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Headquarters: 414 East Third St., P.O. Box 1109, Muscatine, IA 52761
Phone: (563) 264-7400
Business: Manufactures office furniture and fireplaces
Chief information officer: Malcolm Fields
Financials in 2001: $1.8 billion in sales; $75 million in net income
Challenge: Install and integrate Linux-based IT system for manufacturing facilities
Baseline Goals:
Maintain on-time production and delivery of goods at 98%— up from 75% a few years ago
Eliminate all downtime of manufacturing lines in its 12 production sites
Improve production capacity by at least 10% each year
Projects: Processes 
