18th June, 2008: Improving Our Operation
This is the time when we approve major projects for the company. Every year we look at our current equipment, building, and process to see if there are major items we need to purchase to improve our operation. Each plant will identify, cost out, and recommend those projects that will help improve the process, reduce cost, or improve safety. Those projects are reviewed at the plant level and then passed on for review at the corporate level. The projects will range from; upgrading all the florescent lights from the low efficiency T8s to the new/more efficient T12s, new milling machine for part production, new printer for our cases, to air assisted lifts to reduce the amount of bending people do. You never really are sure what will be asked for but you do know it has been evaluated and justified.
The company/family has always taken a very proactive approach in keeping equipment upgraded and investing money back into the operation as one way to ensure we have a consistently reliable product and safe working conditions. This year we will spend almost a million dollars, not that we have to because things are broken but because for the long term it just makes sense. If you take the time to make those little adjustments along the way you never get the system out of balance.
Dean
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