About Us
Forward Vision is a manufacturing consulting company providing the highest calibre professional support and advice enabling manufacturing businesses to achieve truly internationally competitive performance.
The firm's unrivalled knowledge of manufacturing systems and improvement techniques has been gained at source within the Japanese manufacturing industry and through application of these techniques over the past 20 years to organisations in Britain, mainland Europe and North America.
We ensure the right match of individuals to meet the needs and challenges that each client faces. All of Forward Vision's consultants are hands-on practitioners from the world's finest manufacturing companies.
Whatever the situation, Forward Vision experts will have encountered similar in a diverse range of sectors and will be able to recommend and deliver a practical solution.
Overall we help our clients by:
- adding value to their commercial activities
- contributing to the continuing development of a viable and sustainable manufacturing economy
- enhancing the quality of their own working and personal lives and that of their employees
- saving more than we cost
- securing lasting results by developing and delivering strategies and systems.
We Believe
- the manufacturing sector is the most vital component of every developed nation's economy
- competition is healthy; it provides the stimulus for improvement
- any company, whatever it makes, wherever it is and whatever its history, can be a truly internationally competitive manufacturer
- everyone has a right to expect and a duty to deliver Continuous Improvement in their work and business. Better quality, higher productivity and waste elimination are the measures
- most people are hungry for improved performance and for the skills and training which will enable them to make an effective contribution to their organisation's success
- the personal needs of individuals and the commercial needs of business can be satisfied to mutual benefit
- work can be challenging without being threatening to the social, physical or psychological well-being of the worker
- the richest seam of improvement opportunity is the existing manufacturing process. Major improvements in productivity, cost effectiveness, capacity enhancement and quality and delivery performance are there for the taking without the need for capital investment. Process disciplines and real leadership in the workplace are they key.
- we can save more than we cost
- we can secure lasting results by developing and delivering strategies and systems.
About Us
We serve clients across the UK and mainland Europe. We have experience in every sector of manufacturing industry including: automotive, castings and fabrication, F.M.C.G.s, electronics, heavy engineering, aerospace, printing and paper, food and beverages.
Our team of full time consulting staff are experienced practitioners from among the world's finest companies. They understand both manufacturing and learning processes. They understand the challenges of modern competitive operations and have faced them themselves. Their hands-on experience spans the disciplines of: production management, engineering, quality assurance, logistics, HRD and training
What Makes Us Unique
- Our market is exclusively the manufacturing sector
- We combine training with doing
- We regard people and process issues: Organisational and Operational Concerns as synergistic
- We work with clients to achieve and sustain real business improvements
