As an owner of a truss manufacturing operation, I know it can sometimes be difficult to get an honest assessment of how your operation is doing. I am not new to this industry-I have been doing this for 18+ years-yet I thought there was room for improvements in the tight competitive market my company is part of. So I hired Todd to do just that and I was very pleased.
He touched on every area of the business and was always relating it to lean practices. I have sometimes found that lean principles were good in theory but hard to put into practice. Well, Todd was able to do just that by making it very specific for all areas with a common-sense approach. My manufacturing operation is now producing at a higher rate with a lower cost of labor using these principles. He showed us that just because we were keeping busy did not mean we were being as productive as we should have been. All of his suggestions for manufacturing were real eye-openers that helped us keep the big picture in mind. Now, we can produce more with less effort.
Pricing and costing were an important aspect of his services that helped us improve our bottom line. He has a list of many different types of labor estimations that you can simply plug into your truss engineering software to calculate a very reasonable labor time and cost for each truss. This labor time can be used for gauging your shop’s labor time efficiencies as well as scheduling. (I will never use board footage again.) This same labor time estimation is great for establishing the proper margin rate instead of the commonly used cost markup. I have great confidence when I price any of my projects in relation to how it will add to the bottom line.
If you want an honest assessment with plenty of common-sense suggestions for improving your operation’s bottom line, I highly recommend Todd’s services.
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