About

• Introduction
• Matthew Hunter
• Jane Millar
• Peter Curren
• Claudia Coory
• Paul Turner
• Philip Crisp
• Jim Blenkinsop
• Jim Hick
• Nick Martin
• Barbara Glacel

Jim Blenkinsop

James.blenkinsop@sky.com

Jim is an engineer with over 20 years at senior level in automotive and aerospace manufacturing. In 1994, after key roles in the Dowty Group and Reynard Racing he joined Productivity Europe where he gained a wide experience of delivering valuable business benefits through the implementation of Lean manufacturing improvement tools and techniques.

Over the last 10 years he has developed a collaborative and participative style that helps make his interventions both effective and sustainable. At senior level his careful listening and understanding of the business needs and ability to facilitate consensus, commitment and supportive leadership ensures robust ‘plans for change’ and management behaviours that encourage a CI culture. At the operations level his thorough understanding of Lean and CI combined with carefully designed workplace activities ensure real positive engagement with teams and supervisors.

UK clients include Rolls-Royce Aerospace, Ford, Crown Aerosols, PALL, Perkin Elmer, Northern Foods, Nestlé, Campbells, Jacobs, Hawker Energy. He also works extensively in Italy with Videocon, C S Gomma & Richard Ginori.

Most recently he has developed a powerful Lean Assessment tool based on Kobayashi’s 20 Keys for an Italian automotive manufacturer. This is helping benchmark performance and plan a group-wide CI programme.

Jim has worked with Philip and Matthew on many large culture change and CI programmes.

Recent achievements include:

• Used a full range of lean tools so that Reynard Racing Cars could design, develop and manufacture F3000 & Indy Cars in 4 months (from last race to the first race of the new season).
• Developed and delivered bespoke ‘TPM for teams’ training and consultancy to a major canned food manufacture that resulted in a 20% increase in line efficiency (OEE).
• Designed and managed the implementation of 6 lean manufacturing cells (from a traditional process layout) in a opto-electronics company reducing lead-time from 4 weeks to 4 days.
• Designed and delivered a company wide teamworking programme for a prestigious picture framer. Also developed & implemented systems for their annual appraisal and performance payment.
• Delivered a lean programme in a tier 1 supplier to Caterpillar improving OTIF from 85% to 98% with stock down by 50%.
• Developed 5S for Offices, an interactive programme to help support staff benefit from improved workplace organisation.
• Transformed an unengaged and very traditional workforce in a building product factory into more motivated and effective teams through.
• Used the ‘5-day Kaizen Breakthrough’ to transform a TV assembly line to small ‘U-Cells’ with productivity doubled and build quality close to ‘perfect’.

Over the last 10 years Jim has successfully completed more than 50 programmes with manufacturing companies across the UK.