improvements Archives - Kent Elastomer Products

Modifying Our Assembly Process

by | Feb 6, 2020 | Kaizen, Leaderviews

Modifying Our Assembly Process To ensure the quality of our products and reduce the potential for particulate in the assembly room at our Mogadore facility, we put together a Kaizen team to focus on improvements related specifically to cardboard debris. In the process...

Streamlined Color Matching System

by | Aug 23, 2019 | Kaizen, Leaderviews

Streamlined Color Matching System Over 200 color variations of natural rubber latex tubing are produced at our Kent, OH facility and are available to our customers. The color matching process starts in Kent with our compounding department and continues throughout the...

Little Changes, Big Savings

by | Aug 8, 2019 | Kaizen, Leaderviews

We recently held a Kaizen at our Mogadore facility to address upcoming required changes in component needs as well as a change in the tubing used in assembly. After identifying that the method for transporting, accounting and staging of assembly components was not as...