Consulting Services offered by Burns Bridge Engineering

Burns Bridge has extensive experience in Lean Manufacturing, Quality Systems Implementation, Cost of Quality Improvement, Throughput Improvement, Process Improvement, and Operations Management.  Burns Bridge has extensive exposure to the following processes:  glass container moulding, curtain wall window manufacturing, aluminum casting in sand permanent mould and high pressure die cast processes, OEM automotive aluminum piston casting and machining, OEM automotive machining of engine components (blocks, cams, cranks, heads and pistons, OEM automotive engine assembly and test, tier 1 machining of transmission components, tier 1 stamping and automated robotic welding assembly, tier 1 automotive fabrication and assembly of fuel and brake bundles, manufacturing of engineered to order centrifugal and positive displacement pumps, high speed machining of aerospace aluminum forgings, high volume blue box recycling of consumer plastics, service and repair of a wide variety of engineered to order pumps and rotating equipment.  

Burns Bridge has experience with hydraulics, pneumatics, combustion systems, electronic computer and programmable logic controller systems, control valve sizing and a variety of bulk conveying systems (belt raw material conveyors, bucket elevators and pneumatic mixed phase transport systems).

Burns Bridge also has experience with leak testing (delta pressure, mass flow, helium spectrometry sniffing and under water), non destructive testing processes such as x ray inspection, dye penetrant inspection, magnetic particle inspection, positive material identification and variable  versus attribute inspection processes.  Complementing this is substantive knowledge of ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy.

Burns Bridge can provide assistance with the following:

• Business Turnarounds
• Lean manufacturing assessments and implementations,

• Quality system assessments and implementations (ISO9000, QS9000, TS16949, AS9000, ISO14000, OHSA18001),

• Lean process mapping (value stream mapping),

• Work cell design and implementation (e.g. "U", "L" and "T" designs),

• Internal waste (process discount) and external waste (customer returns and warranty) elimination,

• Zero defects manufacturing (Six sigma)

• 5S safety programs and behavioural safety training and implementation,

• Pre-start Safety Assessments,

• Ergonomics assessments and problem solution implementations,

• Error Proofing

• Problem solving training (Shainin, Kepner Trego, The New Science of Fixing Things, Statistical Engineering, Six Sigma)

• Bottleneck identification and mitigation,

• Storage and rack solutions and assessments including rack safety inspections,

• Development & Building permits.
  

• Moulding process solutions (glass containers, aluminum castings (sand, permanent mould and high pressure diecast), hot air forming of multilayer polymer automotive fuel tubing,

• Casting design and sourcing solutions,

• Machining process troubleshooting,

• Welding process troubleshooting,

• Process control troubleshooting (adjustment, temperature, flow, pressure, and motion),

• Hydraulic process troubleshooting,

• Control valve sizing,

• Assembly process solutions (ergonomic, torque, fixture and balance),

• Rotating equipment procurement and service repair recommendations.

• Project management.

• Natural Gas Combustion Systems

• Non Destructive Testing