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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!).  […]

Distribution and Customer Service Team Scoreboards The Distribution and Customer Service teams chose three major areas to focus on for our scoreboard. These include: Percentage of on time shipments for orders with stock on hand, Number of errors made by Customer Service, and Time it takes to process finished goods into inventory. On-Time Shipments We […]

Safety Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (SFMEA) Over the last year and a half, Fastco’s safety team has been developing a Safety Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (SFMEA). We identify safety and health risks using a failure modes and effects analysis. We adopted this from the quality methodology used in the automotive industry to reduce […]

The Inspection Team Scoreboard The Inspection Team developed Scoreboard drivers based on production from our Electronic floor, EZ-sort and Roller sort. As a crew, we forecast the production volume weekly on Mondays for all three areas. We create this forecast using the number of tubs that can be run from in-house inventory as well as […]

  Fastco Quality; A tale of redemption and going above and beyond for a customer! At Fastco, we take quality and customer service seriously. That being said, the Quality team itself doesn’t often get to be “good guys.” Our jobs often involve the negative, what was wrong, what didn’t go right, what failed internally or […]