Aquidata Excel: Lean & Business Improvement

The Viable Ventures Team have recently begun work in provide Lean and Business Improvement initiatives to Aquidata Excel, a prominent industrial information technology organisation highly respected within Aberdeen's booming Oil & Gas sector.

The work undertaken for Aquidata will be multifaceted and challenging. Viable Ventures personnel will initiate and, where requested, help implement the following:

• Standardise data collection procedures to reduce waste and free up operator time.
• Free up essential management time to address the business process restructuring project (Project Open).
• Implementation of process change and process mapping to eliminate rework and reduce downtime.

The initial 6-month contract will be from January to June 2008 during which time plans to implement Phase 2 will be discussed, leading to a further 6-12 month contract set to begin in the Spring of 2009.