Who we help · Manufacturing
Find the bottleneck capping your output
You're quoting work you can win, but the shop floor can't move it fast enough and margin leaks out between the PO and the dock. Mike finds the one constraint holding back your planning-to-delivery flow and installs the cadence to clear it.
Sound familiar?
The challenges we hear most in manufacturing
The schedule lives in someone's head
Jobs get sequenced by whoever shouts loudest, changeovers stack up, and machines sit idle waiting on the wrong work order. Nobody can see the real bottleneck because there's no honest view of capacity.
You quoted the job, then lost the margin
Estimates are built on gut feel and old standards, so scrap, rework and overtime quietly eat the profit. By the time the costing catches up, the job's already shipped.
Skilled people stuck firefighting
Your best operators and leads spend the day chasing parts, expediting late POs and reworking defects instead of running the floor. Growth stalls because everyone's flat-out just keeping today's orders moving.
Typical outcomes
What changes when manufacturing starts to flow
20-30%
more output from the same crew and machines
6-10 wks
to a working schedule and capacity view
4-8 pts
margin recovered on quoted work
Use case · Manufacturing
We stopped guessing at the schedule. Mike helped us see where the real bottleneck was, and within two months we were shipping more without adding a shift or a single machine.
Operations Owner
Metal fabrication shop, Fraser Valley · ~$14M
27%
more on-time deliveries
31%
less rework and scrap
5 pts
gross margin recovered
How VITO helps
The levers that move manufacturing
Scheduling & Capacity
Schedule for flow: fewer interruptions, fewer setups, more output from what you have.
Learn more →Planning & Supply Chain
Align demand, materials and capacity so the operation isn't always reacting.
Learn more →Lean & Continuous Improvement
Build a culture that finds and removes constraints, week after week.
Learn more →Pricing & Margin Recovery
Recover margin that's quietly leaking through pricing, rework and scope creep.
Learn more →KPI & Daily Management
Make performance visible with the numbers and daily rhythms that drive it.
Learn more →Design & Estimating
Turn enquiries into accurate, fast, winning quotes and proposals.
Learn more →Why VITO
Why VITO gets manufacturing
Mike treats your shop as one value stream from quote to dock, not a pile of departments fighting over the schedule. He finds the single constraint capping throughput and installs the ownership and daily cadence to clear it, so improvements show up on the floor in weeks, not after the next fiscal year.
- ✓Reads OEE, changeover and scrap data to pinpoint the true bottleneck
- ✓Builds an honest capacity-and-scheduling view your whole team trusts
- ✓Closes the loop from estimate to actual cost so quoted margin sticks
Ready when you are
Ready to unlock your value stream?
Start with a value-flow review and get a clear read on where growth is getting stuck, and what it takes to set it moving.