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Northbridge Advisory
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North Loop, Minneapolis

Operations consulting for small manufacturers

A former plant manager on your shop floor, not a slide deck

Northbridge works with manufacturers of 10 to 200 employees across the Upper Midwest. Every engagement is fixed scope and ends with a written plan your team can run without us.

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Northbridge

Started by a plant manager, not a consultancy

Northbridge Advisory was started in 2016 by Erik Lindqvist, a former plant manager, to give small manufacturers the operations help usually reserved for large companies.

The work happens at the client’s site: watching how jobs move through the shop, where they wait, and what the schedule does when something slips. Erik also writes a monthly operations newsletter for small plant owners.

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    At the machines

    We watch the work where it happens, because the delays are visible there and nowhere else.

  • 02

    One price, one scope

    The engagement is written down and agreed before it starts.

More about us

Four ways we work on your floor

Engagements

  • Floor assessment

    $4,500

  • Lean rollout

  • Inventory cleanup

  • Supervisor training

    $2,800

Our expertise

Why Northbridge

The work happens where the problems are

What separates an engagement here from advice delivered from an office.

  • On your floor The work happens on your shop floor, with your team, not from a slide deck.

  • Run by a plant manager Erik Lindqvist ran plants before he started advising them, so the questions come from someone who has stood at the machine.

  • Fixed scope You know what you are buying before we start, and we know what has to be delivered.

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How it works

From the first call to a plan your team runs

  1. First conversation

    A free call about what is happening on your floor and whether it is a fit.

  2. Scope agreed

    We set the engagement and its fixed scope in writing before any work starts.

  3. Days on site

    We stand at the machines with your leads and watch where jobs wait.

  4. The handover

    Your team walks through the plan with us, then runs it on its own.

Clients

What manufacturers say after the work

  • Erik spent two weeks on our floor and cut our changeover time in half. The plan still works a year later.

    Paul D., plant owner

  • Hannah sorted out our inventory mess without new software. Practical and fast.

    Karen L., operations manager

  • They trained our supervisors instead of making us depend on them.

    Jim R., general manager

Our team

  • Erik Lindqvist

    founder and lead consultant

  • Hannah Berg

    supply chain consultant

  • Tom Okafor

    quality systems consultant

Start with a free conversation about your shop

Describe the problem in a message and we will arrange the first call. The first conversation about your shop is free.

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