Manufacturing Consultant UK
Lean, quality, OEE, ERP and automation consultants. UK and Wales
MN Consultants brings together specialist manufacturing consultants in Lean, quality, OEE, ERP and automation, led by a chartered engineer. We find recoverable cost on the shop floor, then put the right specialist on the fix.
Illustrative scorecard. Green is healthy, amber needs work, red is fix first.
MN Consultants is a UK manufacturing consultancy of specialist consultants, based in Basingstoke, Hampshire and serving manufacturers across England and Wales. We run operations assessments to find recoverable cost and capacity, fix it with Lean, quality and OEE specialists, then deliver ERP, MRP and automation on processes stable enough to carry them.
Manufacturing problems rarely sit in one discipline. We bring the specialist each site needs, under one chartered engineer who owns the result, so you do not manage five suppliers.
5S, standard work, SMED and flow, so improvements hold after we leave.
Baseline overall equipment effectiveness, attack the six big losses, release capacity without new machines.
FMEA, error-proofing and waste removal that cut the cost of poor quality without redundancies.
Selection, MRP design, NetSuite delivery and rescue of ERP projects that have stalled.
Cobots, smart test rigs and automated assembly, with the ROI proven on measured baselines first.
Senior operations leadership for PE-backed transitions, post-acquisition assessments and rapid change.
Most clients start with the assessment. Some already know where the pain is and start with ERP or automation. Both lead to the same place: an operation you can measure and control.
A structured, on-site review of how your factory actually runs: flow, quality, equipment, people and cost. You get a prioritised action plan with a pound value on every finding.
Independent digital roadmaps and delivery: ERP and MRP, shop-floor data capture, MES readiness and automation, sequenced so each step pays for the next.
If works orders, bills of materials, routings and stock records are unreliable, a new system exposes the mess rather than fixing it. That is why we assess first.
Government-backed programmes point the same way: the Made Smarter adoption programme starts SMEs with a digital roadmap before technology spend. Read our Made Smarter grants guide.
Every specialist works to the same method. Each phase has a defined output, so you can stop, pause or continue at every gate.
Two weeks on the floor. Value stream mapping, OEE and right-first-time baselines, waste quantified in pounds.
Standard work, 5S, visual management and daily problem-solving so results hold without us.
Changeover, flow, scheduling and quality improvements aimed at the biggest constraint first.
ERP, MRP, data capture and automation specified from proven requirements and justified with measured ROI.
Outcomes from our engagements across automotive, healthcare supply, fluid systems and private-equity-backed manufacturers.
Right-first-time rose from 70% to 99.8% through error-proofing, FMEA and standard work.
A structured process review found £162K and £110K of annual savings on two lines. Nobody lost their job.
Removing non-value-adding steps and fixing a long-standing scheduling problem lifted productivity with no redundancies.
Capacity planning that avoided £45K of customer penalty charges.
We are based in Basingstoke, Hampshire, and work on site with manufacturers across England and Wales. Remote working supports the planning and reporting between visits.
Most improvement fails because nobody stood on the floor and watched the whole process run, start to finish.
Muti Nayyar, Founder, CEng MIMechE
MN Consultants is led by Muti Nayyar, a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, with an MSc in Engineering from Cranfield University and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Coventry University.
Muti leads every engagement and brings in the specialist consultants each site needs. You deal with the person accountable for the result: no pyramid of juniors, no long retainers.
About Muti NayyarMN Consultants is a team of specialist manufacturing consultants covering Lean, quality, OEE, ERP and automation, led by Muti Nayyar, a Chartered Engineer. Muti scopes and owns every engagement and brings in the specialists the site needs, so you have one accountable lead rather than several suppliers.
It depends on the starting point, which is why we baseline first. Our engagements have removed £700K of cost of poor quality, found £272K of annual savings on two automotive lines and lifted productivity 12% with no redundancies. The assessment puts a pound value on every finding before you commit to fixing it.
A manufacturing consultant reviews how a factory plans, makes, inspects and ships product, then recommends and often delivers changes that raise output, quality and margin. At MN Consultants that starts with an on-site operations assessment and can continue into ERP, MRP, automation or digitalisation work.
It is a structured review of a factory's operations, covering flow, quality, equipment effectiveness, people, inventory and systems, based on direct observation. The output is a scored baseline and a prioritised action plan with a pound value against each opportunity.
Yes. Unreliable works orders, BOMs, routings and stock records turn a new ERP or MES into an expensive way to see the same mess. Assessing and stabilising first means requirements come from proven process, and the system is cheaper to implement.
Yes. We work on site with manufacturers across Wales and the rest of the UK. See our manufacturing consultants for Wales page for how this works, including funding routes that differ from England.
The on-site diagnostic takes about two weeks. Cost depends on the number of sites and the scope. We agree both with you in writing before any work starts. Book a call to discuss your site.
A short call with a manufacturing consultant is enough to tell you whether an assessment makes sense for your site.
Manufacturing operations assessment and digitalisation for UK manufacturers. Led by a chartered engineer. Stabilise first, then automate.
UK-based. Serving manufacturers nationwide.
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