Paper Converting Machine Company got serious about getting lean shortly after it was acquired in 2005 and has since turned in some of the best financial years in its history. Keith Regan learns how the journey is viewed as ongoing, but one capable of producing powerful results along the way Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) has been in business for 85 years, and as an independent, family-owned firm, it grew into a leading provider of automated paper converting solutions, which are used to produce tissues, packaging, flexographic printing and non-woven materials.

Mixing explosives and gas┬áOne of the indispensible techniques for extracting oil and gas involves explosive charges, but they actually can and do work together well, as Dan Bailey learns. ┬áIn the oil extraction business, a perforating system is a way of deploying explosive materials into an oil or gas well to perform a variety of critical functions.

Service first┬áLarry OÔÇÖConnor, president of Other World Computing, tells April Terreri how a commitment to customers is central to his business philosophy. Larry OÔÇÖConnor was interested in computers at a very early age and designed his first program at the age of six. Later, doing some work for his father, he also discovered that he enjoyed sales and marketing. By the time he was 14, he had started his own company. ÔÇ£I worked for my dad doing data entry,ÔÇØ he says.

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Navigation by innovation┬áKeith Regan learns how innovation has been in North Sails GroupÔÇÖs DNA from the start and how it believes that staying the course on a new product launch is the right tack even in stormy economic seas.  Since Lowell North founded it in a San Diego loft in 1957, North Sails Group has grown into the largest maker of sails in the world, a market share that starts at the top of the performance chain.