- Late backlog$15M → $6M
- On-time delivery53% → 92%
- Revenue recovered$12M in Q1
- Timeline10 weeks
Manufacturing plant recovery
The 5-10-20 method, used in 100+ recoveries across medical, defense, aerospace, and Tier-1 automotive.
Most plant breakdowns are not caused by suppliers. Not by demand peaks. Not by geopolitics. They are self-created, and they follow a formula.
Then one external shock:
And the formula breaks the plant.
We solve the formula. Not the shock.
Twenty years of plant recoveries, compressed into one book.
Every recovery follows the same sequence. We stopped keeping it in our heads and wrote it down: the diagnostic questions, the week-by-week rhythm, the mistakes that cost us the first ten years, the five conditions we now refuse to work without.
If you are the one the board is looking at when the plant stops shipping, this is the book to read before your next Monday.
Read by 3,000+ operations leaders in medical, defense, aerospace, and Tier-1 automotive.
Client names redacted for confidentiality. Verifiable references available on request.
Unedited references from ex-clients
Frederic is not your typical consultant. He thinks like a strategist and executes like a plant manager.
We ran two complex projects together:
Both hit their business case.
The thing you don't see on the résumé: he can walk into a room of angry stakeholders on a bad day and walk out with a plan everyone commits to.
That is a rare skill.
If you have a difficult plant that has to work, and has to work fast, Frederic is the operator I would call first.
Manufacturing turnarounds don't happen in conference rooms. They happen on the floor, on Gemba. That's where B2G's office is.
Fred and his team work directly in the operation, alongside the people who actually run the business. They identify the real issues, build practical solutions, and most importantly execute those solutions in a way that holds after they leave.
If your manufacturing operation needs more than a report, if you need experienced people in the operation driving results, I strongly recommend Fred and his team.
We acquired a medical device plant in Santo Domingo that looked clean on paper. Six months in, the backlog was at +10,000 units and customers were escalating to the board.
Frederic and his team were on the floor within a week. Twelve weeks later the backlog was under 700 units, and our two largest customers had stopped calling us, not because they gave up, but because we were shipping.
He doesn't confuse activity with progress. He fixes the two or three things that actually move the P&L and ignores the rest.
If you have a plant in your portfolio that has to be recovered before the next board meeting, Frederic is the operator I would put on it.
Three phases. One rhythm. One outcome.
On the shop floor within 5 business days. Senior operators only. No juniors.
2–4 senior operators embedded on-site. Daily rhythm. Weekly recovery targets.
We rebuild the routines that make the recovery hold after we leave.
Five conditions agreed before we set foot in the plant.
Not to protect me. To protect you.
So decisions move in hours, not weeks.
No matrix. No silos. Clear ownership, from shop floor to boardroom.
So recovery is real, not accounting. Cost comes back after the plant works, not before.
Trust is rebuilt in the open. We reach out to them directly, on your behalf, from week one.
Your team owns the outcome, not us. We leave when the recovery holds without us.
Nine senior operators across four continents. Average 20+ years on the shop floor.
No juniors. No analysts. No pyramid.
Engagement Director

Turnaround & Operational Excellence PMO

Manufacturing & Quality Excellence Lead

Manufacturing Operations Lead

Lean Manufacturing Lead

Interim Plant Management Lead

Turnaround Digital Solutions Lead

Lean Operations & Supply Chain Lead

Logistics & Material Management Lead
Operators from our team have led recoveries at:






On-site within 5 business days worldwide.
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