Ben Kurtz

Ben is the partner with the stopwatch, the layout sketch, and the OEE math. Two decades of industrial engineering have given him an internal model for how a shop floor should flow. And an immediate read on how yours actually does. He sees the constraint before the team finishes the floor walk. He builds the quantified case for every change the binder recommends, in dollars, in time, and in throughput.

On your engagement, Ben spends the first week onsite watching the operation in real time. Every line, every handoff, every queue, every operator. He documents takt times, line balance, equipment utilization, and the dozens of small inefficiencies that compound into the bottleneck nobody on the inside can see anymore. He runs the time studies. He sketches the redesigned layout on the whiteboard before he writes it into the binder. He is the partner who makes the recommendations defensible.

The industrial engineering case Ben builds is what makes the binder's findings hold up to a board, a lender, or a buyer. Anyone can claim a process is inefficient. Ben proves it, quantifies it, and shows you exactly what fixing it is worth.