NuPrint Technologies adds new manufacturing manager

NuPrint Technologies recently enlisted the assistance of an independent productivity consultant and added the position of manufacturing manager to help the company take production to a new level of excellence.
 
Adam Kilgore, NuPrint’s new manufacturing manager has led the company in implementing a versatile production pull system with supportive production processes to move logical batch sizes in the right sequence through the operation to best meet delivery requirements. Kilgore’s system eliminates the question of what product to work next. Based on due date sensitivity, if it shows – it goes.
 
NuPrint and Kilgore’s next step was to direct their focus toward the common enemy of productivity: Variation – both process and executional variation. By reducing the process and the executional variation at every step of the operation, NuPrint is significantly reducing rework, scrap and shortening lead times. Step-by-step NuPrint is improving, validating, locking in the best methods, and tightening controls to reduce the band of noise (variation). The company has implemented additional employee training and improved documentation to standardize every step of its ongoing improvement cycle.
 
With rework percentages dropping significantly across the operation, NuPrint is constantly opening additional capacity. Its goal is to take quality and delivery to new heights as it continues the never-ending process of improvement. Kilgore is leading the company in aggressively undertaking the quotation listed at the bottom of its productivity advisor’s business card: “Aligning today’s actions to meet tomorrow’s expectations.”