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MEP Success Stories from Kansas

The Optimal Facility Layout

Reported Year
2024
Summit Truck Bodies purchased a new facility and sought expertise in optimal facility layout. The company requested expertise from KMS, part of the MEP National Network™, to provide insights, best practices, efficiencies, and challenge their assumptions.

Aligning Leadership

Reported Year
2024
Trimac Industrial Systems was struggling to find their way through the chaos of growth and getting priorities of the company aligned.

Project Management Success

Reported Year
2024
United Rotary Brush was in need of help with a large, tactical detailed strategic plan and execution for their plant move from Lenexa to Olathe, KS. United Rotary Brush consolidated two buildings into one after lease ended for both locations. The Director of Supply Chain Management for United Rotary Brush relied on Kansas Manufacturing Solutions

Hazardous Waste Management

Reported Year
2024
Due to recent staffing changes, SOR Controls Group required assistance with ensuring regulatory compliance for hazardous waste management and disposal practices at its facility. SOR uses products such as thread lockers, paints, sealants and epoxy, and electrical potting materials. These include various hazardous chemicals such as ketones, phenols

Significant Benefits Through Lean Six Sigma Training

Reported Year
2024
Amarr was grappling with significant operational challenges that impacted its overall performance and efficiency, including pervasive inefficiencies and disorganization, which obstructed smooth operations, and a lack of data-driven decision-making, leaving strategic choices uninformed. Also, the company suffered from extensive machine downtime and

A Strategic Roadmap for Manufacturing Excellence

Reported Year
2024
Industrial Metal Fabrication had witnessed a downturn in operations. Factors such as economic downturn, shifts in market demands, transitioning of family ownership, intensified competition, and the absence of a strategic roadmap had profoundly affected this family-owned enterprise. This downturn in business led to a decrease in revenue and business

Crafting Futures: The Machinist Apprenticeship

Reported Year
2024
Machine Design Services is a small business. For a small machining manufacturer with limited resources and a small employee headcount, every day brings a unique set of challenges. With a lean team, each member wears multiple hats, juggling tasks from design to production to customer service. Machine Design Services needed a method to obtain new

Leadership Training Can Drive Company Growth

Reported Year
2023
General Manager Doug Wilson was having the same challenges many other manufacturers are experiencing, hiring and retaining employees, and ensuring optimal productivity. Rather than initially focusing on front-line employees, Doug recognized that effective leadership plays a pivotal role in shaping the workplace culture and influencing recruitment

Rapid Plant Assessment Provides Excellence Roadmap

Reported Year
2023
As a smart business owner, seeking ways to improve bottom-line performance is always advantageous and is something Curtis Machine Company President, John Curtis, wants to do. Curtis Machine is known for its outstanding quality and has the certifications to prove it, but more focus on this element can provide new efficiencies and ways to cut costs

Peppermint Workshop Ramps Up With Lean Six Sigma

Reported Year
2023
As a new manufacturing organization, Bess wanted to ensure her business was operating as efficiently as possible. She needed support to understand how to maximize production, create a structured manufacturing process, eliminate waste, and increase productivity and throughput. Peppermint Workshop contacted Kansas Manufacturing Solutions, part of the