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...Lean Manufacturing concepts.
OEM a shop that specializes in fabricating components and assemblies for more than 80 heavy equipment manufacturers across 20 industries, primarily the oil patch, oil exploration, power generation, and crane industries.
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Serving that many customers and meeting production runs from one to 250 units per run, welding operators at OEM had to change welding processes, wires, gases, and other variables to accommodate each new product run.
The inefficiencies created by these changeovers, however, didn't mesh well with the company's philosophy.
"Our goal is to be an extension of our customers," Scott Exner, manufacturing engineer, said. "We provide the services and products that they choose not to manufacture internally. They need to be able to come to us and receive a quality product, on time, at a fair price."
That's why the company adopted a "rule of ones" welding system--one process, one gas, one wire, one gun--as part of its implementation of Lean Manufacturing.
With Q-Guns and Centerfire consumables from Bernard, Beecher, IL, OEM reduced its downtime and expanded its welding operation two to three times its size since implementing...
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