About The Streamline Group
Manufacturing professionals solving real production problems on real shop floors.
Built on a Simple Observation
The Streamline Group, LLC was founded on a simple observation: most manufacturing inefficiency doesn't come from bad equipment or bad people — it comes from processes that evolved by accident rather than by design.
Founded by manufacturing professionals with decades of combined experience in CNC machining, lean manufacturing, and production management, The Streamline Group exists to close the gap between what your shop floor is doing and what it's capable of doing.
Based in Anna, TX, we serve manufacturers across the United States. Our firm was born from frustration with large consulting firms that deliver binders of polished recommendations without implementing a single change. We watched shops pay six-figure consulting fees only to shelve the report because no one on the consultant's team had ever run a CNC machine or managed a production schedule under pressure.
Our approach is different. We work on the shop floor, not from a conference room. Implementation is part of every engagement — not an optional add-on. When we leave, your team owns the improvements because they helped build them.
The Streamline Group team working alongside operators on a CNC production floor
Our Approach
Every engagement follows the same principle: observe first, measure second, implement third, and verify that the changes hold under real production conditions.
Start With a Walkthrough
We begin every engagement on the shop floor — watching parts move through your process, talking to operators, and measuring what actually matters. No assumptions, no pre-built templates. Your shop is unique, and our analysis reflects that.
Design Around Your Reality
We design changes around the realities of your shop — your machines, your people, your constraints, your delivery schedule. Every recommendation has been validated in real production environments, not in a textbook or a classroom simulation.
Measure With Hard Data
We track setup times, throughput rates, on-time delivery percentages, and scrap rates before, during, and after implementation. You see the impact in numbers your team already understands — not abstract consulting metrics.
Transfer Knowledge
Knowledge transfer is built into every engagement. We train your operators and supervisors on the reasoning behind each change so they can sustain improvements and adapt methods to new challenges independently.
Implement, Don't Just Recommend
We stay through implementation. Our team works alongside yours to install new procedures, troubleshoot issues in real time, and confirm that changes hold under full production load before we call anything finished.
What We Stand For
Three principles guide every engagement, every recommendation, and every hour we spend on your shop floor.
Practical Over Theoretical
If it doesn't work on the busiest Monday of the month, it doesn't work. We test every change against the worst-case scenario your shop faces — rush orders, short-staffed shifts, machine downtime. Theory is useful for understanding problems. Practical solutions are what fix them.
Implementation Over Reports
We don't hand you a binder and leave. We implement alongside your team — adjusting fixtures, resequencing operations, reconfiguring cells — until the improvement is running in production. A recommendation without implementation is just an opinion with a price tag.
Knowledge Transfer Over Dependency
Our goal is to make your team better, not to make you need us permanently. Every engagement includes structured knowledge transfer so your operators and supervisors own the methods. We succeed when you don't need to call us back for the same issue.
The Streamline Group team — experienced manufacturing professionals
Our Team
The Streamline Group is a team of experienced manufacturing professionals who have spent their careers on shop floors — running CNC machines, managing production schedules, implementing lean systems, and solving the kinds of problems that don't show up in a textbook.
Our team brings decades of combined experience across CNC machining and programming, lean and continuous improvement methodologies, production planning and scheduling, custom tooling and fixture design, and machine tool capability assessment. We've worked in job shops running 50-part-number weeks and OEM facilities holding single-digit micron tolerances.
That hands-on background is what separates us from firms that staff engagements with MBAs who've never heard a spindle start. When we walk your floor, we see what your operators see — and we speak the same language.
Credentials & Affiliations
- Lean Six Sigma certified practitioners
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) members
- SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Die) methodology specialists
- Continuous improvement and Kaizen facilitation experience
- Multi-axis CNC machining and programming expertise
Industries We Serve
Our methods apply wherever precision parts are machined. These are the sectors where we've delivered the most impact.
CNC Job Shops
High-mix, low-volume environments where every setup decision impacts the bottom line. We help job shops reduce changeover time, balance scheduling, and increase spindle utilization across diverse part families.
OEM & Tier-1 Suppliers
Complex, tight-tolerance production lines where process stability directly determines profitability. We stabilize critical processes, reduce scrap rates, and improve on-time delivery for demanding OEM programs.
Defense & Aerospace Subcontractors
Mission-critical components demand zero-defect processes and full traceability. We help defense and aerospace shops tighten process controls, document procedures, and maintain compliance while improving throughput.
Medical Device Manufacturers
Regulatory requirements and micron-level tolerances leave no margin for process variation. We help medical device shops optimize validated processes without compromising the quality systems they depend on.
Oil & Gas Components
High-value parts, exotic materials, and demanding surface finish requirements define this sector. We optimize tooling strategies, reduce cycle times on difficult alloys, and improve first-pass yield on critical components.
General Precision Machining
Any shop producing precision-machined components — regardless of industry — benefits from optimized setups, balanced workflows, and a well-trained team. Our core methods adapt to your specific part mix and production volume.