Command Medical Products of Ormond Beach, Florida, is a medical-device manufacturer that designs, manufactures, assembles, and packages disposable medical devices such as intravenous tubing, blood bags, IV bags, and catheters. Command Medical initiated its journey into lean manufacturing to improve manufacturing processes in order to maintain its competitiveness in the global marketplace.

Command Medical hired HPK Group to provide lean-manufacturing training workshops and to facilitate its first kaizen event, which involved the extrusion of medical tubing along with the assembly of a clamp to control flow and a spike for connection to other medical devices.

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