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MEP Success Stories from Arkansas

Driving Growth Through Innovation: Push Plastics' Journey to Success

Reported Year
2024
Push Plastic recognized the need to establish a quality management system (QMS) to ensure continued growth and maintain the highest standards of product quality. As the company prepared to scale its operations, they wanted to better understand the requirements and best practices of ISO 9001:2015 to guide their QMS development and implementation. To

Harnessing Cobot Technology to Enhance Workforce Efficiency and Competitiveness

Reported Year
2024
Poly-Tech Plastic Molding, Inc. faced challenges with workforce retention, operational efficiency, and the ability to adapt to increasing demands in the plastics manufacturing industry. To remain competitive, the company recognized the need for advanced technology that could support growth, streamline repetitive tasks, and enhance production

TIGG - Newterra Growth Journey in Heber Springs. Arkansas

Reported Year
2024
High demand for water purification of emerging chemicals by municipalities in the US has increased demand and lead times. The Heber Springs facility was limited by staffing and some process equipment. As they overcame one hurdle, another constraint appeared. The parent company was interested in investing in the growth, but needed a capacity model

Lean Manufacturing Training Triples Production While Eliminating Overtime

Reported Year
2024
WWBeds facility in North Little Rock, Arkansas, was struggling to meet their customer demand due to material and work flow issues, process layout, limited space, excessive overtime, and not knowing which issues to work on. Leadership turned to AMS, part of the MEP National Network™, for help.

Leader Starter Kata and Training Within Industry Job Instruction Help Company Achieve Business Improvement in Less Than Eight Months

Reported Year
2024
The plant anticipated a need to increase its production capability due to continued strong demand for metallic stearate. The automated process of the business continued to be highly dependable, but there was a need to strengthen its leadership aspect to meet the changing labor dynamics. While lean manufacturing concepts had been introduced in early

Building Better Bikes in America

Reported Year
2023
Allied Cycle works is competing directly with offshore manufacturing. They need to take advantage of anything that will give them the edge with efficiency, which means adding automation. Sam Pickman, one of the founders of Allied, enlisted Ben VandeHoef, with Phillips Corporation, an AEDC- Arkansas Manufacturing Solutions automation partner, to

Toyota KATA Methodology Helped Transform the Xpress Boats Team

Reported Year
2023
Xpress Boats, located in Hot Springs, Arkansas, could not keep up with the demand for their boats even before COVID. Dealers from around the country have been on a restricted allocation for several years and when the COVID epidemic did hit, the demand for their boats surged. This demand has been consistent and has continued to increase yearly. The

Power Technology, Inc ExporTech Success

Reported Year
2023
Power Technology, Inc. was a small laser manufacturer that only exported to a couple of companies. Leadership felt the company needed a purposeful, strategic plan to export their products to more countries, and, more importantly, to the right countries. For help they turned to AMS, part of the MEP National Network™.

Leader Starter Kata Provides Method and Framework to Success

Reported Year
2023
According to Vice President Doug Vick, "To be honest, we were quite happy with our operation. We only began exploring the Toyota Kata model out of curiosity and to maybe pick the brains of observers outside of our paradigm." For guidance Alweld's leadership turned to the experts at AEDC AMS, part of the MEP National Network™.