Operational excellence consulting
Young Industries Unlimited helps food, beverage, and industrial operations raise throughput, cut waste, and build safety cultures. Founder Rodney Young is a plant manager with experience on the floor and in the boardroom.
What Rodney does
Value stream mapping, kaizen events, and waste elimination that show up in throughput and cost.
Moving from firefighting to planning: preventive maintenance systems, work-order discipline, and downtime reduction.
Embedding safety cultures in the workforce and developing engagement programs that improve retention.
Rail and warehouse optimization, vendor-managed inventory, and scheduling discipline that reduce carrying costs.
Results
Flour milling
Reactive maintenance was costing a facility more than 20 hours of emergency downtime every week. A planning-led maintenance system cut that to under 5.
Flour milling
Production bottlenecks were capping throughput and limiting what the mill could promise customers. A redesigned product flow raised capacity 29% inside the same walls.
Food & beverage packaging
A packaging line was missing its output targets. Time studies, workflow analysis, and role standardization lifted daily production 15% with the same crew.
“Rodney is a strong performer and an excellent leader… He listens and learns, and he helps others to improve and grow.”
Dan Dye — Retired CEO, Ardent Mills (2014–2024)
Who you'll work with
Rodney Young spent a decade leading food and industrial manufacturing operations, and rose from the mill floor to plant manager before founding YIU. Meet Rodney →
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