Crisis Support
With 24/7 rapid-response capabilities, our Managed Response Teams (MRT) can deploy quickly when supplier or production issues put operations at risk, helping stabilize conditions and protect production.
Where do you need advisory support most?
Stronger Operations Start with the Right Expertise
A missed launch. A struggling supplier. Rising scrap. A process that never quite performs the way it should. These are often signals of something deeper. MS Companies brings experienced manufacturing advisors into the operation to find what is getting in the way, focus the right resources, and help turn persistent challenges into stronger performance.
OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
Strengthen operational performance with the right expertise
Put experienced manufacturing people into the roles where the operation is losing ground.
- Chronic Supplier/Part Management
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Operations Leadership
- Production Supervision
- Production Scheduling/Material Planning
- Turnarounds
COST OPTIMIZATION
Stop defects before they reach your customer.
Find where the cost is being created, then take the waste out of the process instead of working around it.
- Automation/Line Balancing
- Kaizen/Lean Workshop Facilitation
- Fresh Eyes Process Reviews
- Cost of Quality Improvements
- IATF 16949 Certification Readiness Assessment
STRATEGIC ASSESSMENTS
Identify risk and build readiness for what’s next
We provide comprehensive evaluations across various facets of manufacturing operations to identify and mitigate potential risks.
- Project Management
- APQP/PPAP Readiness
- Launch Ramp Up/Industrialization
- Manufacturing Capability
- Labor/Leadership
- Sub-supplier Readiness
TECHNICAL PROBLEM SOLVING
Turn complex manufacturing challenges into sustainable solutions
Get to the actual cause of the defect, fix the process, and make the fix hold.
- Tooling/Process/Equipment
- New Model Launch/APQP Execution
- Variability Reduction
- Manufacturing Process Technical Specialists
- FMEA Analysis/Workshops
What Support Looks Like
Manufacturing Expertise
Tap into a network of 500,000+ people with manufacturing experience across leading OEMs, suppliers, quality, engineering, and operations.
Scalable Support
Scale resources around the scope, complexity, and urgency of your operation, from targeted expertise to large-scale supplier recovery and performance initiatives.
On-the-Ground Execution
Our teams work directly alongside yours to assess challenges, implement improvements, and support execution where the work is happening.
When Manufacturing Problems Stack Up, What Do You Fix First?
Our CSO Model gives manufacturing leaders a practical framework to stabilize urgent issues, strengthen supplier performance, and build lasting operational improvement. See how Crisis Management, Supplier Development, and Operational Excellence work together to move teams from firefighting to measurable progress.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Advisory Services
What are manufacturing advisory services?
- Manufacturing advisory services bring experienced manufacturing professionals into an operation to diagnose a problem and help fix it. That can mean engineering and operations expertise for a specific technical issue, leadership or supervision covering a gap, an assessment of launch or supplier risk, or a focused effort to take cost out of a process. The work happens in the plant, alongside the existing team.
When should a manufacturer bring in an outside advisor?
- Usually when a problem has survived more than one internal attempt to fix it, or when the work needed sits outside what the current team has time or experience to take on. Common triggers include a launch slipping, a supplier that keeps missing, scrap or rework trending up with no clear cause, an open leadership role, or a customer escalation that needs an answer this week.
How is advisory support different from staffing or a traditional consulting firm?
- Staffing fills a headcount. Traditional consulting often delivers a recommendation and leaves the execution to you. MS Companies advisors work in the operation and stay through implementation, and because we also deploy inspection, containment, and on-site quality teams, the same partner can move from a plan to people on the floor without a handoff to another vendor.
What is the CSO Model?
- The CSO Model is our framework for deciding what to fix first when problems stack up. It works across three areas: Crisis Management to stabilize the immediate issue, Supplier Development to strengthen the performance behind it, and Operational Excellence to make the improvement hold. It gives leaders a way to sequence the work instead of fighting everything at once.
What does an advisory engagement look like?
- Most start with a short scoping conversation and an on-site or virtual assessment to confirm the problem and what success looks like. From there we match the right experience to the work, agree on scope and duration, and place advisors in the operation. Engagements range from a focused two-week assessment to embedded support that runs for several months, and they can scale up or down as the situation changes.
What industries and locations does MS Companies support?
- We support manufacturers across North America in automotive, aviation, aerospace, defense, and other production environments. MS Companies is ISO 9001:2015 certified.