ARKANSAS MANUFACTURERS · ON-SITE · FIXED FEE
The Manufacturing
Technology Efficiency Review
We map how information moves through your operation, identify where employee time is lost to manual work, and give you a prioritized plan for what to improve, automate, replace, or leave alone.
// WHY THIS EXISTS
The Waste Isn't On
The Production Floor
Most Arkansas plants have already squeezed production. Cycle times are tracked, scrap is watched, somebody has walked the line with a stopwatch.
Nobody has walked the paperwork. The same order typed into three places. A spreadsheet rebuilt every Monday because the system won't show what the scheduler needs. Quality records captured on paper, then keyed in at the end of the shift. It never reaches a production report, and it is paid for every week in salaried hours.
// WHO THIS IS FOR
You'll Recognize
At Least Two Of These
Private-sector Arkansas manufacturers, typically 20–150 employees, one facility.
- The same information gets entered more than once
An order, lot number, shipment or labor ticket that starts on paper and gets keyed in later. Sometimes into two systems.
- A critical spreadsheet lives on one person's machine
Scheduling, costing or inventory really runs on a workbook one employee maintains. Everyone knows it.
- You bought the system and still run on side systems
The ERP went in, the floor built workarounds around it. You pay for the software and for the labor of not using it.
- Answering a customer takes too long
A retailer or OEM asks where an order stands, or wants traceability on a lot, and somebody has to go find out.
- You've been pitched automation and can't judge it
Vendors have quoted barcoding, integrations, MES or AI. Nobody independent has told you which problem you actually have.
// THE ENGAGEMENT
Exactly What
You're Buying
Fixed scope. Nothing on this list is "depends" or "as needed."
Included In The Review
- Intake and permitted document review
Done before the visit, so the on-site hours go to observation rather than orientation.
- One on-site visit, three to four hours
At your facility, with the people who do the work. We observe. Nothing gets logged into or changed.
- Up to three workflows reviewed
You pick them at intake. Order to shipment, receiving to inventory, quote to job, quality records, month-end close.
- Current-state map and impact estimate
How information moves today, including the steps in nobody's process document, plus a sized and labeled estimate of the cost.
- Up to five prioritized findings
Five, not fifty. Each written to the standard below.
- Findings document and 60-minute meeting
Delivered within seven business days, then walked through with your team. Yours to keep.
// THE DECISION STANDARD
A Finding Is Only Useful If
You Can Decide With It
Every finding carries all eight of these, or it doesn't go in.
What we saw, stated plainly.
What it rests on: an observation, a count, a document, an interview.
The cost in hours, delay, rework or risk. Described, never guaranteed.
What we'd do — or why we'd leave it alone.
Fact, estimate and assumption labeled separately.
What it takes, and what has to be true first.
What could go wrong, including disturbing a line that runs fine.
Who decides, and the specific next step.
// HOW IT RUNS
Fit Call To Findings
Fit Call
We ask about your operation, the friction, and who would sponsor the work. At the end you get a straight yes or no. If it's no, we point you somewhere better.
Free · about 20 minutesWritten Proposal And Agreement
Scope, price, travel estimate and dates in writing before anything is committed.
Yours to reviewIntake And Scheduling
You name one sponsor and up to three workflows. We confirm the agenda, participants, safety requirements and what is off limits.
Before the visitThe On-Site Visit
Following the selected workflows and talking to the people who run them. We observe and map. No logging into, modifying or testing live systems.
3–4 hours, one dayFindings Delivered
Current-state map, impact estimate and up to five prioritized findings. Counted from the visit or from receipt of the last required information, whichever is later.
Within 7 business daysFindings Meeting
We walk your team through what we found, what we'd prioritize, and what we'd skip. Bring whoever makes the calls.
60 minutesYou Decide What Happens Next
Run with it yourself, have us scope an implementation, take limited advisory, or get referred elsewhere. "Stop and monitor" is a fifth option and sometimes the right one.
Your call// PRICE
One Number,
Agreed Before We Start
- Intake and permitted document review
- One on-site visit of three to four hours
- Up to three workflows mapped
- Current-state map and directional impact estimate
- Up to five prioritized findings
- Findings document plus a 60-minute findings meeting
Travel outside Northwest Arkansas is estimated and approved in writing before scheduling.
Additional on-site time is $150 per hour, two-hour minimum.
Founding rate for the first Arkansas manufacturers to run this review. It goes up once the engagement has a track record behind it.
The arithmetic worth doing first: one salaried person losing six hours a week to re-entry costs roughly ten thousand dollars a year. That is one person on one workflow. We won't promise a number before seeing your plant, but that is the comparison.
// HONEST BOUNDARIES
When This Is
The Wrong Purchase
Good Fit
- Private-sector Arkansas manufacturer, 20–150 employees
- One facility for the first engagement
- Visible manual entry, spreadsheet dependence or repeated handoffs
- Systems that don't talk to each other, or information that arrives late
- A sponsor with authority and access to the people doing the work
Not A Fit
- An emergency or break/fix need right now
- Formal cybersecurity, compliance or Industry 4.0 certification
- No operational sponsor, or no access to employees
- Multi-site enterprise transformation at this price
- Guaranteed savings, or a full implementation design included
// FAIR QUESTIONS
What Owners Ask
Will this disrupt production?
No. The visit is observation and conversation. We don't log into live systems, run scans, or change anything, and we work around your schedule and safety requirements.
Are you going to tell me to buy an ERP?
Rarely. Replacing a core system is the most expensive recommendation available and seldom the best return. "Fix how you're using what you already own" is a common finding.
Do you guarantee savings?
No. You get a directional estimate with its confidence level stated, and a clear separation between what we observed, estimated and assumed — so you can judge it yourself.
My people will think this is a headcount study.
We're mapping work, not evaluating people, and we say so directly to your team. This only works if operators speak freely, so we ask you to brief them in your own words beforehand.
Why only five findings?
A thirty-item list is a way of avoiding a decision. Five, each specific enough to act on, is worth more than an audit nobody opens twice.
What if we want you to implement the fixes?
If the work is inside what we can deliver, we scope it separately with its own price and dates. If not, we say so and help you find the right shop. The review's value doesn't depend on it.
How far into Arkansas do you travel?
Northwest Arkansas carries no travel charge. Beyond that — the River Valley, Fort Smith, Central Arkansas — travel is estimated and approved in writing before scheduling.
What do you need before the visit?
A signed agreement, payment and approved travel estimate, a completed intake naming one sponsor and up to three workflows, and confirmed facility access and safety requirements.
// START HERE
Book A Free
Fit Call
Twenty minutes to find out whether this review would tell you anything you don't already know.