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Who we are

Our manufacturing and warehousing specialists are qualified, industrial and manufacturing engineers with years of practical experience behind them.  They have backgrounds in: mass production process industries, assembly operations, machine shops, plastics, job shops.  Our services include:

New Facilities

If you are contemplating a new facility, we can help you:

    • Ascertain capacity needs through market research

    • Plan the equipment and labor needed to produce that capacity

    • Determine the financial payback

    • Lay out the plant and warehousing (see our article "Planning a Warehouse")

    • Procure the equipment and materials

    • Establish supply chain

    • Start up production

    • Train employees

Existing Operations

Our services in your existing facilities will depend upon your particular needs.  Typical services we perform are:
    • Review existing operation and identify areas for improvement

    • Install new or improve existing systems for measuring and tracking productivity

    • Install and conduct a cost reduction/productivity improvement program

    • Introduce Lean Six Sigma procedures into your organization

    • Speed up your supply chain

    • Improve inventory management

    • Improve space utilization ( see article "Adding Storage Space Without Leasing or Buying")

    • Scale operations to meet market demands

Industries Served

    • Plastics

    • Paper

    • Electronics

    • Metalworking

    • Mass produced, disposable plastic and paper goods

    • Distribution Centers

Case Histories

For some histories of actual projects, please visit our "Case Histories" page.

We operate under the philosophy that 90% of complex problems require simple solutions.


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Phone: (978) 681-8705, Fax: (978) 681-1807

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