kvi Employee Directory

Since 1985, KVI has been providing design and build services to one of the company's esteemed medical product customers serving the personal care industry. They rely on the company to provide ease of manufacturing input to their designs as well as trouble shoot the actual applications. In essence, "KVI makes it work! After 15 years, the company wer... e posed with a challenge to design and build tooling for a new production line that would revolutionize the manufacturing of their product. First the company developed the prototype tools, then in a partnership effort with the company's customer, the company produced the first high volume production tooling unit. The company's challenge was to cut a paper product laminated with plastic, cleanly with no residual fibers left on the finished product. The company had to produce near perfect tooling with zero cutting clearance. All 160 tooling assemblies had to have interchangeable components. The company's customer asked how long each die would last. The true answer was that the company did not know since the company were broaching new horizons with the design. Combining the correct materials and hardening specifications with ultra precision production methods, KVI successfully produced the tooling to meet the company's customer's needs at a pace that exceeded their delivery requirements. All units produced were successfully integrated into the production lines, resulting in a successful, on schedule, product launch. Furthermore, the success of this design increased the company's customer's output five times, resulting in operating cost savings. The company's name still remains on banners throughout the company's customer's large manufacturing facility for being a key contributor to their product's success.Read More