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Department Spotlight – Quality Control By Nick DePompolo   1: What are you most looking forward to in the coming year for your department at Fastco? Coming into the New Year, Fastco’s QC team is excited to focus our efforts on the production of in spec parts. Our plan of attack is relatively simple, have […]

Tool Room Scoreboards and More! By Tom Fredricks The current scoreboard measurement for the Tool Rooms is quantity of tooling produced. By focusing on tooling numbers, we are doing our best to ensure tooling is always ready and available for header repairs. This allows for the quickest return of the tooling to the header when […]

Logistics Spotlight By TaShawn Mack In 2025, I’m looking forward to enhancing efficiency and operational excellence in our logistics processes. My focus is on reducing downtime, improving scheduling accuracy, and optimizing resource utilization to ensure timely and cost‐effective delivery of customer orders. For the company as a whole, I’m excited to contribute to initiatives that […]

A Brief History Of Quality By Jesse Brasseur   Resources were limited in Japan in the 1940s due to World War II.  During that time Japanese motor companies Mitsubishi, who built the zero planes for the Japanese army, and Toyota, who built the vehicles for the Japanese army, came together to form the original Quality […]

How To Run This Business My dad and I had a close, but often contentious relationship. He had a much different idea on how to run a business than I did. Part of this was the result of his life experience, experience that made him much more “hands-on” than I was. Back in the early […]

Maintenance Team Metrics As part of the Maintenance team’s efforts to improve, they have included the following metrics on their team scoreboards: Completing repair requests within three days, Completing planned repair requests on a monthly basis, and tracking repair and maintenance spending monthly. These metrics help keep production running and help profitability of the company […]