Breaking constraints in manufacturing performance
Unlock the True Potential already inside your operation.
Hagen helps manufacturers overcome real and perceived constraints, solve complex problems, and achieve sustained, quantifiable results without capital expenditure.
1990
Founded
500+
Projects
400+
Plants
23
Industries
17:1
Profit vs. Fees
The Hagen Approach
A methodology for finding the True Opportunity, solving to root cause, and building lasting capability.
HAGEN Results
Sustained, quantifiable results.
31%
Output increase
Extrusion
$1.5M annualized impact
$6M
Profit Increase
Bottling
$3.57M capacity + $2.5M inbound trucking
73%
Waste reduction
Plastics
$210K annualized savings
Different plants. Different constraints. Same business-changing results. Results are measured in financial terms across output, quality, waste, batching, reliability, and operating performance.
What We Do
Your people are the heroes of the story.
The Hagen Method® works through your Constraint Breaking Team. Together, we identify the highest-value opportunities, break the constraints that matter most, transfer the knowledge, and integrate the systems into your existing Continuous Improvement process so your team owns and sustains the results.
Make AI work for your operation.
Hagen AI combines manufacturing expertise and custom tools with Control Factor Analysis® and AI to uncover relationships between process variables and solve complex problems faster.
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Hagen has helped leading manufacturers overcome real and perceived constraints, solve difficult problems, and achieve sustainable gains without capital expenditure.
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HAGEN History
It started by questioning what manufacturers believed was possible.
Ian Thompson saw manufacturers defining their True Potential around constraints they assumed were fixed. Hagen was created to challenge those assumptions.
Those ideas grew into the Hagen Method®—combining financial clarity, rigorous problem solving, practical implementation and technology to help your people deliver and sustain improvement.
30%
Output increase on Hagen's first successful manufacturing project.
Founded in the UK. Working across continents.
One Hagen. Three offices.
Harrogate, United Kingdom · Founded in 1990
POC metrics remain subject to final verification before production publication.