Case studies

Here is what changed inside each company, what it was worth, and how each figure was confirmed.

Client names are withheld. Each company appears by its industry, its size and the shape of the engagement, and every figure carries a label saying how it was confirmed.

All eight case studies

A rail of thirteen brass forming tools receding into the dark, the nearest dulled with rust and the furthest polished and lit from inside with teal, a small brass counter unrolling a strip of ledger paper at the end of the rail.

Plastics and thermoforming39 week program, 2026

Heavy gauge thermoforming manufacturer: $1M+ of tracked savings through week 28 against an $848K plan

144 to 96 days The cash conversion cycle, 48 days removed. The days between paying for material and collecting the money from the customer.
15K to 21K Units a week, up 37% on the forming cells the plant already owned, with the extruder excluded.

Operating system
Throughput
Maintenance
Working capital
Finance tracking
Tooling

Validated weekly by client finance

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Two heavy stamping dies on a low staging cart beside an open press, the removed die rust dusted and the staged replacement polished brass with teal lit guides, a large brass stopwatch in the foreground.

Automotive stamping7 week program, 2024

Automotive stamping plant: die changeover 89 to 46 minutes in a 7 week program

66 changeover observations timed on the floor, which is what the standard was built and corrected from.
300 plus feet of forklift travel taken out of every die move.

Throughput
Operating system

As reported by the principal

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A heavy brass magnifying loupe standing over an unrolled strip of pale ledger paper, the paper under the lens lit cold teal and three slim brass markers laid across the sheet.

Natural snack manufacturing3 week discovery, 2026

Natural snack manufacturer: $9M to $15M of cash availability identified in a 3 week discovery

$6M to $11M of EBITDA, the value of the 12 month operations agenda set out in the findings brief.
20 days Cycle improvement observed in the cash conversion cycle, the days between paying for materials and collecting from customers.

Working capital
Tooling

Identified, not yet banked

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A cutaway brass extrusion head on dark stone, its left half crusted rust orange and its right half polished, with a clean teal ribbon running through the centre into a fine teal mist.

Food manufacturing25 week engagement

Food manufacturer: $7M annualized savings run rate against nearly $4M guaranteed

170 to 142 hours Sanitation labor per cleaning cycle, a 17% reduction. The labor spent taking a line from the end of one run to the start of the next.
+27% Output in the first three hours of production, about 10K to 13K lbs.

Operating system
Throughput

As reported by the principal

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A brass gantry hung with fine nozzles standing over a dark floor, crowded with dull rust dusted wire baskets on the left and cleared on the right to a grid of teal lit lines.

Home textiles26 week engagement

Home textiles manufacturer: 166% of the savings target, labor cost per unit 107¢ to 95¢

107¢ to 95¢ Labor cost per unit, a 12% reduction, even after wage increases. Units per labor hour went 19 to 22.
24 fillers cover work that once required 36.

Throughput
Operating system

As reported by the principal

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Two tall brass refining columns joined by pipework to a screw press, the left column crusted with rust and the right lit from within by teal, a bright teal flow running between them.

Oilseed processing36 week engagement

Oilseed processing plant: $13M of savings through week 35 against a $3M plan

+38% / +20% Refinery throughput 25M to 34M lbs a week, crush 104M to 125M, on the same equipment.
33% / 23% Better than base on outside labor against a 15% goal, and on outside repair and maintenance against a 12% goal.

Operating system
Throughput
Maintenance

As reported by the principal

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A heavy brass furnace vessel tilted toward a tapping spout above a waiting ladle, its left flank scarred and rust orange and its right clean brass with a teal glow at the taphole, a neat rack of brass tools standing ready.

Steel and casting28 week engagement

Steel meltshop and caster: open work orders 350 to 178 in 2 weeks, taphole change 140 to 90 minutes

140 to 90 Minutes for a taphole change, 36% better.
42 to 37 hours To realign the furnace, 12% better, worth about $279K a year in production value.

Maintenance
Operating system

As reported by the principal

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A large brass balance scale, the left pan piled with dull rust dusted crates and the right holding a neat stack of polished brass discs lit from beneath with teal, a fine teal thread of beads running from the crates to the discs.

Industrial equipment40 week charter, 2026

Industrial equipment manufacturer: $18M of cash identified for release in the base case, sequenced over 18 months

$39M Cash identified for release in the stretch case, over the same period.
$2M+ The target leadership committed to for the first 40 weeks.

Working capital

Identified, not yet banked

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Also on the record

Results our principals carry from earlier engagements.

Headline figures only. We do not hold enough of the before state for these to be written up as case studies.

$37M

of annual value delivered.

A nuclear operator

$15M

delivered at 3X the guaranteed target.

A battery manufacturer

$11M

delivered with overtime down 70%.

An airline

81% to 97%

On time and in full delivery, with the expedite cycle 35% faster and about 20 hours of weekly manual reporting removed.

An agricultural processing plant, operations tooling program

How we report value

Three layers, kept apart because they are not the same money.

Tracked absorption savings. Weekly actuals measured against a baseline by expense line, validated by client finance.
Cash released one time. Working capital freed as the cash conversion cycle shortens and inventory comes down.
Recurring value of installed systems, modeled. The modeled annual worth of the routines and tools once they run.

The three are reported separately and never added into a single number. Labels say where a figure came from: validated weekly by client finance, as reported by the principal who ran the work, or identified and not yet banked. We will not tell you what your business will save before we have seen your numbers.

Validated weekly by client finance

As reported by the principal

Identified, not yet banked

Next step

If one of these companies sounds like yours, ask us what a discovery would look at in your numbers.

Two to three weeks on site, a findings brief at the end, and the brief is yours whether or not we go further.

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