Clarity Manufacturing Consulting

With an MS degree and PhD education from Illinois Institute of Technology and Notre Dame respectively, Rahul Sarkar has spent 30+ years working passionately to serve hundreds of small manufacturing companies worldwide. His expert guidance has helped them win more bids, increase revenue, and achieve operational improvements leading to greater profitability. A typical small manufacturing company has numerous challenges in attaining the revenue that supports its operations while staying profitable over the long term. Data shows that most manufacturing companies fail within 25 years of their inception. The smaller manufacturing companies fail sooner. You may have employees fighting “fires,” fighting problems, jumping through hoops to fulfill orders, chasing suppliers and shipments; figuring out substitutions; working on expediting, and placating angry customers who are unhappy for a million reasons. To some extent or another, most small manufacturing companies have these problems. Barring bias and tunnel vision, given sufficient time to analyze and explore these problems, you and your team are ideally best suited to solve most issues afflicting your organization. What you need is additional time. Since that is not something you have an abundance of, you look for outside help. You join trade associations and have your people attend workshops, seminars, and scourge through the literature to learn about the latest and most extraordinary developments working wonders at Company XYZ. Consultants offer you personalized and customized advice. Claims of miracle solutions flood your inbox. You are a maker. You tend to gravitate to Service-as-a-Product solutions representing something definite. For example, a Supply Chain Management platform that “solves” all your supply chain woes, Quality Management platforms that “fix” all your quality problems, Lean Manufacturing packages to “eliminate” all your waste, ERP systems that will make your operations “flow,” business process