Manufacturing
$24m
capital investment avoided
Lean leadership across 14 plants
A common operating system across 14 plants helped a global automotive manufacturer improve overall equipment effectiveness by 31%.
Operational excellence & performance improvement
Improve operational performance.
Build capability that lasts.
We help manufacturing, rail and infrastructure organisations reduce costs, improve productivity and strengthen delivery—by developing people and improving processes.
The Project7 approach
People + Process = Performance
We develop your people and improve the way work gets done, connecting leadership, daily management and frontline teams to deliver better performance that lasts.
Results from real operational challenges
Explore published case studies across manufacturing, rail and infrastructure.
Rail & MRO
£10.4m
realised return from the improvement programme
Network Rail: capability that delivers
Four-step knowledge transfer combined Lean Academies with hands-on coaching: 260 managers completed the Academy and over 210 Lean workstreams were established.
Infrastructure
£5bn
approximate value of 20 delivery elements supported
Crossrail: programme control at scale
Visual performance management connected nine stations and 11 shafts and portals, aligning teams, decisions and critical milestones.
How we help
Where does performance need to change?
When delivery varies, improvement stalls or teams work to different priorities, we help you understand what is holding performance back and put practical improvements into daily work.
Improve operational delivery
Address the flow, reliability and daily management issues affecting performance.
Connect strategy with daily work
Bring priorities, measures, leadership routines and improvement together across teams and sites.
Strengthen leadership and ownership
Develop leaders and teams who can solve problems, improve together and sustain new ways of working.
People, process and performance, connected. A business operating system is how work gets done: the priorities, measures, meetings and responsibilities that connect strategy with daily delivery. We combine its design with implementation and coaching.
Our approach
From understanding the problem
to sustaining the change
Understand
Establish the operational challenge, baseline and priorities with your team.
Design
Agree the operating routines, responsibilities and measures needed to improve performance.
Implement
Work alongside leaders and teams to test and embed changes in daily operations.
Sustain
Develop capability and review performance so ownership remains with your people.
Sectors we serve
Experience that fits your operation
Practical improvement in demanding operational environments.
Manufacturing & operations
Improve flow, capacity, delivery and the consistency of performance across your operation.
Rail & MRO
Strengthen maintenance delivery, asset availability, operational control and team performance.
Infrastructure
Connect teams and leadership around reliable delivery in complex programmes.
What people say
Turning insight into operational value
“Thank you — this has been an outstanding piece of work. Not only did it unlock the savings we needed, but it also identified and began delivering significantly more value than we originally set out to achieve.”
Our people
Work with people who understand operations
Meet the practitioners behind our approach, with experience of Lean transformation, leadership development and practical operational improvement.
Build internal capability
Training that supports the work
Practical Lean, leadership and TPM training helps your people apply what they learn in daily operations and keep improving.
Explore programmes that connect learning with operational performance.
What needs to work better in your operation?
Tell us where performance is falling short and what you need to achieve. We can discuss the situation and the most useful next step.