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,