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May 2020 #12250 Page #15
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Moving Forward with Your Team and Spida Wendy Boyd Sales and Marketing Manager Spida Machinery
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n the wake of troubled times, I’m filled with hope and renewed energy as I review the month that was and all of the things that have been accomplished for Spida Machinery worldwide.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
While the last month has presented itself in varying degrees, Spida internationally has looked inward to assess what we can do better. What we have learned from our own introspection is that engineering and machinery development is in our blood. In fact, generations of experts, our fathers and grandfathers, have produced or been part of producing some of the machinery being used today around the world. Klaisler and Spida have been part and parcel of the fabric of the frame, truss, and component machinery and mechanics – and as little boys and girls, we watched in awe and sometimes worked on the machinery in your and our factories. Now, the new path that we walk and the new avenues for our business include these goals. One: Lean Manufacture. Doing things smarter and better is a learning curve, even though many businesses, Spida included, sometimes think they have it just right. From the top to the very bottom, everyone in the process benefits from a lean thinking approach. Individual efficiency is no longer the goal. The end goal has become improved flow right from the start of your process to the end. Spida too has begun planning for a leaner, smarter future. It is a work in progress with lots of learning to be done, but we are talking with experts in the field and we will strive to succeed. Our mantra is: To minimize waste and maximize efficiency, and to make sure our effort is sustainable. Two: Software Efficiency. All three of our manufacturing sites now have installed two new pieces of software for efficient production, job costing, inventory, and accounting. That means, we now all speak the same language in our network, and this provides us with a rich global, front to back-end operational and accounting system for those of us doing stock sales, manufacturing, jobbing, etc. Now more than ever, we are ready for anything. This has been such a learning curve for our team, but the team has been bullet proof in their resolve to implement and succeed. We are 95% there and operationally we are richer for it. Three: Strategically Planning for the Future. The future of manufacturing is such a crystal ball equation. Based on what we know, our continual hurdle of a constantly moving labor force means that there is a full-time job for someone to manage sick days, holidays, job transition, training, and recruiting, even without all of the other factory, supply, and manufacturing challenges. Both we and our customers face these challenges on a daily basis. Continued next page
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