Expertise

We deliver solutions by going
beyond traditional consulting, directly
addressing your operational pain points with hands-on expertise that drives real,
measurable improvements.

We deliver solutions by going beyond traditional consulting, directly addressing your operational pain points with hands-on expertise that drives real, measurable improvements.

We deliver solutions by going
beyond traditional consulting, directly addressing your operational pain points with hands-on expertise that drives real, measurable improvements.

Why we’ve founded the firm

Our mission is retaining industry’s best talent to fix the most difficult challenges. We focus on measurable, tangible results rather than theoretical advice and “just filling positions”.

Our mission is retaining industry’s best talent to fix the most difficult challenges. We focus on measurable, tangible results rather than theoretical advice and “just filling positions”.

We don’t just show up to your struggling manufacturing facility to write a PowerPoint to explain what’s wrong. We engage on the shop floor. We follow the process from the daily start up meeting, to line-side visual management, all the way to the shipping dock to identify gaps and redundancies and engage to correct the issues.

40+

Clients

50+

turnaround projects

20+

suppliers

25+

OEM’s

Our experience

Our range of expertise includes transforming struggling operations to achieve expected results by engaging on the shop floor, value stream mapping entire complex enterprises to identify and eliminate waste from order to invoice, assessing suppliers for anything from launch readiness to waste elimination, and steering awarded-but-not-launched car parts programs back on track for smooth launches.

Our range of expertise includes transforming struggling operations to achieve expected results by engaging on the shop floor, value stream mapping entire complex enterprises to identify and eliminate waste from order to invoice, assessing suppliers for anything from launch readiness to waste elimination, and steering awarded-but-not-launched car parts programs back on track for smooth launches.

Industries

From the fast-paced operations in high volume automotive to the low volume production of commercial vehicles to the ever-changing landscape of the commercial and government aerospace and defense industries, CPR has the experience to lead your operation from a turnaround, to steady state, to continuous improvement.

Automotive

Our consulting team has decades of experience working on the most difficult challenges in operationally intensive environments launching and manufacturing concurrently engineered parts for the auto industry. We’ve enjoyed success in both the OEM’s and in the tiers.



Aerospace & defense

From the front office to the shop floor, CPR has the skill and experience to provide practical solutions to your management, engineering, quality, and materials challenges. Whether you are experiencing issues in pre-launch, crisis management, consolidation, or even new facility construction we have the ability to get your project back on track.

Free consultation

Ready to
work
together?

Ready to work together?

Get tangible results with action-led consulting.

We don’t just diagnose problems; we fix them. Our team engages directly with your operations to implement sustainable solutions that keep you on schedule and on budget.

Get tangible results with action-led consulting.

We don’t just diagnose problems; we fix them. Our team engages directly with your operations to implement sustainable solutions that keep you on schedule and on budget.

To find out about our impact and how we helped
our clients visit our Case Studies

To find out about our impact and how we helped
our clients visit our Case Studies

Get in touch

Get in touch

Get in touch

Our process

Our process

Our process

01
01
Project start and analysis

Discovery

Discovery

Discovery

We start by seeking to understand your challenge. This includes discussing “the ask” with the client, conducting Rapid Plant Assessments, or reviewing your project status with knowledge in the light of experience.

Stop the bleeding

Containment

Containment

Containment

While we work to implement permanent corrective actions, fill gaps, and eliminate redundancies for long term stability, we implement temporary non-standard containment to artificially eliminate pain points to increase yield or mask the deviation from expected outcome.

02
02
03
03
Address root cause

Solve

Solve

Solve

Apply decades of experience to define and implement standard work with technical problem solving, lean principles, and radical transparency as advocates for the truth while searching for solutions to problems without bias.

Empower to sustain

Train

Train

Train

Having achieved stability for your situation, we engage to train client staff to continue successful execution. This isn’t classroom training. We continue to “do the doing” and bring you along to demonstrate how we interpret and respond to situations to sustain the desired performance.

04
04
05
05
Handoff

Transition

Transition

Transition

During the mentorship of the client staff, we prepare work-package handoff playbooks to specifically define each action or behavior required to sustain success and secure our client matched pair agreement that we have delivered.

What our clients say

"The wealth of experience, seasoned perspective, critical insights, empathy, and management style were all finely tuned for the assignment. Their ability to connect with both the Leadership Team and the front line departmental people while de-constructing the fundamental issues, and developing the integrated Order to Invoice process was remarkable."

Rick Duncan,

Fractional Integrator

"The wealth of experience, seasoned perspective, critical insights, empathy, and management style were all finely tuned for the assignment. Their ability to connect with both the Leadership Team and the front line departmental people while de-constructing the fundamental issues, and developing the integrated Order to Invoice process was remarkable."

Rick Duncan,

Fractional Integrator

"The wealth of experience, seasoned perspective, critical insights, empathy, and management style were all finely tuned for the assignment. Their ability to connect with both the Leadership Team and the front line departmental people while de-constructing the fundamental issues, and developing the integrated Order to Invoice process was remarkable."

Rick Duncan,

Fractional Integrator

"Critical Path Recovery was able to immediately expand our Quality and PC&L bandwidth with boots-on-the-ground leadership. They also provided “been-there, done-that” launch experience. They were able to provide instant relief on the shop floor and create a roadmap from development to new model launch."

President and CEO,

The Shyft Group

"Critical Path Recovery was able to immediately expand our Quality and PC&L bandwidth with boots-on-the-ground leadership. They also provided “been-there, done-that” launch experience. They were able to provide instant relief on the shop floor and create a roadmap from development to new model launch."

President and CEO,

The Shyft Group

"Critical Path Recovery was able to immediately expand our Quality and PC&L bandwidth with boots-on-the-ground leadership. They also provided “been-there, done-that” launch experience. They were able to provide instant relief on the shop floor and create a roadmap from development to new model launch."

President and CEO,

The Shyft Group

"For anyone looking for an organizational or operational transformation consultant who drives deep for results and can bring the entire organization along for the ride, call Tony from Critical Path Recovery. "

President and Owner,

Brandmotion

"For anyone looking for an organizational or operational transformation consultant who drives deep for results and can bring the entire organization along for the ride, call Tony from Critical Path Recovery. "

President and Owner,

Brandmotion

"For anyone looking for an organizational or operational transformation consultant who drives deep for results and can bring the entire organization along for the ride, call Tony from Critical Path Recovery. "

President and Owner,

Brandmotion

Free consultation

Ready to
work
together?

Ready to work together?

Get tangible results with action-led consulting.

We don’t just diagnose problems; we fix them. Our team engages directly with your operations to implement sustainable solutions that keep you on schedule and on budget.