We would like to welcome Reinder Jager to NPB

1 February 2022

What is your role at NPB?

My role within NPB will be to manage the development within NPB on start-up services. This is part of the strategic plan we have at NPB. We see a business opportunity at improving the customers start-ups. The experience NPB has on machine building and developing line controls, combined with my Operational Process experience, gives us the possibility to help our customers on a wider scope and optimize their ramp-up to a high OEE.

What is the big benefits for our customers with a Start-up service?

The optimized ramp-up will also be achieved by using the line monitoring software we already can offer but also by getting more deep into gathering big-data on machine and process parameters which can be analysed and used to give valuable information to the customers on fact based action to drive Continuous Improvement programs. Such service given to the customer will not only be beneficial for the customer but also for NPB to keep learning on out customers processes and what this means for improving the machines and conveying we deliver.
 
The ultimate goal is to step into the customer projects at the earliest stage, the initial idea, offer them support the develop their project to a design for not only the line but also for their organization needed to run their line at an optimum during all phase from first stroke till highest OEE.

How long have you been working with Start-up at can/endmakers?

Being responsible within Ardagh and Trivium for multi million projects in the past 10 years and working since 1991 in Can and End making Operations, I have been myself in the pitfalls we still see at many customers. Learning it the hard way as an autodidact it would be great to share this experience within our machine industry to develop the start-up services.

And let´s finish with one more personal question:
Tell us about something you would love to do again?

In the past years I have been restoring an WW2 Jeep Willys MB from 1944 and a MBT Trailer from 1942. To have this done on my driveway in all-weather conditions was a challenge, this was a challenge next to picking up some very basic experience on cutting, welding and to assemble again.

Since it has been licensed in 2019 to drive on the road again, I use it weekly to go for shopping, also in wintertime.

I really would like to start a similar project on a WW2 WC51, a little bigger, all a bit heavier, more heading to a small truck. At the moment there is one condition I cannot fulfill to buy a wreck and to start because of limited space on the driveway somebody asks me first to sell the Jeep…, I cannot.