Profit from Continuous Improvement

Since being established in 1976, we have developed an enviable track record of innovation and support, so much so that many of our earliest customers are still with us. We pioneered accurate component counting by weight and our electronic weighing systems have been exported to Japan, Brazil and Europe for more than thirty years.

We developed our first computing system in 1979 and were the first to apply statistical process control (SPC) techniques to quantity control systems, to comply with EU Average Quantity Law. We have now evolved into an in-house designer, developer and manufacturer of a uniquely comprehensive real-time information management system – the most developed and cost effective of its kind, available globally.

Having reviewed many Profit and Loss Accounts recently, we have found that an increasing number of companies have managed to turn in, during very difficult trading circumstances, admirable increases in annual turnover.  However, due to rising costs, the benefit of the increased turnover has been either minimised or completely eliminated in the pre-tax net profits.

This indicates that either the raw material costs are too high, the transformation costs from raw materials to finished goods is carrying too much ‘loss’, overheads have risen in line with turnover, but not in line with profit and/or selling prices are fixed by long term contracts or refusal from powerful supermarket customers to accept price increases.

In such circumstances, it is unlikely that manufacturers will gain much traction in reducing the cost of raw materials, nor in the reduction of salary costs, so therefore, it becomes obvious that manufacturers need to work harder and smarter to gain more finished packs for their raw materials, more packs per man hour produced and also fewer costly failures/batch rejections, etc.

This is the area in which Harford specialises, to help you achieve these objectives.