As vice president of operations and supply chain, Bill Jones spearheaded what might be the biggest continuous-improvement project in the history of Warren Rupp Inc.'s Mansfield, Ohio, factory. The "Material-Flow Optimization," or MFO, project-a series of process improvements culminating in a redesign of the factory-floor layout-helped Warren Rupp Mansfield earn recognition as one of the 2012 IndustryWeek Best Plants. But when IndustryWeek visited the plant in November, Jones was in China, where he had taken on a new role and a new title-vice president of operations, East Asia-just a few weeks earlier. It's part of an initiative by parent company Idex Corp. to cultivate its homegrown talent, explains Warren Rupp President John Carter.
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