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Show Us Your Shop
A walk through Advanced Cabinet Systems' integrated production operations
By Bill Esler
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Whitney Bowers Pyle, Vice President, Advanced Cabinet Systems, Marion, Ohio.

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Phil Bowers, president, Advanced Cabinet Systems, Marion, Ohio.

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Advanced Cabinet Systems has integrated design and estimating applications at its Marion, Indiana, operation to its production machinery. A labeling scheme keeps project components organized as material flows through the plant.  

Advanced Cabinet developed its Division 12 cabinet specification as part of a strategic plan to grow its business in the segment, and to be able to  handle fabrication and fulfillment with great speed and precision. It was built in coordination with adoption of  LEAN manufacturing processes, and an automated, integrated Enterprise Resource Planning System.

Much of the software was developed internally by a team including plant engineering manager Tim Hanson, programmer Aaron Hanson, and Kyle Rennaker, marketing manager.

Incorporating parametric modeling of hundreds of cabinet designs, the Division 12 specification for Arcom MasterSpec represents Advanced Cabinet Systems own automation of its estimating and production workflow systems.

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Bill Esler | ConfSenior Editor

Bill wrote for WoodworkingNetwork.com, FDMC and Closets & Organized Storage magazines. 

Bill's background includes more than 10 years in print manufacturing management, followed by more than 30 years in business reporting on industrial manufacturing in the forest products industries, including printing and packaging at American Printer (Features Editor) and Graphic Arts Monthly (Editor in Chief) magazines; and in secondary wood manufacturing for WoodworkingNetwork.com.

Bill was deeply involved with the launches of the Woodworking Network Leadership Forum, and the 40 Under 40 Awards programs. He currently reports on technology and business trends and develops conference programs.

In addition to his work as a journalist, Bill supports efforts to expand and improve educational opportunities in the manufacturing sectors, including 10 years on the Print & Graphics Scholarship Foundation; six years with the U.S. WoodLinks; and currently on the Woodwork Career Alliance Education Committee. He is also supports the Greater West Town Training Partnership Woodworking Program, which has trained more than 950 adults for industrial wood manufacturing careers. 

Bill volunteers for Foinse Research Station, a biological field station staddling the border of Ireland and Northern Ireland, one of more than 200 members of the Organization of Biological Field Stations.

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