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RPI doubles manufacturing space

Aug 25, 2008 3:27 PM

RPI (Seattle) has doubled its manufacturing floorspace to meet increased orders for personalized products such as greeting cards, photo books and calendars. By adding 30,000 sq. ft. and reconfiguring the physical workflow in the factory to incorporate lean manufacturing principles, RPI has increased its ability to meet its partners’ tight timelines and still achieve a 99 percent accuracy rate while maintaining high quality standards.

“The incorporation of lean manufacturing techniques is yet another differentiator for RPI,” says CEO John Perez. “These business practices boost overall partner value by improving the quality of production through more efficiency, less waste and flow automation. Additional factory space, better space planning and work processes have increased our overall efficiency and capacity without increasing costs.”

Now occupying 58,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space, RPI is the largest digital printer on the West Coast, operating 22 digital presses capable of generating more than 20 million pages of high quality color output per month.





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