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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 […]

New Equipment at Fastco This year, Fastco has added / is adding three new (to us machines). Here’s a breakdown of each machine. New Cold Heading Equipment: Nakashimada NP-121 In the spring, we onboarded a Nakashimada NP-121. We were able to find this gem with the help of FH Machinery out of Pennsylvania (Thanks John!).  […]