Peebles' Pride: 'When You Walk in You Can Feel it'
Posted Mar 16, 2016 in Labs & Profiles
Rick Peebles has come a long way since he began his career as a one-man removables lab in a prosthodontist’s office more than three decades ago. His laboratory, Peebles Prosthetics Inc., has grown into a 65-person, full-service operation and, in 2013, moved into a two-story, 19,500-sq-ft, state-of-the-art facility in Lakewood, CO.
Since the building was full of cubicles and office areas, the entire space had to be gutted and remodeled into a production laboratory. Peebles worked with an architect, engineers and a construction company and the renovation process took five months.
The ground floor features a 5,000-sq-ft production area designed to maximize workflow. Since 99% of the lab’s business is local, cases are delivered by one of the lab’s seven drivers into a central disinfection room that can hold up to 200 cases. After moving into the office area for data entry and production tickets, casepans go to designated shelving in each department from which...
