Manufacturing Business
Diagnostic®
Our experts deliver clear, actionable solutions
that boost quality, speed, & profits
THE FIRST STEP
Uncover Hidden Efficiency
Gaps in Your Manufacturing
Operations
At VDS Consulting Group, we specialize in identifying and addressing inefficiencies within your manufacturing processes.
Our Manufacturing Business Diagnostic® offers a thorough analysis of your operations, providing actionable insights to enhance quality, increase
throughput, and reduce time to market, ultimately boosting your profitability.
FAST AND EFFICIENT
Why Choose VDS for Your Manufacturing Diagnostic?
At Value Driven Solutions, results, efficiency, and profitability are our core focus. We apply the same proven standards to your manufacturing operations that we use internally, delivering short-term impact and long-term value. Using our Value Driven Approach®, we help close performance gaps through enterprise value enhancement, inventory management, and process optimization.
We address key areas like safety, quality, delivery, and cost, knowing that just a few critical issues often drive over 80% of performance problems. Because people are your greatest asset, we also assess your culture, processes, and principles to help your team operate at its full potential

Expert Analysis
Our team of operational excellence experts applies the Value Driven Approach® to assess and improve your business processes.

Comprehensive Evaluation
We examine every facet of your operations, including safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

Human Capital Focus
Recognizing that your workforce is a vital asset, we evaluate your company’s culture, processes, and principles to maximize employee potential.
WHAT IS IN A DIAGNOSTIC?
Key Areas of Investigation
To drive meaningful improvement in manufacturing performance, it’s essential to begin with a clear, data-driven understanding of where the gaps lie. Our Manufacturing Business Diagnostic® offers a comprehensive, structured approach to uncovering inefficiencies, risks, and untapped potential across your entire operation.
This isn’t a surface-level review, it’s a deep dive into the core elements that determine productivity, profitability, and long-term resilience. By examining both strategic and operational dimensions, we provide you with actionable insights that lead to measurable results.
Our focus is on identifying the underlying issues that often go unnoticed but contribute significantly to missed targets, production delays, and quality concerns
Leadership
Assessing commitment to change, technical capabilities, culture, talent management, succession planning, and risk.
Lean Maturity
Analyzing 6S, workflow, work cells, pull systems, material presentation, line delivery, inbound logistics, supplier integration, and continuous improvement (CI) organization.
Sales & Operations
Examining production planning, scheduling, order-to-delivery processes, supplier integration, and risk of disruption.
Asset Condition
Evaluating Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), work order management, Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) processes, and facility conditions.
Management System
Reviewing tracking, measurement, workforce empowerment, visual management, problem-solving, and strategy deployment.
Quality
Inspecting management systems, specification management, and problem-solving documentation.
QUANTIFIABLE RESULTS
It's All in the Numbers
VDS clients typically see these results after applying the Value Driven Approach®
Improvement in
On-Time Delivery
Increase in
Inventory Turnover
Boost in
Productivity
Rise in
EBITDA
Reduction in The Cost
Of Poor Quality
Customer
Satisfaction
Increase in Market
Feedback
Space
Savings
THE FIRST STEP ON YOUR JOURNEY
Our Diagnostic Process
VDS builds aggressive, but feasible, implementation plans. We will create a 100% ownable project designed to help you achieve specific and strategic goals, such as significantly reducing costs, accelerating inventory turns, increasing productivity, improving profit or EBITDA, and driving growth.
VDS leads these initiatives, working side-by-side (in person or virtually) with your team at the point of impact. We work at the ground level with the people who operate your business every day to put solution frameworks into place, remove roadblocks, instill techniques, behaviors, and process rigor, and embed resources as needed to immediately start moving the needle on business performance and results.
TAKE THE FIRST STEP TOWARD OPERATIONAL EXCEL
Ready To Transform Your
Manufacturing Operations?
Embark on your journey to enhanced efficiency and profitability with our
Manufacturing Business Diagnostic®. Let VDS Consulting Group help you achieve
operational excellence through our Everything OpEx® approach.