certifications are available specific to the industry a company works. Many large corporate buyers require their suppliers maintain current certifications. Manufacturers who are certified, have a greater opportunity to gain new sales and attract new buyers. AMT has successfully completed hundreds of Quality Management System projects and can assist you with multiple quality standards including ISO 9000, ISO 13485, ISO 14000, TS 16949, AS 9100, cGMP.
Enterprise-wide lean methodologies provide a customizable, measurable, and proven framework that transforms your company into a sustainable Lean Enterprise. Lean thinking, incorporated in your business strategy, is the foundation of a high-performance enterprise. Lean eliminates waste and provides manufacturers with the biggest opportunity for immediate bottom-line improvement. AMT can assist you in strategic and policy deployment activities to ensure successful planning and execution. Tools include Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Kanban/Pull Systems, Flow Manufacturing, Set-up Reduction, Standardized Work, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
Empower your employees to think like business owners through the power of play. Experience the results of sound business sense.
Celemi Apples & Oranges™: Business Finance for Everyone: Participants get an overview of how their whole organization functions, and can relate their daily actions and decisions to the company’s profit and loss statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement. Participants are grouped in teams which run one company each, competing with the other teams. To see if they win or lose, they have to complete the financial statements every simulated year. The learning curve is steep and with their new insight, participants come up with ideas how to improve profitability.
AMT staff are trained facilitators for Celemi Apples & Oranges™
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Grant opportunities may be available to offset consulting and training costs.
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“This program was beneficial and has allowed us to achieve a level of productivity we would not have otherwise attained. We are also now positioned to go after new market opportunities for our sterilization platform.”
Wayne has an excellent all around knowledge of strategic Human Resources and how to transform HR from simply a department into a business strategy that yields results!
“Audits by AMT remain consistent and effective. You provide a valued service for DYCO Manufacturing to remain competitive with good quality products. Glenn has been excellent.”
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“AMT’s consultant facilitated a well-planned and effective Internal Quality Audit of ENSCO Avionics. His knowledge of AS9100D and the AS9115A software supplement afforded valued insight resulting in several OFIs that will improve the QMS and better prepare ENSCO Avionics for its 2021 Annual Surveillance Audit.”
“The AMT/MAP project enabled CPSI Biotech to expand our capabilities in a timely, flexible, and cost-effective manner. Beyond achieving our objectives of this project, the networking component of working with AMT has been very beneficial to our corporate goals of promoting individual growth step-in-step with company improvements.”
“The training and support that was provided to Golden Artist Colors by AMT was perfect. We have been provided with the building blocks to have a sustainable Continuous Improvement program and value the relationship that we have established with AMT. Thank you to Carol Miller and the AMT team for being so dedicated and mindful to our company and our needs.”
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“I highly recommend AMT and Thomas Enderby to assist on any operational improvement project. Our two projects were well-planned, well-facilitated and well-executed and both have achieved the intended results. I am excited for future projects!”
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“The goals we have reached as a small company would not have been possible without the help of AMT. We are lucky to have an organization like AMT to help small companies. Their staff are very knowledgeable and easy to work with. I always recommend AMT to any company I talk to that might need help.”
“We were able to successfully ship to the customer almost five times as many of these units in one month. This was a fantastic way to close out the year!”
“I would highly recommend working with AMTto any manufacturing operation looking to improve their productivity.”
“AMT has been very helpful to Cameron Manufacturing & Design on a wide variety of tasks. … They understand our business and can operate as an extended staff. As a result of their efforts, we feel that we have better control over the future.”
“AMT has been (and still is) a valuable asset in helping C&D Assembly to overcome some major growing pains. Having them available has helped us to stay on track, keep ISO certified and continually improve our overall business by winning new contracts and keeping existing ones. AMT has been a valuable resource in a variety of tasks over the last several years.”
“Through AMT’s efforts, Buckingham Manufacturing was able to develop and implement an effective ISO 9001 quality management system, which produced significant improvements in our product yields and provided access to increased numbers of customers both domestically and overseas.”
