NCS Solutions Transform Manufacturing Process, Receives Provisional Patent for Lean Manufacturing

NCS Solutions Inc., serving faith-based organizations for more than 100 years through its manufacturing of offering envelopes set out to transform their process and business by moving away from Batch Manufacturing to Lean Manufacturing. The new process is so innovative and unique that today, NCS has filed a provisional patent for its Lean Manufacturing Process.

The century-old manufacturer, NCS, requires a manufacturing process that can efficiently manage large amounts of variable data from its church clients including names, addresses, unique identifiers, and barcodes at very high speeds.

"Working with Xerox Corporation, NCS developed a printing process for envelopes that was truly something that had never been done before," said Doug Wright, President and CEO of NCS.  "Many technical challenges with data and functionality had to be overcome.  The result was something so innovative, that we obtained a provisional patent for the new process."