Expanding Capacity Without Compromise: Redesigning the Operation for What’s Next

Walk through our facility today and you'll see a manufacturing operation in transition.

Construction is underway and spaces are changing. Equipment is being installed and expanded capabilities are coming online.

You'll also see customer work continuing to move.

That's an important part of this transformation. We're not simply expanding our operation. We're redesigning how it works while continuing to deliver the work our customers depend on today.

Building Tomorrow While Delivering Today

Redesigning an active manufacturing facility means working around an operation already in motion.

Equipment has to be moved and installed around existing work. Spaces and workflows change as teams coordinate to keep projects moving safely and efficiently.

Customer schedules don't stop because construction starts. Neither do our expectations for quality and performance.

We're redesigning tomorrow's operation while executing today's work.

That ability to adapt while maintaining the standard is exactly the kind of flexibility we're building for the future.

Designing Around How Work Happens

The expansion gives us an opportunity to rethink more than where equipment goes. It allows us to look at how work moves through the facility.

How far does a tool travel between operations? How much time is spent looking for what's needed? Are tools and resources located where the work happens?

Those details matter.

We're creating more intentional, consistent work areas that reduce unnecessary movement and improve flow. 6S reinforces this as we create an organized, standardized environment where people can work safely and efficiently as we grow.

Every unnecessary step we eliminate creates productive capacity.

Building Capability Into the Operation

New technology expands what that redesigned operation can do.

Advanced machining capabilities give us more options for large, complex and schedule-critical work. With the right programming and setup, some equipment can operate beyond staffed production hours, helping us make better use of available machine time.

Expanded injection molding capability allows us to support more of the tooling process within our operation, including trying out the tools we build here.

Adding equipment is only part of the equation. The bigger opportunity is designing an operation where capabilities, processes and people work together efficiently.

Growing Alongside the Operation

As the operation changes, our team is developing with it.

New technology requires new knowledge, from programming and setup to planning, process development and problem-solving. Keeping work moving also requires coordination across engineering, machining, project management, maintenance and manufacturing.

Technology creates potential. People turn that potential into performance.

Our team is developing new skills and new ways of working while continuing to deliver for customers.

What We're Really Building

Eventually, customers won't see construction when they walk through our doors. They'll see what it created.

More capability and better flow. More intentional work areas with people and technology working together as part of a stronger manufacturing operation.

That's the bigger story behind our transformation.

We're redesigning the operation so we can take on more without compromising the performance, quality and delivery our customers depend on.

We're building tomorrow while delivering today. That's expanding capacity without compromise.

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