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OPENING UP A NEW WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITIES WITH VALUE-DRIVEN WORKFLOWS, PERFORMANCE ACCELATION, & SUSTAINABLE OUTCOMES
OPENING UP A NEW WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITIES WITH VALUE-DRIVEN WORKFLOWS, PERFORMANCE ACCELATION, & SUSTAINABLE OUTCOMES
The CONFACS Group in its first 10 years focused on consulting to manufacturing & assembly operations. The next 10 years CONFACS included distribution and warehouse centers. These last 20 years CONFACS resources continued their engineering, planning, design, and purpose built customer programs throughout North America.
Neil Glenney has over twelve years of industry job experience working in various professional industrial engineering practices, operations management, and automated systems and controls. He has focused on planning, design engineering, ergonomics, material movement automation, and facility layout design related to manufacturing, warehousing/fulfillment, and supply chain logistics. His extensive engineering career profile included ten years as an industrial/managing engineer at a major Tier-One automotive supplier. During these years, Neil worked in production facilities located in Philadelphia, Detroit, and Gary, Indiana. After relocating to Arizona, Neil worked as a corporate-based automation facility planning engineer for two and a half years, managing three primary manufacturing and distribution operations with a Fortune 100 international electronics manufacturer. Leaving the internal corporate world, Neil went to market, starting his professional industrial services practice as the founder and solopreneur operator - completing more than two- hundred and fifty client projects over more than four decades delivering engineering and management servicers in a wide variety of industry segments and scale of operations. Neil's solo-owner solutions-based driven business has conducted client programs throughout North America and Europe.
The CONFACS Group, Inc., currently a home-based business in Phoenix, Arizona, helps businesses drive down operating costs and boost manufacturing, distribution, and warehousing service levels. This independent professional operation will always focus on results that matter for achieving streamlined product workflows, planning materials automation/control systems, and simplifying intralogistics operations.
Neil has twice been the 1st Place Award Winner of the Chicago McCormick Place International ProMat Supply Chain Show Design Competition. He has been a frequent speaker at the ProMat International
Conferences. He is a Material Handling Institute’s Supply Chain Solutions Consultants Group member. Neil was elected to a two-year term with the College Industrial Council on Material Handling Education (CIC-MHE) to work with professors at leading engineering universities and colleges for two years.
Neil has frequently been a guest speaker at numerous international, national, and regional conferences with IEEE, APICS, SME, MHE, NCOF, NEPCON, and AMS. Neil has conducted workshop sessions on workflow automation implementation for eight years at the NEPCON West Show in Anaheim, CA.
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CONFACS consulting experience includes assignments throughout North America and Europe. The consulting assignments have included facilitating efficient process performance and engineering/design programs for companies as Allied/Bendix Brakes, Andersen Window MFG, Arrow Electronics, Asahi Glass/Saturn Car Assy Glass, Baker Hughes Company (A GE Company), Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, Becton Dickinson (BD), Boeing Aircraft, Columbia Sportswear Fulfillment, Coopervision, Dell Computer, Denver Mint, Dial MFG./US & China, Duty Free Shoppers (Hawaii Store/Airport Fulfillment), Durakon Industries, Ericsson/Sony Cellular Phone, Exel Logistics Assembly/Fulfillment, Ford Motor Truck Assembly, General Electric, General Instruments, Halliburton MFG, Herman Miller, Hewlett Packard Printer Mfg., Hughes Aircraft, IBM Industrial Copier MFG., Johnson & Johnson - Dental, Johnson Controls- MFG Auto Assy Seats, Lord & Taylor/NY, MARS Electronics MFG.US/UK, Motorola Semi, Motorola Iridium, Nike Team Sports, O'Reilly Auto, Philips Electronics of Canada, PING Golf MFG, Phoenix Police Property Storage Facility, Quiksilver, Ryobi Outdoor Products, Symbol Technologies, Scotts MiracleGro (Hawthorne Garden Division), TRW Airbag MFG/Assy, Vistar/PFG, Wacker Silicones, Warner Lambert, Western Digital Technologies - US & Mexico MFG/Assembly is a sample of CONFACS 250+ client engineering, design and development programs for contracted projects completed and managed for purpose built installations.
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CONFACS brings to every project their focused and dedicated teams ready to tackle the most challenging client request for delivering innovative and simplified value connected intralogistics solution outcomes that matter. For over more than four decades CONFACS has been vetted for their continuous engineering success by 100's of various industry sector leading clients.
(Please Note: at CONFACS we are quite proud of our client listing of successfully completed client projects - with 80% of all programs requesting additional follow-on project work assignments with several contracts extended over decades).
These programs required CONFACS Group to conduct 1000's of senior management, technical, systems specialist, shop floor supervisors, and key operator personnel interviews while actively working these diverse project engagements. The CONFACS Team continuously has successfully formed trusting partnerships in the transforming challenges of Small Medium Business Enterprises - as well as Fortune 1000, 500, 100 size companies that had contracted with CONFACS to help transform their operations to excel in delivering measurable and sustainable intralogistics continuous improvement.
CONFACS brings their reputation for delivering dedicated can-do work ethics to each and every organization for quickly delivering a competitive advantage by executing timely, scalable and proactive strategic results with clarity of purpose. Performing with a passion, when solving today's most important business challenges for today and the years to come, has allowed the CONFACS Team to win contracts over 1000's of competing professional firms.
CONFACS performance acceleration methodologies provide value driven outcomes for putting well thought-out 'Simplified SMART Plans' into action - while aligning agile integrated objectives for a profitable business operations tomorrow.
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CONFACS has always maintained a key goal to quickly identify our client's main uncertainty challenges when working to eliminate intralogistics workplace complexities - because simplified processes deliver significant savings in their day-to-day operational performance. ROI savings that are driven by cost effective connected technologies, innovative ideas for delivering timely fast results, and a flexible design for sustainable safe environment, will be thoroughly documented.
The CONFACS Team has experience working in many different industry sectors... both SMB's as well as large Fortune 1000 companies. We know our stuff - engineering, design, connected controls and integrated systems, project management, AutoCAD, installation and ready to support your in-house team .
The CONFACS Team will approach every project with the goal to simplify specific areas within your intralogistics facility requiring workplace improvements - because working to reduce touches allows you to do more with less and resolve the complexities of material storage and workflow for operational efficiencies.
If you decided introducing new digital transformation technologies may not be one of your business core competencies - Check out our full client list - transformation of intralogistics operations has been ours working several 100 contracts over 4 + decades... Give Neil Glenney a call 602.300.8006 to discuss!
CONFACS has the resolve meeting the challenges of complex material movement in manufacturing, warehouse/fulfillment, distribution, and retail operations by tapping into our extensive project database while utilizing our proven experience and knowledge creating innovative simplified solutions for you. We listen to your current issues to resolve your challenges that matter.
The CONFACS Team will undertake our 7 Step SOLVEIT Process to quickly evaluate and optimize intralogistics operations to ensure system flexibility utilizing modular components - because integration system performance must be efficient as well as effective today and sustainable tomorrow for a maintaining your intralogistics cost-effective competitive advantage.
Taking a 'Bird's Eye View' when observing this workplace visual helps illustrate the many processes that will be taken into consideration when changes are required within the 4 walls to streamline intralogistics. CONFACS begins every new program with four design connection factors:
People
Process
Place
Technology
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Eliminate Complexity - Many of the challenges associated with production intralogistics involve material movement. While part of the solution to this challenge may be automation, many issues can be addressed simply through simplifying workflows that provide intelligent control of components moving from secured storage areas, to quality driven production operations, to final pack-out, to labeling, and final shipping operations
Eliminate Complexity - Overall, intralogistics is a simple concept, but every DC and warehouse operation needs to strategize carefully to find inefficiencies and promote better communication and connectivity. Intralogistics requires appropriate equipment - you never want to automate the mess!
Of course, human workers will always be the most important component of a well-run intralogistics operation, and the goal isn’t to replace personnel. Instead, intralogistics allows workers to work as efficiently as possible by removing unnecessary hurdles. Workplace safety and human efficiency go hand-in-hand - a well planned system following the proven SOLVEIT Methodology has numerous tangible benefits for every intralogistics operation today, tomorrow, and in the future years of changes ahead.
It’s no secret that material handling in DC's, warehouses, production areas, and shipping operations has become increasingly difficult in recent years. What strategies will give you the most efficient results when moving goods is a common question we hear most often. With so many options available to improve your intralogistics functions with the 4 walls of your facility, you need an experienced advisor partner who can help you navigate these options in a timely manner. Give CONFACS a Call!
Your starting point for discovering opportunities executing intralogistics best practices. Our program initiated with customized deliverables for taking action now. These suggested task, based on a time-tested and proven methodology for investigation, will be your Source for project plans, designs and development in delivering your sustainable future.
CONFACS Your SMART Source solving the key operational issues for what matters. Utilize our proven 'Quick-Study' for intralogistics innovative improvements:
Making change happen in times of significant disruption within your supply chain operations requires confidence when developing and building a roadmap for providing a new way to move your business forward. CONFACS brings a focus on new tools, skills and knowledge when advancing your capabilities meeting intralogistics demands for sustainability.
Phase I - Planning Kickoff Interviews Undertaking 7 Task CONFACS Program:
Deep-dive questions related to the AS-IS current operations and documented for upcoming design & developing steps for presenting innovative conceptual ideas and options. Waste in operations will be identified for removal in order to prepare TO-BE Performance alternatives for future process improvements and documenting long-term strategic planning goals.
CONFACS Conducts Analytics of What Exist Today For Measuring Improvement Success Tomorrow & Key Management Questions:
CONFACS has maintained an extensive database of project success factors, that have been continuously updated with the latest references, ready to provide quick access for intralogistics and business transitional advances in the 4 key categories of people, processes, place (facilities) and technologies for integrated connection possibilities when developing objective future operational improvement scenarios. These factors are utilized developing future broad big-picture process possibilities.
The many factors considered for an intralogistics transformation consider the 'big picture' when developing interconnected advantages for planning:
Planning for change especially important in a time of multiple disruptions that intralogistics operations are currently experiencing. Key to the challenges for design and developing your SMART solutions is uncovering factors that assist in your planning team productivity with fast connected results. A key factor that will be evaluated, in services supporting future disruptions, is the value working with localizes suppliers building resilience to changes in your supply chain. Flexibility is key to remaining relevant.
When challenges are presented to intralogistics operations a common response is to take fast action for solving inventory or workflow issues in isolation. CONFACS project success proves out it is best to undertake all programs working with a holistic view goal for delivering an interconnected and simplified integrated planning solutions utilizing predictive analytics to build your roadmap.
CONFACS projects are organized and managed from the start of every program by initiating a documented plan for setting timely objectives and referencing key factors quickly that will influence the connections for bringing about emergent value for work environments. Intralogistics scenarios can model wall-to-wall & receiving doors-to-shipping doors operational options.
Today intralogistics are increasingly becoming connected with technologies - including building resiliency & flexibility for developing multiple potential future possibilities for breakthroughs:
Phase II - Scenario Planning:
Developing CONFACS Scenario Models is not to make predictions... but to discern the possible states where intralogistics might be both plausible & significant to instill agility, adaptability, and resilience preparing for taking action on future planning strategies. The key role of CONFACS Scenarios is to arrange the Factors so they illuminate the integration possibilities, instead of obscuring them.
Developing scenarios requires imagination and discipline, combined with experience and knowledge, to identify and apply factors that surface the uncertainties of intralogistics operations. CONFACS scenarios assist your planning team instilling a deeper appreciation for a myriad of transformational factors in shaping the interconnected scenario planning process leading to current and future innovative options that matter.
CONFACS has identified six key elements for developing To-Be planning strategies:
Phase III Engineering & Design:
CONFACS brings all project team stakeholders working together utilizing simulation-driven analysis decision tools to facilitate design foresight sessions. The design process will explore opportunities setting intralogistics priorities when developing accurate data analysis with fact-based models.
The primary intralogistics goals will support your business for delivering competitiveness utilizing creative designs. SMART design plans will be modular, flexible, scalable, connected and sustainable. TO-BE Designs must be simple, dramatic and bold to cut through workplace complexity aiming directly at the heart of best design principles.
Forward thinking with agile IIoT connected digitalization insights - delivering transformative productive results with intralogistics infrastructure innovative designs. CONFACS utilizes AutoCAD/Simulations for developing and presenting scalable transitions, when expanding thinking around decisions that involve complex future choices.
Approval of strategic plans for intralogistics workplace transition must meet the business guidelines for payback in selection of connected operational best practices. This step now requires project management team members bringing together all cost components while calculating one-time implementation and recurring annual operating cost. NOTE: Often times in our project cost analysis we highlight to clients they may not really afford the money they think they are saving not investing in new processes.
CONFACS documents typical saving opportunities with transition plans:
Yesterday things changed, today things change, and tomorrow things continue to change. These changes will impact intralogistics operations that must be resilient to respond to these inevitable changes. Approving your well thought-out strategic digital transformation plan investment, creating new profitable opportunities that matter, and set up your business for continuous success.