kaizen Archives - Kent Elastomer Products

KEP Team Spotlight

by | May 21, 2020 | Leaderviews

Whole Team Spotlight This month we are pleased to put a well-deserved spotlight on the ENTIRE KEP team. As the world changed with a public health crisis, every single person on our team stepped in and stepped up to develop new products and solutions within nearly...

KEP Responds Successfully to COVID-19 Crisis

by | May 21, 2020 | Leaderviews

“All the work on leadership training, on communication training, on trust that we have worked so hard on in the last ten years was evident in this crisis.” By Bob ObornPresident, Kent Elastomer Products The Virus Hits the U.S.A. Like a lot of other people, I first...

Revisiting Our Order Entry Process

by | Feb 28, 2020 | Kaizen, Leaderviews

Revisiting Our Order Entry Process The order entry process has been refined several times since 2006 with positive changes being made to speed up the process, eliminate waste, and improve communication between the sales and production teams. However, in our ever...

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...