2023: A Year of Extraordinary Achievements
2023: A Year of Extraordinary Achievements
Let’s take a look back at 2023 and the Re:Build team’s outstanding accomplishments. Re:Build Optimation Reached a Safety Milestone, Re:Build CDI Exceeded Expectations on their Lean Transformation Journey, Re:Build Manufacturing Launched a New Corporate Website, Re:Build DAPR Launched a U.S.-Made Solar CZ Puller, Re:Build Fikst Moved to a New Facility, Re:Build Oribi Composites Launched a Line of Thermoplastic Composite Tubes, Re:Build AppliedLogix Achieved “First-Key-On” Success, Re:Build Manufacturing Broke Ground on a Regional and Manufacturing Site in New Kensington, PA
Lean Enterprise Institute Visits Re:Build CDI
November 15, 2023 – On Monday, October 23, Matt Savas and Josh Howell of the https://www.lean.org/about-lei/ Edit Edit Remove Remove Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) visited Re:Build CDI. LEI is a nonprofit based in Boston whose mission is to advance lean thinking and practices. It was founded in 1997 by https://www.lean.org/about-lei/senior-advisors-staff/james-womack/ Edit Edit Remove Remove James Womack, who co-authored The Machine that Changed the World and founded the lean movement. After visiting the Re:Build Re:Source center in Framingham, seeing the https://www.lean.org/about-lei/ Edit Edit Remove Remove Lean Transformation Roadmap board, and chatting with Miles Arnone, Re:Build’s CEO, and Bonnie Davis, Re:Build’s Chief Lean Officer, Matt and Josh wanted to understand more about CDI’s lean transformation process.
FIRST Robotics
Hollis, New Hampshire – Last school year, Re:Build Manufacturing made a generous donation to support the robotics team at the Hollis Brookline Middle School, located in Hollis, New Hampshire, where I mentor science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students. My daughter and twelve other students at the school registered for the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) robotics team and the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). Competing as team number 22760, it was the rookie year for the Navy Knights, and the season was incredibly fun, exciting, and rewarding for all thirty FTC participants.
New Kensington Update
I’m thrilled to share an update on the dynamic progress of our renovations at Re:Build’s 175,000 square foot site in the New Kensington Advanced Manufacturing Park. We’ve marked another milestone in fulfilling our mission to create a revitalized, thriving, sustainable U.S. manufacturing base. Phase 1 of the physical transformation at New Ken is well underway, owing in large part to our partnership with the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwest Pennsylvania (RIDC) and Mascaro Construction. Two out of four buildings have undergone a successful partial renovation. Outdated elements—old concrete, electrical wiring, and energy-inefficient windows—are now history. We’re pressure-washing, repairing roofs and masonry, and preparing a concrete foundation that’s over a foot thick, a testament to our commitment to excellence from the ground up.
The Re:Build Origin Story
By Miles Arnone — I’m often asked how Re:Build Manufacturing got its start. Like many businesses’ origin story, it contains personal and professional elements. The personal aspect goes back more than thirty-five years, when Jeff Wilke was growing up in Pittsburgh, which was beginning to decline as an industrial mecca, and I was in high school. We both were concerned about the degradation of the U.S. manufacturing base (yes, this is what I was thinking about as a teenager!), which at that time was struggling to compete with Japan. No one was worried about China as a competitor in the late 1980s or early 1990s. In any case, ultimately those changes led us both, and several other early and current Re:Builders, to apply (and miraculously be accepted) to a graduate program at MIT called, “Leaders for Manufacturing.” The idea of the program was to equip engineering-centric professionals with the management and leadership skills necessary to drive improvements in the U.S. manufacturing ecosystem.
