“At TPT, we can provide your organization with experienced engineering and operations employees. We can support your goals and needs.”

The Productivity Team (TPT) is a highly regarded manufacturing engineering consulting firm based in the Detroit metropolitan area, known for its expertise in supporting a diverse range of industries. Serving clients across automotive OEMs, tier 1 suppliers, defense, aerospace, heavy equipment, appliance manufacturing, and more, TPT is a trusted partner for companies seeking to optimize their operations. Additionally, TPT offers tailored services to startups and small privately-held companies in need of process improvements, workforce solutions, and facility expansion or consolidation.

TPT's strength lies in its team of hundreds of experienced industrial, quality, manufacturing, and facilities engineers, each specializing in new product launches, process optimization, and quality enhancement. The company’s commitment is clear—providing exceptional engineering talent to meet the specific needs of each client, no matter the scope or duration of the project.

With a flexible contracting model, TPT accommodates both short-term challenges and long-term resource planning, ensuring that clients receive the right expertise at the right time. Their global reach spans North America, South Africa, and Europe, further solidifying their ability to support clients worldwide. Whether executing a new product launch or tackling complex manufacturing issues, The Productivity Team is dedicated to delivering impactful solutions that drive success for businesses across various sectors.

Engineering Services

Facility Engineering

TPT provides full-service facility planning to help companies improve profitability while reducing overhead. In a manufacturing setting, the facility is much more than just a building; it is a key component that directly affects efficiency, flow, and the bottom line. TPT's team of experienced facilities engineers specializes in designing lean, efficient manufacturing environments that optimize the entire production process.

Through facility consolidation studies, make/buy analysis, and due diligence for facility acquisitions, TPT assists clients in making informed decisions that can streamline operations. Their areas of expertise include supply chain strategies, materials planning, and determining warehouse and storage requirements to ensure that every aspect of the facility supports the business's manufacturing needs.

TPT's engineers undertake comprehensive adjacency analysis studies that eliminate unnecessary movements between subassembly operations and the main assembly line, ensuring a seamless flow of materials from raw goods receiving to finished goods shipping. They also provide phased facility planning, block layout development, and preliminary budget and schedule development to ensure that projects stay on track and on budget.

TPT ensures that its clients' manufacturing facilities are optimized for maximum productivity, cost efficiency, and future growth by incorporating lean building design principles into the planning process.

Industrial Engineering

TPT offers expert industrial engineering for companies to design and implement lean and efficient manufacturing processes that provide maximum profitability and eliminate waste. Industrial engineers working under TPT bring years of expertise and knowledge into each assignment, focusing on the fundamental manufacturing domains: manpower, methods, machines, and materials – known as the 4M's. TPT focuses on identifying and eliminating the non-value-added activities through these domains so that all production processes become streamlined and optimized.

TPT's industrial engineers help companies adjust when production needs are either altered due to a new product or changed rates of production. With their expertise and tools, this team supports businesses in making the transitions both up and down in demand to ensure that both capacity and labor requirements can keep pace with business objectives.

In current and future state value stream development, the company is particularly excellent and gives unique and customized manufacturing strategies to any business. TPT conducts a gap analysis of management and operator skill sets in order to ensure staff is ready enough to support the production goals. In addition, the team provides benchmarking studies comparing industry standards with areas for improvement, along with materials and logistics planning meant to optimize supply chains.

The client can improve operational efficiency in their bottom line, reduce waste, and ultimately grow productivity through leveraging the services provided by TPT's Industrial Engineering.

Quality Engineering

TPT offers quality engineering services that are designed to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability. Quality engineers in the TPT team specialize in first-time-through metrics improvement using sophisticated problem-solving techniques and root cause analysis directly on the shop floor. The TPT integrates a wide variety of quality tools and methods to eliminate scrap, minimize third-party inspections, and optimize manufacturing processes for efficiency and product quality.

TPT's services include: APQP, PFMEA and TS-16949 audits. They also provide some design recommendations in terms of error-proofing systems design, process validation, tooling design, etc., to minimize defects. By this approach, the group ensures continuous improvement and sustainability, which allows businesses to produce high-quality products at par with the customer expectation.

Dave Kunselman - CEO

“We support start-ups and small privately held companies that need process improvement, facilities expansion or consolidation services and workforce solutions.”