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Over the last 20 years, Current Industries has been continually improving processes. Improvement methods include: lean manufacturing, process re-engineering, team management, Malcolm Baldrige, JIT, quality improvement storyboards, Kaizen, and others. Our production teams utilize one-piece flow whenever possible.
The benefits of one-piece flow include:
- quick detection of defects, to prevent large batches of bad parts
- short production lead times
- lower material and inventory costs
Current Industries' CEO, John Butorac, has been an examiner for the Washington State Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award, and has presented Kaizen and Kanban at Western Washington University for the past 5 years.
Current Industries has an ongoing commitment to quality throughout the company. We meet this commitment through:
- defect-free work on-time and complete deliveries
- empowered employees who actively pursue improvements in existing processes and provide input into new ones ensuring that all employees have the necessary skills and technology to perform quality work
- monitoring the performance indicators that measure our continuous improvement efforts
- establishing partnerships with suppliers who meet our quality expectations
- frequent communications with customers, to ensure their needs and expectations are met
- standardizing only value-added activities to eliminate waste implementation of poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) strategies
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