Company Overview
Ebara Pumps Americas Corporation, located in Rock Hill, SC, manufactures engineered pumps, pump products, and related services for the water, wastewater, commercial, municipal, energy, and power industries. Recognizing the continued strain on water and wastewater facilities and infrastructures with increased maintenance, energy and environmental demands and costs, EBARA Pumps Americas Corporation strives to deploy the best water, wastewater pumps, pump products, and technologies to meet these requirements.
Situation
Ebara Pumps was looking for ISO support services. The company has customers that require them to attain and maintain registration to ISO standards. Failure to do so would result in the company losing critical business.
Solution
The company engaged SCMEP resources to deliver ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 support services including auditing, regulatory compliance reviews, noise sampling, and environmental health and safety. Services delivered by SCMEP resources ensured that the company’s three ISO systems were compliant, certification was maintained, and sales were retained.
Ebara Pumps is also an active member of SCMEP’s OpExChange program. OpExChange is a unique peer-to-peer network of companies dedicated to achieving greater levels of operational excellence. Through shared learning and collaboration, member companies exchange ideas, expertise, and advice in areas such as lean manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and leadership to accelerate their pace of change, increase their competitiveness, and maintain the gains. The company’s involvement in this group has resulted in the adoption of operational improvements which ensued cost savings and led to investments in new plant equipment, new products and processes, and workforce practices.
Results
Retained sales – $10,000,000
Cost savings – $10,000
New investment (plant equipment) – $50,000
New investment (workforce practices) – $30,000
Investment savings – $10,000
New investment (new products/processes) – $50,000
“I appreciate the support I have received from SCMEP over the years. The wealth of knowledge and services that have been provided has helped my organization immensely. I always recommend SCMEP to other colleagues I come in contact with.”
Kris Brown, Quality Manager