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Quality, All Day
Southbend was subject to lengthy third-party inspection of its export products, resulting in sluggish shipping times and dissatisfied customers. IES Solution: ISO 9001 certification
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Closing the Gaps: United Plastics Corporation Renews Focus On Quality
An outdated quality management system threatened the business relationships of United Plastics, an automotive industry supplier. ISO Overview Training from Industry Expansion Solutions helped realize annual cost savings of approximately $100,000, >$1m new investment.
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Designing a Flow for Growth
At SynTec, a manufacturer of state-of-the-art school bus seats, an overcrowded manufacturing facility posed potential safety hazards for workers. IES Industrial Engineering Services were able to eliminate congestion and increase production units while decreasing overtime hours.
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NC DHHS Creates Lean Facilitator Team
NC DHHS wanted a cost-efficient way to deploy Lean tools throughout the entire organization IES Solution Lean Facilitator Certification Benefits Lean Facilitator-led kaizens across the state have resulted in improved timeliness and accuracy in ten different counties.
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Making Safety Count
Cascades Tissue’s heavy industrial work environment, by its very nature, poses risks to its employees. Management wanted to take every opportunity recognize and eliminate risks on the facility floor.
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Richmond County Improves Customer Care with Lean
In 2015, Richmond County was invited to participate in the Department of Health and Human Services sponsored Lean Improvement Initiative. Within the Richmond County Department of Social Services (DSS), all customer inquiry calls are routed to the Customer Care Center (CCU). Richmond County DSS signed on with the goal of improving its customer inquiry resolution […]
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Rock Steady
After 70 years, the Minerals Research Laboratory remains a pioneer. In 1946, when the Tennessee Valley Authority and NC State’s College of Engineering worked together to fund the Minerals Research Laboratory, they probably wouldn’t have guessed that their new building would one day be located in Asheville’s trendiest neighborhood.
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Small Shop, Big Results
Oowee Products, a small manufacturer of specialty beverage accessories, started as a hobby in its founder’s home workshop; as it grew, the company needed to standardize its processes and streamline its operations.
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Commonwealth Brands Congratulates Its 20 New Lean Leader Green Belts
Business acquisitions bring numerous changes, both small and large. For Reidsville-based Commonwealth Brands, one of the biggest changes following its 2009 acquisition by British parent company Imperial Brands was the implementation of a facility-wide Organizational Excellence Program, or OEP.
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