Enabling Growth
Torsten Borchers is the founder and Principal Consultant at CI DESIGN CONSULTING LLC. He is a certified consultant with decades of proven hands-on CI leadership experience at technology companies of diverse sizes, from startups to industry-leading Fortune 500.
● 25+ years of design and leadership experience in Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Operations, and EHS in capital equipment industries.
● Methodically developed and improved products and business processes, including Lean Manufacturing, Time-To-Ramp, Quality, Reliability, Margins, Efficiencies, and Safety.
● Led 20+ Continuous Improvement Programs (CIP) to achieve 20% cost reduction, 30% cycle time reduction, and Best-In-Class performance.
● Lean Six Sigma Black Belt | Certified Consultant | Certified Change Practitioner | MSME
● Torsten's profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torsten1/
We offer on-site services in the San Francisco Bay Area / Silicon Valley and remote services worldwide.
CI DESIGN CONSULTING LLC was founded in late 2024 to help technology startups and small businesses grow with Continuous Improvement.
Core Competencies
Product CI: Quality | Reliability | FMEA | Root Cause Analysis | Design for Manufacturing | Systems Engineering | Vacuum System Design | Vibration Control | Value Engineering | Obsolescence Resilience
Process CI: Lean | 6-Sigma | Operational Excellence | Scalability | QMS | ISO-9001 | EHS | Change Mgt. | Supply Chain Management | Manufacturing Processes | Business Process Optimization | Digital Workflow Design | Smartsheet | Arena PLM/QMS | Program Management
How We Work
The strength of our services is grounded in our Modus Operandi:
1 - We aim to understand our client's challenges, vision, and prioritized needs for the short-term and the long-term future.
2 - We define a custom strategy and plan to provide simple and scalable solutions aligned with our client's vision, culture, needs, and budget.
3 - We collaborate with our clients whether the aim is an incremental improvement or a more radical change.
4 - We share our knowledge so the client can maintain the benefits we achieved as a team. We support the implementation and beyond as trusted partners.
5 - We love solving problems - we take pride in the outcomes and the sustainable and scalable benefits to our clients.
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CI DESIGN CONSULTING LLC
torsten@cidesignconsulting.com