Ronald L. Capps, Vice President and minority owner of Capps Manufacturing, Inc. Ron’s Education includes; Bachelor of Science Business Administration and a Masters in Management Information Systems, both from Friends University in Wichita, KS. In addition, Ron is Certified Production & Inventory Management (CPIM) accredited from the American Production & Inventory Society (APICS). Ron worked for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. for 19 years. At Boeing, Ron gained experience in Industrial Engineering, Operations Systems, and his last five years working with cycle time reduction and Lean Manufacturing concepts for major assembly of the forward nose fuselage on the Boeing 747, 767, and 777 programs. Ron joined Capps Manufacturing full-time in July of 1999.