About
Engineering‑Grade Operational Excellence for Modern Industrial Teams
9 Yards Excellence is a specialized consulting practice focused on helping industrial, manufacturing, and asset‑intensive organizations achieve measurable, sustainable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
The practice blends nearly three decades of hands‑on industry experience with deep expertise in Lean, Six Sigma, Reliability Engineering, Data Analytics, and AI‑enabled problem solving.
Approach
Every engagement is grounded in a structured, engineering‑driven methodology:
- Deterministic, audit-safe problem solving
- Lean and Six Sigma discipline
- Reliability-centered thinking
- Data-driven insights and statistical rigor
- Practical solutions that scale across teams and sites
The focus is always on sustainable adoption, not one-off fixes
Core Capabilities
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Lean transformations across production, maintenance, quality, and supply chain
- Kaizen facilitation (PDCA), SMED, TPM, 5S/6S, Visual Management, Standard Work
- Value Stream Mapping, Daily Management (SQDC), Hoshin‑Kanri
- DMAIC, DFSS, and statistical problem solving
- Coaching and mentoring for Green Belts and Black Belts
Reliability & Asset Performance
- Failure history analysis, RCA, FTA, Weibull modeling, Crow‑AMSAA
- MTBF/MTTR analytics and bad‑actor identification
- Preventive and predictive maintenance optimization
- SAP PM expertise and CMMS data quality improvement
- Asset Performance Excellence assessments
Data Analytics & Engineering Insight
- Statistical analysis using Minitab, JMP, R
- Power BI dashboards and operational KPI systems
- PCA, DOE, Monte Carlo simulations
- KNIME workflows and data automation
- Engineering‑grade CAE: FEA, durability, NVH, CFD, optimization
AI‑Enabled Problem Solving
- Architecting AI‑powered RCA and maintenance intelligence systems
- Converting unstructured work‑order data into structured insights
- Machine learning, NLP, and Azure AI fundamentals
Experience Snapshot
With nearly 30 years of experience across global manufacturing, chemical, automotive, packaging, steel, defense, and industrial operations, the practice brings:
- Leadership of large‑scale operational excellence programs
- Global maintenance and reliability strategy development
- Standardization of maintenance practices across multi‑site networks
- Delivery of measurable improvements in uptime, throughput, and cost
- Hands‑on facilitation of Kaizen, VSM, and focused improvement events
- Engineering‑grade problem solving rooted in CAE and statistical rigor
Philosophy
Operational excellence is not a destination — it's a disciplined journey of continuous improvement.
- Kaizen as a mindset – small, incremental improvements that compound into lasting transformation
- Quality and Safety First -not just as metrics, but as non-negotiable foundations for sustainable performance
- Lean as a journey -a long-term commitment to clarity, structure, and team empowerment
Relentless waste elimination – identifying and removing barriers to flow, reliability, and value creation
We help organizations build this capability with clarity, rigor, and measurable impact — so that improvements are not just achieved, but sustained.
Let's Build What's Next
Whether the challenge is chronic equipment failures, variability in production, data quality issues, or the need for a structured improvement system, 9 Yards Excellence provides the engineering‑grade support to move from firefighting to predictable, high‑reliability performance.