The ever-evolving manufacturing space oftentimes requires a strong information foundation in order to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This need can greatly be achieved by streamlining business processes and through the prudent infusion of technology. As the manufacturing environment is growing complex, organizations are finding themselves saddled with the non-core activities that prevent them from aligning with the business objectives such as product innovation and speed-to-market in line with market demands and pressures. Having built with experienced consultants, Barry-Wehmiller International helps its manufacturing clients to effectively manage their enterprise business processes. “Based on the clients’ requirements, we offer consulting services that performs an assessment of the users existing manufacturing process, to identify the areas for process optimization and improvement,” explains William Fricks, Managing Partner, Barry-Wehmiller International.

The firm delivers a full-suite manufacturing and technology consultancy services with extensive experience in various manufacturing industries. “With our consulting approach, we create successful business strategies and implement solutions focusing on operations, organizational change, technology and business processes, leading to significant cost savings and competitive advantages for our clients,” notes Fricks. “Our consulting services perform an assessment of our client’s existing manufacturing process, to identify and fulfill their process optimization and improvement requirement,” says Fricks. Backed by Six Sigma and LEAN expertise, the consultants provide their clients with state-of-the-art solutions that improve productivity. The firm also identifies and reviews the existing product design and suggests necessary changes to make manufacturing and assembly process much effective.

Having over two decade experience in consulting, Barry-Wehmiller International enables its engineering clients in areas such as product engineering, process engineering, manufacturing process engineering, embedded systems, controls and industrial automation solutions. With over 300 engineers deployed globally the firm can assist its customers across lean manufacturing, project management, process re-engineering, shop floor scanning, paperless document management, and many more.

Our consulting services perform an assessment of our client’s existing manufacturing process, to identify and fulfill their process optimization and improvement requirement.

Working with Barry-Wehmiller International, customers can drastically increase the efficiency of their project implementation and minimize the deployment time, while reducing the risks associated with the newly built enterprise systems.

The company practices two levels of implementation services to meet client’s specific requirement: the Collaborative Implementation Model and the Client Driven Implementation Model. The Collaborative Implementation Model is a traditional implementation structure, with which Barry-Wehmiller International serves both Project Manager and Consultant from the starting to the end of a project. “Leveraging our proven expertise, our manufacturing clients could drastically increase the efficiency of their project implementation; lessen their time to deployment, minimize the risks that are often associated with newly developed enterprise systems,” explains Fricks. However, the Client Driven Implementation Model helps the tech savvy clients. With this model the firm’s consulting expert delivers ‘on-demand’ consulting services that help manufacturers with the ability to set the pace for their own implementation, and reduce costs by allocating internal resources as and when required.

In addition, the firm also offers a wide range of education and training services like formal classroom training, one-on-one, “train the trainer”, and web-based training. “Our consultants continuously train and educate the clients and help them use the software to the fullest and get the most out of their systems,” says Fricks.

The firm is working on the vision to become a full-service provider for mid-market manufacturing companies. Barry-Wehmiller International’s purpose is to empower manufacturers by offering ‘Total Solutions’ to address their most pressing business challenges. ‘Total Solutions’ to us means bundling services and industry best practices with the world’s leading software products for mid-market manufacturers,” says Fricks. “We accomplish this through inspired people delivering global engineering, enterprise and product life cycle management solutions.”