Leather footwear, sports footwear and large brownfield footwear organisations — direct, hands-on engagement across every environment, from Design & Development through mass production.
A well-engineered footwear product creates mileage in manufacturing — simpler to build, easier to control, more consistent and more commercially viable.
Review construction early to simplify operations and ensure repeatability at production scale.
Evaluate shoe shape and construction so the design is practical and stable for manufacturing.
Standardise components, materials and specifications to reduce complexity and inventory.
Assess how upper, sole and other components interact and fit together to reduce assembly variability.
Consider tooling accuracy, repeatability, maintenance and production capability during development.
Define sequence and identify potential process failure points before mass production.
Validate materials, tooling, methods, quality standards and process capability before full-scale production.
Define critical quality points and controls so quality is engineered into the process, not inspected in afterward.
The business is managed through minutes, not only pairs produced — SMV/SAM (Standard Minute Value / Standard Allowed Minute) becomes the common language for capacity, manpower, line loading and productivity.
Controlled flow with minimum inventory; bottlenecks become visible.
Move toward single-piece flow to shorten lead time and surface problems fast.
Skill matrices and workload balancing aligned to actual minute demand.
Accurate capture of output, downtime, quality and efficiency for fact-based decisions.
Over the last two years, Mike has personally led and supported three consecutive footwear transformation projects in India as an independent consultant and, most recently, under Texora10XGlobal — covering leather footwear, sports footwear and a large brownfield transformation.
An export-oriented leather footwear manufacturing operation using stuck-on construction. Focused on process gaps, process discipline, quality controls and Order-to-Delivery improvement.
A transformation programme supporting a sports footwear vertical — Lean practices, quality management, process discipline, workforce engagement and change management, while maintaining production continuity.
A broad brownfield transformation involving performance-management restructuring, QMS strengthening, process optimisation and change management within an established footwear organisation.
Progress figures are the current, self-reported programme status shared for these engagements. Final scope, baseline, target and measurement method are agreed with each client at programme mobilisation — they are not independently audited results.
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