Cost-Saving Measures — Save a Buck, Save a Job

• Offer customers discounts for managing to your production schedule.

Improving plant productivity is the name of the game, according to Hal Ettinger, president of RBE Co. in Lawrence, KS. “Unlike cuts in staffing and services to cut operational costs, improving plant productivity cuts operating costs by driving more profit to the bottom line, which accomplishes the same thing,” he remarks.