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Lean Manufacturing
CPI Lean Vision
“We have made a firm commitment to lean manufacturing and have begun the process of transforming our company, both in our manufacturing and business processes. Only by striving to be better everyday can we provide quality products and superior value to our customers and provide continued growth to our investors.”
Edward Fred
President & CEO
Our Commitment to Lean Manufacturing
CPI Aero is committed to Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing. We are transforming our business by re-designing our processes to eliminate waste and improve efficiency. We believe that this commitment to excellence and continuous improvement is a key component to success in our core Aerospace and Defense markets.
Our leadership team has been instrumental in driving our Lean culture transformation and an appetite for change in every area of our facility. We are developing key metrics to help us to monitor the health of our business and manufacturing processes on a daily basis. These tools as well as many others are an integral part of our new “visual factory” that allows managers, supervisors and employees to quickly see the status of our operations and to react to challenges quickly and efficiently.
Notable achievements include a company wide 5S competition that has resulted in an average increase in cleanliness, organization and safety of over 30%. We have also implemented Andon lights in all of our production work cells to allow us to visually monitor the status and productivity of each one throughout the manufacturing process. In addition, we have begun using Kanban inventory replenishment techniques to make sure that our highly skilled labor force has the material it needs when they need it.
At CPI Aero our “Lean Journey” is well under way and already yielding very big returns for our business. We are committed to undertaking process improvements which not only increase our productivity and efficiency but make sure that everything that we do has a positive impact on our bottom line. We strongly believe that our efforts will give us a valuable competitive edge in our core markets and will be the key to long term success and prosperity for our organization.
