General update
My posting volume has dropped dramatically. It seems like we're getting into more of a groove and there's not quite so much entertaining and new stuff to talk about. Here are a few items we're working on...
Today we had an open house. Some of our friends (especially from Boeing) were curious about what we're up to. We had about a dozen people come to see the factory. It was great fun and I got to see some friends I hadn't seen in a year or more.
We're working with a team of four seniors at Seattle University from the Engineering Projects Center. We've got a professor and four students and we've had our first two meetings (one at school, one at the factory). Within a couple of weeks we'll settle on a project and they'll go to work. By next June we should have a design in place for another new product!
We're also working with an entirely different team at Seattle University from the Business School. These three marketing students are working to help us expand our candle lantern exports. It's a big world and there's not much data to support their research so it's a great challenge. This is the first step in our participation in the King County Export Mentor Program.
The lean process improvements in the factory will get a big boost shortly. At the end of October we'll be closing the shop for 2 days for lean training. We've got our conference room reconfigured as a classroom so we're ready to go. We'll close up for 4 days in December and 4 more in January to do kaizen events in certain factory areas. This should be good!
Ice cream ball sales continue to climb a mountain (size extremely uncertain). Today's big question: how will sales in 2006 Q1 compare to sales in 2005 Q4. Higher? Lower? By how much? Betting is allowed and encouraged.
We may have found a new sales rep in the catalog world. His operation looks very professional. A huge improvement over the mess we got tangled up in earlier this year.
The accounting consultant continues his work to find a new system for us. I'm still aiming at a January 1, 2006 flip of the switch (if only it were that easy).
The mens room has flooded twice this week. Sales are nice and all, but fixing this has "floated" to the top of the list.
We're finishing up a nice order for Red Dot corporation. The job is right up our alley...it uses the exact same processes as the manufacture of the candle lanterns.
Steve is developing an updated product catalog. It's coming along very nicely. The result will be beautiful and functional!
One employee quit recently. We hired a replacement who seems to be doing a great job. We also converted a contract employee over to a direct employee. Another excellent addition to a great team!
Today we had an open house. Some of our friends (especially from Boeing) were curious about what we're up to. We had about a dozen people come to see the factory. It was great fun and I got to see some friends I hadn't seen in a year or more.
We're working with a team of four seniors at Seattle University from the Engineering Projects Center. We've got a professor and four students and we've had our first two meetings (one at school, one at the factory). Within a couple of weeks we'll settle on a project and they'll go to work. By next June we should have a design in place for another new product!
We're also working with an entirely different team at Seattle University from the Business School. These three marketing students are working to help us expand our candle lantern exports. It's a big world and there's not much data to support their research so it's a great challenge. This is the first step in our participation in the King County Export Mentor Program.
The lean process improvements in the factory will get a big boost shortly. At the end of October we'll be closing the shop for 2 days for lean training. We've got our conference room reconfigured as a classroom so we're ready to go. We'll close up for 4 days in December and 4 more in January to do kaizen events in certain factory areas. This should be good!
Ice cream ball sales continue to climb a mountain (size extremely uncertain). Today's big question: how will sales in 2006 Q1 compare to sales in 2005 Q4. Higher? Lower? By how much? Betting is allowed and encouraged.
We may have found a new sales rep in the catalog world. His operation looks very professional. A huge improvement over the mess we got tangled up in earlier this year.
The accounting consultant continues his work to find a new system for us. I'm still aiming at a January 1, 2006 flip of the switch (if only it were that easy).
The mens room has flooded twice this week. Sales are nice and all, but fixing this has "floated" to the top of the list.
We're finishing up a nice order for Red Dot corporation. The job is right up our alley...it uses the exact same processes as the manufacture of the candle lanterns.
Steve is developing an updated product catalog. It's coming along very nicely. The result will be beautiful and functional!
One employee quit recently. We hired a replacement who seems to be doing a great job. We also converted a contract employee over to a direct employee. Another excellent addition to a great team!
posted by Keith @ 9:31 PM
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