Earth Day 2023
If you are in the neighborhood, come join us at Tractor Supply Co., Stafford Springs, CT for an Earth Day Event! Graphics courtesy Jackie Dell.
Breakfast Anyone?
Senior leadership was at the grill again, making breakfast sandwiches for 80 employees!
Blood Drive 2022
Willington Nameplate is having a blood drive in memory of Luis E. Aguilar-Ceron and Rebecca G. Hunt. Schedule your appointment HERE
Willington Nameplate Earns Certified Metalphoto® Converter Designation
Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Monday, July 19, 2021 – Horizons Imaging Systems Group (ISG) announced that Willington Nameplate has achieved Certified Metalphoto Converter status since 2015 and continues to achieve it until the next audit in 2022. Certified Converter status means that Willington Nameplate has completed a process assessment, received recommendations and begun implementing new processes to improve product quality and …
Bad People or Bad Process
(source: Gemba Walks by Jim Womack) The Covid vaccination process is a great example to consider for this. Think of the Lean Principles. Value in the customer’s eyes – The registration experience was lacking. It was not user friendly and did not consider the first wave of eligible users that were not used to online registration, they were used to …
Implied Perfection Part 2
WNP can help by offering a price option based on the specifications dictated by the blueprint. In the case when the specifications are truly impossible to meet due to an inherent design/language flaw our Estimators will offer a price option based on the spirit of the engineers’ intent. As stated in my previous post it takes many years of experience …
Lean Life @ WNP
CULTURE There is a group of employees that kick around a soccer ball during the two breaks and one lunch time. First, I had a flashback of grade school and playing at recess. It’s amazing how youthful you feel when playing an organized or disorganized sport in our case. One employee was smoking a butt and kicking the ball far …
6S at Willington Nameplate
I’ve been promoting and designing our company 6S program for 12 years. In that time our audit form has been re-invented numerous times in the true fashion of continuous improvement. Not only do we have company education on 6S with audit training, but we also have 6S blitzes where we put aside 30+ minutes once a month to work …