Profit improvement
KBC was founded on the ‘PIP’ – the Profit Improvement Program. And the PIP remains as valid today as it did 30 years ago. Focused on maximizing revenues and minimizing costs, our PIP consultants identify sustainable opportunities for profit improvement that require no or minor capital investment.
Benefits
By applying rigor to our analysis through use of accurate and reliable process models, depending on plant size, a typical PIP from KBC can deliver measurable benefits of more than $100 million.
Energy savings or carbon reductions of 3-10% can be expected, and where energy systems are constraining process performance, 1-3% increases in throughput or yield can be achieved. Synergy between process and energy leads to benefits far greater than considering these two factors in isolation.
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Operational excellence
Operational Excellence is the systematic application of technology and capabilities to ensure superior results, sustained. We map required business competencies and your unique position within your market to our Operations Management System, an outcome of our unique OpX model.
Asset integrity
Our consultants identify and implement the most appropriate processes and technologies to balance the long-term integrity of assets against the need to push production to physical limits. Monitoring conformance and managing compliance ensure plants continuously run at optimum operating constraints.
Enterprise team effectiveness
We provide organizational change management and human performance improvement services focused on performance management, competency assessment and full-scale training system design and implementation.
Data governance
Our consultants recommend business processes and practices to ensure the quality and availability of real-time data so that it can be relied on by your staff and software applications for measuring operating performance, and intelligently associated with assets to assure performance improvement.
Value chain optimization
We combine our supply chain consulting expertise with industry leading technologies for asset-wide simulation, planning, scheduling and production accounting to deliver uniquely integrated and holistic value chain optimization solutions.
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