Some Quick Steps to Saving Big Money

A key element of lean is eliminating waste, and contaminated product certainly is waste.

According to Jay LeCoque, CEO of Celsis International Ltd., rapid screening technology can be used on raw materials, WIP and finished goods to reduce contamination and free up a significant amount of working capital. How significant? Try $400,000—and that’s at one plant over the course of the first year.

Now before we go any further, you need to know that LeCoque’s company produces rapid microbial systems for detecting contamination in consumer-bound pharmaceuticals, home and personal care products and beverages, so he has a vested interest in spreading good words about rapid testing methods. Nonetheless, he backs up his claims by citing the experience of such industry behemoths as Procter & Gamble and Unilever. LeCoque’s bylined article can be found at IndustryWeek.com