The History

I founded Young Solutions in 1999 with the mission to help select manufacturers optimize their processes and automation.

With experience in engineering and plant management, I was always looking for options to give my facilities a competitive edge. As a plant manager, I helped guide a facility with quality and production, as it doubled its sales from twenty to forty million dollars per year. Later, I helped execute a strategic turnaround at a local manufacturing plant, improving the P&L by $1,000,000.00 a month. During this time I solidified my vision to assist manufacturing facilities by providing quick accesses to tools and expertise necessary to run efficiently.

Even with effective cross training programs, the lean plants of today find themselves needing additional expertise to facilitate the completion of essential projects.

Young Solutions provides a multi-pronged approach, which focuses on custom automation and process improvements, to help manufacturers improve their bottom line. We focus on the symbiosis of a process and its automation.

Why Should Your Company Use Young Solutions?

Can’t find the right Solution Provider? I have been there. Having experience as a process engineer, automation engineer and a plant manager, I was always looking for options to give my facility a competitive edge.

As you know, finding the problem is easy. It’s developing and implementing the solution that can be difficult. Working in the plant as an engineer it is often possible to develop a concept for a solution, however, the resources to develop a turn-key project are sometimes lacking. Dedicating the necessary time to an integration project is sometimes simply not possible. If the time is available, developing a mechanical solution and integrating it with the appropriate software and controls are just the beginning. Managing the release of all the components to production along with the purchasing and assembly of the system is an additional challenge, and finally the solution has to be managed once it is installed in the process.

Process and Operational Improvements have their own challenges. Having experience with a wide variety of process improvement tools, we can provide the answers you need in a timely manner, create a plan, and assist you in achieving your goals.

You deserve new options which include:

• Quick Response, Personalized Attention, and High Value.
• No Bureaucracy or Group Think

Ben’s Story

I am often asked how I develop some of these amazing products. Where did you learn to invent things?

Well, to be honest, it really started with my father actually. My Dad was one of 13 children. In a situation like that, a child better learn to think and do for himself very quickly. He was naturally a pretty smart guy and so that quality coupled with a stubborn streak made it easier for him to be able to figure out whatever he needed to. A lot of times in big families the older kids help to even things out. But in my dad’s case, his older siblings were all drafted into the war. He became one of the chief doers not only for himself, but for the whole family.

I grew up a little differently. I was the only boy with six sisters. I figured out pretty quickly that the only person who analyzed things the same way in my house was my dad. I remember growing up with everyone always being impressed by the things he invented. But my dad didn’t think of himself as an inventor. He was simply finding solutions to problems. I worked alongside of him as I grew up, watching and learning. I learned to take care of many things on the farm while he was gone, and I also became part of his construction crew on large commercial projects in the summers.

I grew up in a small town in the northwest corner of Missouri. And of course it was a few years ago, before you could order anything you wanted from Amazon or Grainger on the internet. When we needed something, our first thought wasn’t to buy it, but rather how to make it. It’s funny to me now how the term recycling has become a modern movement. The way I grew up, it was a natural way to think. How can I work with what I have and make it better? This is always the natural starting place with how my brain works. I guess you could say I was bred to be efficiently innovative.

Those attributes were rewarded early in my career life. After I graduated from Kansas State, I was presented with two opportunities for employment. The first was working as a design engineer in the petroleum industry and the second was as an automation engineer developing high speed food processing equipment. I was much more intrigued with the high speed mechanization so I chose that option. Ironically my boss told me much later that he chose me over other candidates, because he had better experiences with farm kids as they often knew how to make things work..

Unknown to me at the time, my first project at this company was considered by many as impossible. An important customer had requested a solution for a specific problem, but the experienced engineers in the company wanted nothing to do with this project. It’s not good for your career to have a failure associated with yourself and an important customer. To appease the customer, I was hired a right out of college and assigned the project. It was the perfect solution. After all, who could blame a kid right out of school when it failed?

I had no clue this project couldn’t succeed, and a funny thing happened. A couple of months later, I had designed and built a machine that worked! It was only after I received a letter of praise from the customer and a lot of attention from my peers, that it was revealed the project was never really considered viable. That experience gave me the confidence that I could make a career out of doing what other people could not.