About
Led by Tim Corcoran, whose background was built in automation bring-up, pilot production, production ramp, and complex equipment builds — the parts of manufacturing where products, processes, and equipment have to prove themselves under real operating pressure.
Mr. Corcoran worked directly inside Jabil’s automation and capital equipment organizations on complex manufacturing programs tied to companies such as Apple, Google, and semiconductor equipment manufacturers including Xcerra (Cohu).
This was hands-on work: building automation equipment, bringing pilot production systems online, troubleshooting failures during bring-up, improving line performance during ramp, and helping define how complex products and equipment should actually be built in production.
Some of that work was tied to high-volume consumer hardware. Some of it involved semiconductor equipment, test systems, industrial automation, and custom production equipment. Different environments, same reality: a system being technically functional meant very little if it could not perform in production.
What Years in Manufacturing Have Taught Us
Working and performing are not the same: A line can be running and still be underperforming. Output may be unstable, quality may drift, or operators may have to keep intervening just to hold it together.
Pilot exposes reality: Pilot is where assumptions meet real operating conditions. Process gaps, equipment issues, handoff failures, and missing structure show up quickly once the system has to actually run.
Automation cannot rescue a weak process: Automation can strengthen a capable process. It cannot fix one that is unclear, unstable, or poorly defined. If the process is weak, the machine usually exposes it.
“In manufacturing, there is a big difference between a system that works and one that actually performs.”
-Tim Corcoran
Why Trueworx Exists
Manufacturing problems are often easy to feel but hard to define.
What looks like a strategy issue may actually be a process problem. What feels like a capacity problem may be a scaling problem. What gets labeled as an automation need may really be a system that has never been clearly defined.
A process is unclear. A line is unstable. Equipment underperforms. Material is missing. A handoff breaks down. Output, quality, or delivery become harder to hold.
The goal is not to hand over a report and leave. Trueworx exists to identify what is limiting performance, fix it, and leave behind a manufacturing system that runs with more control, better output, and less disruption.
Where We Usually Help
Trueworx is usually a fit when a manufacturer is dealing with one or more of the following:
- Pilot Production Lines That Need to Stabilize Before Scale
- Production Ramps That Are Struggling to Reach Target Output
- Determining If Automation Equipment Is Needed, or Improving What Is Already in Place
- Complex Equipment Builds That Need Stronger Production Structure
- Recurring Issues Affecting Throughput, Quality, or Delivery
Start With the Manufacturing Diagnostic
Most manufacturing problems look bigger and more complicated from the outside than they do once they are seen clearly on the floor.
The first step is identifying what is actually limiting performance. That is what the Manufacturing Diagnostic is designed to do.