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MEP Success Stories from Kansas

Aligning Leadership

Reported Year
2024
Trimac Industrial Systems was struggling to find their way through the chaos of growth and getting priorities of the company aligned.

Hazardous Waste Management

Reported Year
2024
Due to recent staffing changes, SOR Controls Group required assistance with ensuring regulatory compliance for hazardous waste management and disposal practices at its facility. SOR uses products such as thread lockers, paints, sealants and epoxy, and electrical potting materials. These include various hazardous chemicals such as ketones, phenols

Crafting Futures: The Machinist Apprenticeship

Reported Year
2024
Machine Design Services is a small business. For a small machining manufacturer with limited resources and a small employee headcount, every day brings a unique set of challenges. With a lean team, each member wears multiple hats, juggling tasks from design to production to customer service. Machine Design Services needed a method to obtain new

Leadership Training Can Drive Company Growth

Reported Year
2023
General Manager Doug Wilson was having the same challenges many other manufacturers are experiencing, hiring and retaining employees, and ensuring optimal productivity. Rather than initially focusing on front-line employees, Doug recognized that effective leadership plays a pivotal role in shaping the workplace culture and influencing recruitment

A Growth Plan in Uncertain Times

Reported Year
2021
As with many small companies, time limitations make the most pressing needs leadership's focus. Planning for the future, especially in the middle of a global pandemic, may not have appeared to be MSA's most pressing need, but a majority of their business was with one client. Although a multi-year contract was in place there was always a risk of

COVID Pandemic Spurs Employee Handbook Updates

Reported Year
2021
SOR needed to make sure its policies were current given the changes with employment law because of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), as well as confirm the policies were legally sound. When the COVID-19 pandemic started, the unknown implications of the virus on

The Optimal Facility Layout

Reported Year
2024
Summit Truck Bodies purchased a new facility and sought expertise in optimal facility layout. The company requested expertise from KMS, part of the MEP National Network™, to provide insights, best practices, efficiencies, and challenge their assumptions.

Project Management Success

Reported Year
2024
United Rotary Brush was in need of help with a large, tactical detailed strategic plan and execution for their plant move from Lenexa to Olathe, KS. United Rotary Brush consolidated two buildings into one after lease ended for both locations. The Director of Supply Chain Management for United Rotary Brush relied on Kansas Manufacturing Solutions

Significant Benefits Through Lean Six Sigma Training

Reported Year
2024
Amarr was grappling with significant operational challenges that impacted its overall performance and efficiency, including pervasive inefficiencies and disorganization, which obstructed smooth operations, and a lack of data-driven decision-making, leaving strategic choices uninformed. Also, the company suffered from extensive machine downtime and
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