Andrzej Mazur

Practitioner with fourteen years of experience on the shop floor

Andrzej did not learn optimization from expensive textbooks in an air-conditioned office. He spent 14 years at CNC machines and on assembly lines in plants near Krakow. He knows that every minute of downtime is a real loss that cannot be made up with overtime. At Filary Biznesu Consulting, he deals with what is most important: looking for escaping money where others see 'normal work'.

Facts on the table: in 2024 alone, Andrzej completed 27 corrective projects in production companies. His record is shortening a press changeover time from 48 minutes to 13 minutes and 20 seconds. He did it without buying new machines. He simply organized the tools and changed the sequence of the worker's movements. We count every minute because math on the production floor does not lie.

Method of work without fluff

Andrzej starts by taking a stopwatch and a sheet of paper. He is not interested in general assurances that 'it's going somehow'. For the first 4 hours of the audit, he stands by the workstation and looks. He sees when a worker walks 15 meters for a wrench that is not at hand. Such a walk repeated 40 times a day is pure waste of time.

• He implements the 5S system, after which everyone knows where the screwdriver is in 3 seconds.
• He draws simple process maps that every operator understands, not just the management.
• He teaches foremen how to report errors before a whole batch of goods ends up in the trash.
• He introduces simple improvements that give breath to the company budget as early as the first month.

He can be direct and sometimes says something too sharply, but that's because he hates to see your money wasted. In October 2023, he helped a furniture manufacturer from the Myślenice area regain 14.2% margin. This was made possible only by discarding unnecessary steps during packing. For Andrzej, automation is not magic, it's pure math and order at the workstation. P.S. If there's a mess on the floor, Andrzej will likely tell you to clean it up before starting any measurements.