Our Solution

Milliken Performance Solutions is your pathway to operational excellence, offering strategies to make your organization safer and more competitive in the marketplace. Our level of expertise and our proven processes set us apart from traditional consulting organizations. We only offer services that are considered to be core competencies of Milliken & Company, so you can rest assured that our operational strategies have been tested in the real world and proven successful. To ensure that you learn from only the most educated and knowledgeable people, only associates that have been deeply involved and are trained and experienced in the process are allowed to assist clients.

We believe in holistic, systematic approaches for improving manufacturing safety and creating operational excellence. Our systematic approach far exceeds single-point strategies like Six Sigma, Lean and other stand-alone solutions. The stand-alone initiative approach often provides short-term improvement, but these improvements are difficult to sustain and tend to confuse rather than align the organization.

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Milliken Performance System

The Milliken Performance System™ is a "Daily Management System" that provides a systematic, step-by-step method leading to sustainable operational excellence. The Milliken Performance System is built around defined pillars that create the operating system, and ensure the appropriate education and skill levels are in place for all associates. The Milliken Performance System combines all of Milliken's quality initiatives of the last decade into a precision-focused approach, creating dramatic breakthroughs that, when successfully implemented, ultimately lead to reduced cost, higher morale, increased customer satisfaction, and a cleaner and safer working environment. The principles of the Milliken Performance System promote the goal of reducing defects, breakdowns, waste and other abnormalities to almost "zero" as the expected norm.

The Milliken Performance System is built to focus on properly managing equipment, improving associates' skills and knowledge, preventive and predictive maintenance, new product innovation and safety and environmental management. Additionally, the Milliken Performance System uses an extensive approach for getting to root causes of less-than-optimized performance through focused improvement for systematic, lasting cost reduction.

When Successfully Implemented:

Tangible Benefits

  • Reliable Productivity
  • Enhanced, Sustained Quality
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness
  • Systematic Cost Reduction
  • Safe Working Environment
Intangible Benefits

  • Improved Morale
  • Common Language, Common Process
  • Promotes Teamwork
  • Empowered Workforce
  • Enhances Employee Development
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