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Eliminating Paper Improves Business Performance, Cultural Transformation

Boat maker transforms its approach to analyzing warranty situations by digitizing plant floor

Evan Miller
Mon, 12/05/2016 - 15:47
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Like many manufacturers, boat maker Smoker Craft has enormous amounts of data. The challenge, according to Quality Assurance Manager Dave Frey, was that all the data were on paper. All these bits and pieces of paper filled dozens of filing cabinets. Many man-hours were devoted to painstakingly digging through reams of handwritten sheets to find a relevant bit of data. Old information was archived in banker’s boxes and stored off-site. It was next to impossible to access the data in a timely manner.

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Dave Frey of Smoker Craft

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