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Rick Thaler

Rick Thaler has grown his company from $2 to 8.5 million through automation and lean manufacturing. His career has given him experience in residential and commercial work, and in modernizing and automating shops. Since purchasing his own company, he has strategically invested in machinery and focused on building a quality organization using Lean as his development tool.  He uses the Theory of Constraints for purchasing decisions—determining how it will elevate the production system as a whole, not merely local improvement.

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