Built to Grow: Scaling a Powder Coating Business
Adam Swift, Head of Operations at Powder Coating Technologies in Plymouth, Minnesota, knows what it takes to keep a growing shop under control. The company has more than 30 years in the business, runs short production runs of heavy, bulky parts, and operates what it calls the largest curing oven in the Twin Cities metro. For a long time, though, it ran on manual filing systems. Lead times were a hope, not a number. Checking a job’s status or how much powder was on hand meant getting up and walking out to the floor. Now jobs, quoting, inventory and customer communication all live in one place. Lead times can be measured and planned around, and leadership can look at the whole business or drill down to what’s happening on the floor today.
What he’ll get into:
- Going from manual files and floor walks to end-to-end visibility across the office and the shop
- Turning lead times from a guess into a number you can plan and quote around
- Keeping customers informed without the phone tag, with status updates they can act on quickly
- Building systems that grow with the shop instead of slowing it down
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