Ipsen, Inc., welcomes a new year of growth and expansion at its U.S. plant locations, having just completed a yearlong project in developing, designing, and constructing a new stockroom and inventory management system.
With its new material management system it is able to realize dramatic improvements beneficial for both internal and external customers through material flow, bar coding, and staging areas. Inventory activities in receiving, inspection, and multi-releases to the floor and shipping will be monitored and measured for continuous improvements to assure high on-time performance. The overall project began with the expansion of “hot zone” manufacturing at its Souderton, Pennsylvania, facility.
This not only increased its ability to expand its manufacturing capacity but created the space necessary to improve its material management in order to achieve greater performance with furnace production at both sites. Prior to the expansion the company was manufacturing six to eight hot zones per month at the Rockford, Illinois, facility. Now, at the Souderton facility, it will have the ability to achieve double the manufacturing capability.
In addition, a section of the Ipsen Ceramics facility in Pecatonica, Illinois, is currently being used for the assembling of large custom hot zones. It has become a fully functional assembly facility, including new loading and unloading doors and dock driveway area, creating a significant capital improvement to the existing structure.
Ipsen designs and manufactures industrial vacuum furnaces, atmosphere furnaces, and supervisory control systems for a wide variety of thermal processing markets including aerospace, commercial heat treating, medical, nuclear, chemical, tool and die and automotive. Ipsen is one of the largest manufacturers in the world of vacuum and atmosphere heat treating furnaces for the thermal processing market. Ipsen also employs the largest and most skilled aftermarket and service support team in the business to meet its customers’ needs for controls upgrades, replacement hot zones, parts, maintenance, and service.
To learn more call (815) 332-4941 or go to [www.ipsenusa.com].
