With a business strategy firmly rooted in continuous improvement, Lex Products creates opportunity and controls their own destiny.
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hether it’s a military base camp or field hospital, the summer’s biggest concert or on the set of the next
blockbuster film, in the aftermath of a natural disaster or on a construction site, Lex Products provides power distribution and control systems to the most demanding markets. So, when your company tagline is, “We Deliver the Power,” you’d better! Lex President, Michael Scala, explained the Lex philosophy of quality and reliability when speaking recently to a group of his peers at a Connecticut Manufacturing Coalition Roundtable, “Our focus is to design and build portable power systems to deliver electrical power when and where it is needed. It could be free, but if my customers don’t get it in time, it is of no value. And quality is simply the price of admission - if we kill our customers, they won’t buy from us again.” In 2005, the focus on quality and on-time delivery was intensified. Lex acquired a sheet metal fabricator and was selected as the sole supplier of portable power distribution units for the US Marines; the need to standardize processes, increase efficiency and open floor space in support of increased production was critical. Lex turned to Lean Manufacturing and through the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development’s Aerospace and Defense Initiative, took advantage of funding to support implementation of
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