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Connected Blueprint™

Uncover opportunities, prioritize projects, and develop a connected execution plan. MCA Connect’s Connected Blueprint™ will help you uncover broken links in your processes and opportunities to drive efficiency in just a few weeks.

Start your journey to modernization

To successfully modernize, you must first see what’s possible. That’s why we believe in empowering you to uncover possibilities and act on what you find.

Created exclusively for manufacturers, MCA Connect’s Connected Blueprint™ is a consulting engagement designed to make the most impact in the shortest amount of time. It’s not a one-size-fits-all approach. It’s a customized strategy built around your most critical business areas that delivers tangible results via a phased execution plan.

“Connected Blueprint™ allowed our company to move quickly to align our business and IT goals and to gain the appropriate buy-in across all levels and departments within the organization. As a result, we were able to drive change within weeks instead of months.”
January Clarke, Director of IT, Magpul

Overview

Receive your blueprint for modernization in weeks

Gain expert guidance, actionable insights, a path for continuous improvement, and impactful P&L results. Led by MCA Connect’s Manufacturing Strategy experts, Connected Blueprint™ will help you uncover broken links in your processes and opportunities to drive efficiency in 4-6 weeks.

Step 1: Assess

Better understand future demand, technology trends, and competitive threats to create proactive manufacturing strategies. We’ll help you break down siloes to ensure your manufacturing solutions seamlessly support your overall goals.

Identify your strengths and weaknesses in a discovery phase

Complete a Gemba Walk with our experts to pinpoint opportunities in your processes

Compile and analyze data to create a structured path

Create tailored, innovative solutions with our subject matter experts

Step 2: Prioritize

Prioritize opportunities on a Kaizen PICK chart using the assessment findings from our discussions and Gemba Walk. Through a focused workshop on the areas most critical to your success, we’ll guide you along the way and tailor the workshop to your business needs. Our focused workshops are tailored to your business problems and may include:

Create a more resilient supply chain

Increase manufacturing productivity

Build a more agile factory

Automate business processes

Step 3: Act

After identifying strengths and weaknesses, prioritizing opportunities, and completing a focused workshop, act on the insights uncovered in your customized Connected Blueprint™.

Explore findings and recommendations based on an operational excellence analysis

Pursue prioritized opportunities on your tailored Kaizen PICK chart

Boost your bottom line with a financial value estimate model tied to your P&L report and balance sheet

Gain momentum with an execution plan detailing immediate wins, costs, and timeline

What you get with Connected Blueprint™

Findings and recommendations

Prioritized Kaizen Opportunity PICK Chart

Financial value estimate model

Execution Plan

Speak to our experts to learn more and get started.

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“Connected Blueprint™ touched on everything. We talked to a couple of different vendors about the products and services they offer, but MCA Connect was the first one to lay it out this way. Seeing this is very powerful.”
Global Industrial Equipment Manufacturer

A blueprint for every journey

Uncover possibilities and take the first steps to modernization. From automotive to supply chain, our focused Connected Blueprints™ help you achieve more.