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Cascade Engineering’s expertise in Lean improvement, production systems, and sustainable business practices are creating sustainable futures in healthcare, industrial, commercial, and automotive markets. Cascade engineering, a leader ins engineered plastic systems and components, is shaping innovative ideas through lean practices. These practices allow us to deliver measurable value to our customers quickly and in the “least waste way”.

One way we deliver results is by using our proven Cascade Engineering Production System (CEPS). CEPS is rooted in our long-term vision, values and principles, intimate knowledge of the customer, disciplined approach and visually explicit processes. We achieve results by building quality into the process, employing “just-in-time” techniques and relentlessly pursuing continuous improvement through the involvement of our people and partners. We strive to provide the right product, at the right time, and at the right place and cost.

We are able to achieve such impressive results by utilizing existing proven methods, and by having processes in place that help us learn from our successes and failures. This enables us to pin point changes required at all levels within the company so that we can continuously get better. Some of our strategies include the execution of the Shingo Enterprise Assessment. We also utilize proprietary internal Lean Assessments, Value Stream workshops, and Kaizen events to help us improve. Finally, every employee's insight into what needs to be improved is important too, so we actively seek their input through a variety of “lightening posts” to ensure that we do not leave a rock "unturned." These ideas, along with the many other activities are managed through our continuous improvement Heijunka^TM methodology, to ensure that improvements are sustained.


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