🇫🇷 Operational Excellence · Hauts-de-France

Operational excellence in Hauts-de-France.

Looking to gain OEE points, make your lines more reliable and cut the cost of poor performance? Kaizen, TPM, visual management: we deploy operational excellence across industrial sites in every sector of the Hauts-de-France — food processing, automotive, textiles, logistics or any other industry.

Significant, measured OEE gains Kaizen, TPM, visual management, KPI-based steering Hauts-de-France regional and Bpifrance support included
24h
Response time
30 min
First call free of charge
90 j
First measured gains
25 years
Of industrial expertise
Introduction

What operational excellence can bring to your site.

Do your lines stop too often, do format changeovers eat into capacity, do quality failure costs erode your margin? Operational excellence tackles these symptoms at the root: TPM reliability work on equipment, Kaizen workshops on bottlenecks, daily steering routines that surface problems before they become costly. And it adapts to your sector: in food processing (the region's leading industry), the number one opportunity is the OEE of packaging lines; in automotive, PPM and the reliability of just-in-time flows; in textiles and logistics, the productivity of operations. A concrete example: a food processing site in the Somme significantly improved its OEE — TPM on packaging plus daily routines.

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Your equipment made reliable

TPM tackles unplanned downtime — the single biggest opportunity at most sites: significant OEE gains on critical equipment.

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Your bottlenecks unlocked

A five-day Kaizen workshop solves a specific problem with your teams: format changeovers, micro-stoppages, recurring quality failures.

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Your steering transformed

Visual management and short routines: deviations are visible the same day and actions follow — no more end-of-month surprises.

Where we operate

We operate across the whole region Hauts-de-France.

Wherever your site is, it is covered — assignments organised in blocks of days with a regular on-site presence.

Lille metropolitan area
Technical textiles, food processing, logistics — see our Industry 4.0 Lille page
Valenciennes / Douai
Automotive, subcontracting, rail
Dunkirk & the coast
Steelmaking, port, energy — see our Supply Chain Dunkirk page
Amiens & the Somme
Mechanical engineering, food processing — see our Lean Amiens page
Arras / Béthune / Lens
Food processing, plastics, logistics
Saint-Quentin / Compiègne
Chemicals, mechanical engineering, agri-industry
What sets us apart

Why SXE Consulting in the Hauts-de-France?

What makes the difference to your initiative: a hands-on method, contractually agreed results, and regional funding put to work.

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Deliberately multi-sector

Food processing, automotive, steelmaking, textiles, logistics: the tool adapts to your process, never the other way round. Our consultants come from the factory floor.

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Regional funding built in

Hauts-de-France and Bpifrance schemes: we prepare the applications with you to lower the entry cost of your initiative.

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Contractual results

Significant gains on OEE and the cost of poor performance: your KPIs are defined before we start and measured monthly.

References

They placed their trust in us.

Process

How does does it work?

4 simple steps, from first contact to measured results.

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First conversation

30 minutes on the phone to understand your context and your challenges. Free of charge.

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On-site audit

2 to 5 days at your site: observation, measurements, team interviews.

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Costed action plan

Prioritised levers, gains estimated in €, contractually committed KPIs.

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Deployment & results

Improvement projects with your teams, monthly measurement, transfer of skills.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

What results can I expect at my site?+
Orders of magnitude measured at comparable sites: significant OEE gains, reduced cost of poor performance, sharply shorter format changeovers. Your assignment is contracted against its own KPIs, defined during the audit.
My site is in food processing — where should I start?+
Almost always with the OEE of packaging lines: that is the number one opportunity in food processing. TPM on unplanned downtime, SMED on format changeovers, daily routines. The gains show within the first few weeks.
We are automotive subcontractors — can you prepare us for customer audits?+
Yes: PPM reduction, more reliable just-in-time flows, visual management aligned with customer expectations. The Valenciennes-Douai area is a regular field of work for us.
What funding can I draw on in the Hauts-de-France?+
The Region and Bpifrance offer schemes supporting industrial performance (assessments, consulting grants). We identify those that apply to your case during scoping and prepare the applications with you.
How does the programme start?+
A 30-minute call (free of charge), then a two- to five-day on-site audit: measurements, observation, interviews. A quantified report with a prioritised action plan — you then decide, with no commitment.
Next step

Win your next OEE points in the Hauts-de-France.

A first 30-minute call to identify the levers at your site — OEE, quality failures, bottlenecks.

📞 Response within 24 hours 🔒 No commitment 🇫🇷 Assignments in the Hauts-de-France