OPEX Design Partners helps small and medium manufacturing and service companies run leaner, deliver better, and build the workforce that keeps it all running — through proven operational excellence methods, made practical.
Every engagement starts with a conversation and ends with a process your team owns — measurable, repeatable, and built to last.
Built on disciplines that work
We don't drop a binder on your desk and leave. We design, implement, and hand over operations your team can sustain on its own.
Map, measure, and redesign your core processes to remove waste, reduce variation, and shorten lead times — with results you can see on the floor and in the numbers.
Build a system — not a one-time fix. We put the structure, metrics, and daily-management habits in place so improvement becomes part of how your company operates.
Design and implement workforce strategies for operational areas — so the right people have the right skills, structure, and progression to keep your operation strong.
Align your operations with where the business is going. We help you design the operating model, capacity, and priorities that support sustainable growth.
Operational excellence isn't a slogan — it's a sequence. Here's how we move your operation forward without disrupting what already works.
We listen and observe. Through interviews, data, and time on the floor, we understand how your operation truly works — and where value is being lost.
We redesign the process and the workforce around it — practical, right-sized solutions tailored to a small or medium company's reality and resources.
We work alongside your team to put changes into practice, train the people involved, and prove the improvement with real metrics.
We leave you with standards, habits, and capabilities your team owns — so the gains hold and improvement keeps compounding after we're gone.
Big-firm methods are often built for big-firm budgets. We bring the same operational-excellence discipline — Lean, Six Sigma, process design, workforce development — and make it practical and affordable for the companies that drive the real economy.
See if we're a fitProduction flow, quality, throughput, and shop-floor capability for makers of all kinds.
Service delivery, back-office processes, and team performance for service-driven businesses.
Founder & CEO · Industrial Engineer
Luis Olivares is an industrial engineer with more than 25 years of experience in operational consulting, and a university professor of industrial engineering. He has spent his career helping organizations see their operations clearly, design better ways of working, and develop the people who run them.
That blend of hands-on consulting and teaching is what defines OPEX Design Partners: rigorous engineering thinking, explained in plain language, and implemented in a way your team can actually carry forward.
We use serious methodology, but we explain it simply — so your whole team understands the why, not just the what.
Solutions scaled to your budget, your team, and your reality — never a corporate template forced onto a smaller company.
Process and workforce go together. We design the operation and develop the people who keep it running.
Our goal is your independence. We transfer capability so improvements last long after the engagement ends.
A short conversation is the best place to start. Send us a note about your company and the challenge you're facing, and we'll tell you honestly how we can help.