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The LEAN Side by: Roy St. Andre Executive VP & GM EIS Wire & Cable Co. 775 New Ludlow Road South Hadley, MA 01075 USA wwweiswire.com Unbelievable! Last month we celebrated our 10-year anniversary of the beginning of our leam journey and while its been a stow and arduous process, is also been rewarding and sometimes even fun (know, fm sick), To celebrate this momentous occasion, we shut ‘down the plant, ran through a quick recap ofthe progress we made ‘year-by-year and then talked about where weire going in the future, ‘tansforming our company. thik our employees enjoyed the recog nition. Of course it dnt hurt that handed each of them anice bonus. check as | thanked each employee personally ‘Since | started ving tis column in 2007, some of you have been following us along the way. you were to connect the dots over the years, you'd see that we stared with too onto processes and eventually started to grasp the idea a business man- ageme Like most firms, we journey by imple- rmentin like §S—a workplace organization program to prep the ny forthe long journey ahead. | remember the re- sponse | got when) luced our 8S program which was: "Do ‘you want the do you want production out the door?” Probably not uni n rany companies get as they be- in their journey. Once the effects of 5S took hold,

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