Manufacturing Safety: How to Create a Safer Controlled Environment
What is Manufacturing Safety? Manufacturing safety is the practice of protecting people, equipment, materials, and production processes inside a controlled, permanent work environment. Unlike work that changes from site to site, manufacturing relies on repeatable tasks, fixed machinery, organized material flow, and consistent production schedules. That consistency creates opportunities to build stronger safeguards, improve […]
Core Values Recognition Program: How We Build Culture
The Behaviors We Recognize Every quarter at Form Off-Site Solutions, we challenge our team to recognize coworkers who consistently live our core values. Nominations highlight teammates who: Put safety first by protecting those around them. Delivered quality, reliability, and results through dependable execution. Demonstrated innovation as a mandate by improving processes and solving problems. […]
What Makes a Manufacturing Engineering Standard in Fabrication
The term “standard” gets used a lot, but most of the time it still comes down to how the last job was run or who is on the team. That works until it doesn’t. In a traditional workflow, each job finds its own path. Teams rely on experience to fill informational gaps, while critical details […]
JE Dunn Construction Introduces Form Off-Site Solutions to Expand Manufacturing Capabilities
Form Off-Site Solutions™ by JE Dunn launched as an off-site manufacturing company specializing in Design for Manufacturing (DfM) for complex construction components. Drawing from JE Dunn’s storied 100-year legacy in Kansas City and across the country, off-site manufacturing has been a focus for the company since 2021. Led by Off-Site Manufacturing Director Nick Effenheim, the Form team leverages skilled craftspeople, advanced automation, and innovative strategies to design and produce specialized components for owners, […]
Innovative Solutions Through Off-Site Manufacturing
As an authentic partner of JE Dunn Construction, Form Off-Site Solutions is dedicated to first understanding your purpose and goals, and then delivering innovative solutions with certainty of results. Through JE Dunn’s robust suite of services, we help provide industry leading solutions in all phases of the construction process. Prefabrication, Form Off-Site Solutions, and Self-Perform […]
Off-Site Manufacturing Case Study: Starlight Theatre
Form Off-Site Solutions by JE Dunn uses an approach to prefabrication integration that aims to collaboratively optimize the design, streamline scheduling, enhance safety, and maximize resource efficiency. JE Dunn Construction recently worked to implement a complex prefabrication integration for the Starlight Theatre project, a renowned Kansas City landmark. Starlight Theatre recently launched their Uniquely KC […]
5 Key Benefits of Prefabrication in Construction
In today’s rapidly evolving construction landscape, the industry grapples with significant challenges including supply chain disruptions, unpredictable inflation, and a persistent labor shortage, especially when it comes to skilled labor. These risks can lead to longer project schedules, ballooning budgets, compromised quality, and increased safety incidents. The construction industry has been severely impacted by labor […]