Management Operating Systems
MAGOS Consulting is a business consulting firm. We install the daily and weekly routines, meetings, owners and measures that run the work across operations, maintenance, inventory and cash, and your savings are tracked on the ledger and validated by your finance team.
$1M+
of tracked absorption savings in the first 28 weeks of a 39 week program, against an $848K plan.
Validated weekly by client finance
89 to 46
minutes to change a die at an automotive stamping plant, across 66 changeovers timed on the floor in a 7 week program.
As reported by the principal
140+
browser tools and reports built for clients, shipped with 50 plus user guides.
Built by our principals. The client keeps them
The system
It is the set of routines, meetings, owners and measures that run your business day to day and week to week. Six practices go in together, and the people you already employ run them.
01 Practice
Roles written as behaviors, Leader Standard Work, tiered meetings, an action register and a weekly review on plan, actual, variance and action.
Learn more about installing the operating system02 Practice
Model cells, changeover and setup reduction, line balance, and scheduling and adherence, worked on the floor where the loss happens.
Learn more about operations and throughput03 Practice
The CMMS made the system of record, a preventive program built from real completion history, and a downtime value model.
Learn more about maintenance and reliability04 Practice
The cash conversion cycle baselined and dollarized, a collections cadence, excess and obsolete burndown, and a 12 week cash flow forecast.
Learn more about inventory and working capital05 Practice
A weekly savings file your finance team validates against the baseline, with value reported in separate layers so nothing is counted twice.
Learn more about finance reporting and savings tracking06 Practice
Browser tools and dashboards built around your own exports. They run on your network, nothing is uploaded, and you keep them.
Learn more about ai built tooling for your own dataOn the ledger
When the system is installed, every shift knows the plan, every number has a name beside it, and every gap has an action with a due date. Savings are tracked weekly against a baseline, line by line of expense, and validated by your own finance people.
We report what finance signs, not what we modeled.
On site
No bench of juniors behind a partner who visits. We do not hand over a binder. We write the system with your managers, run it beside them, coach them through it, and leave when they can run it unaided.
Roles get written as behaviors rather than paragraphs, every manager gets a personal coach, and each workshop carries an assignment to be done on the floor that week. We do not count an element as installed until your managers run it without us in the room.
Build the System, from the people. Coach the people. Count the profit.
The current program
A heavy gauge thermoforming manufacturer, about $51M revenue, 13 forming cells. Nobody could say where the week’s work stood. Dispatch was worked by hand, handoffs between shifts were verbal only, and the preventive schedule lived in one technician’s calendar.
The operating rhythm went in first, then the tools the team runs itself, from a scheduling and adherence tool fed by the daily dispatch to a finance hub carrying a 12 week cash flow forecast.
Validated weekly by client finance
$1M+
Tracked absorption savings cumulative through week 28, against an $848K plan, checked weekly with the client’s finance team against baseline by expense line.
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.
Across the three principals
30+
years of cumulative consulting experience across three equal partners.
140+
browser tools and reports built for clients.
50+
user guides shipped with those tools.
95+
businesses across one principal’s consulting portfolio.
8
engagements shown in detail on this site, every figure labeled.
The range of our work
Our principals’ work runs from small job shops through divisions of large corporates. All eight case studies on this site are repeat run process businesses. If you run one off or job shop work, ask us and we will tell you plainly what we have done in that shape and what we have not.
Case studies
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.
Automotive stamping7 week program, 2024
As reported by the principal
Read the case study
Food manufacturing25 week engagement
As reported by the principal
Read the case study
Natural snack manufacturing3 week discovery, 2026
Identified, not yet banked
Read the case studyBefore you hire us
Question
You end with a findings brief that says what your numbers mean and what to do first, and it is yours whether or not we go further.
Read the answerQuestion
Your finance team. Savings are tracked weekly against an agreed baseline, line by line of expense, and your finance people validate the file.
Read the answerQuestion
We do not close on a hope. Your team runs the weekly review unaided before we go, and the tools, the guides and the standards stay with you.
Read the answerNext step
You do not have to be ready to buy anything. Ask the question you would ask a peer who had already done this, and one of the three of us will answer it.
