CASE STUDY
A Machine Builder
Case Studies & InterviewsSep 2026
“I am sinking.” Shop-floor teaching cut supply chain lead times 84–92%, build times 66%, throughput 92% — and made the company profitable within months.
I take on full implementation of the Lean Manufacturing System / Lean Management System, strategising and assisting in Turnaround, re-engineering business processes, technology integration where required, CEO and Board advisory, Conferences and Seminars etc.. Training happens within a program. There are about a hundred tools and techniques in the Just in Time basket of Toyota, we will teach and assist you integrate appropriate ones that will help solve problems and add customer value.
Ground-up Total Lean Enterprise transformation — examples such as the work behind Mysore Kirloskar and Bridgeport Perkasa, and others.
Converting a traditionally-run operation — batch production, push production, stored inventory — to flow, pull, and value-stream thinking.
Loss-making, closure-facing, or stalled operations, turned operationally profitable.
Rebuilding the operating system across an enterprise or a multi-entity cluster.
Direct partnership with the CEO or MD leading the transformation.
Board-level involvement where lean judgment is needed at the governance level.
Conferences, seminars, and interviews on Lean leadership and transformation.
and many more since 1990
Sanjeev, I read the case and was extremely impressed. It certainly followed all the principles that I talk about. Your vision and faith in the process, when you had not experienced it before, and leadership through very difficult times is admirable. Taking such dramatic steps into the unknown, when the viability of the company was at stake, and getting your people on board at each step, was also remarkable. It is one of the top stories of total lean enterprise transformation from sales to product development to manufacturing, to delivery that I know of.
JEFFERY LIKER — author of The Toyota Way Sanjeev, I was finally able to read your case study. An impressive story! Very different from the couple of Plants I was able to see during the course of my visit.MICHAEL BREMER — Executive Director, Chicagoland Lean Enterprise Consortium
These are the situations I'm usually called into. None of them is solved by a training course or a toolkit — they're solved by changing how the work flows, from the top down.
“I am sinking.” Shop-floor teaching cut supply chain lead times 84–92%, build times 66%, throughput 92% — and made the company profitable within months.
The plant looked more like a warehouse than a factory. It came down to three days of raw material inventory — and revenue went up.
Five years old and never once profitable. A lean operating system built from the floor up made it operationally profitable in the eighth month.
Bangalore, India and Portland, OR, USA — open to America, India, Asia, and Europe.