✍️ Division8 Blog
Leadership, lean, software, and life in the curtainwall industry
60 posts spanning 2007–2018 · by Steve Watts
🏭Lean2 Second Lean
As we started or lean journey, most of the books you read are about all the tools and techniques of lean. While these are fascinating and can have a...
🏭LeanLean Videos
Walters & Wolf’s Youtube site just passed 700 improvement videos! One of the suggestions that Paul Akers made when he visited our shop was that...
🔧EquipmentDrum Buffer Rope – A view of pull and flow
If you’ve had a chance to read the book “The Goal”, you are probably familiar with Drum, Buffer, Rope. In the book, the main character observes some...
🔧EquipmentGetting your data to the Machines
When we purchased our new machines, they came with the standard suite of Emmegi software: CamPlus, Job, Drill, and Shape. The CamPlus software makes...
👥LeadershipSkills vs Experience
In my position, I am fortunate that I get to meet and interview a lot of people. A number of months ago, we interviewed a gentleman that had many...
👥LeadershipThings you should know
In my last post, I expanded on the idea of skills vs experience. I think it is important, if you want to be a professional in the glazing industry,...
👥LeadershipLeaders Read
One thing that I noticed at my company, all the leaders of the company read. I’d heard the saying that “leaders read” before but as I looked around,...
👥LeadershipGoing Paperless
About 8 years ago, at Autodesk University, Carol Bartz was making her keynote address. In that address she made a prediction that the construction...
👥LeadershipGet Promoted! (or at least get a raise…)
Management is a weird thing. Most people think of a role in management as a step up but it is really a step sideways. You go along in your career...
👥LeadershipFocus
One of the things you can do to increase your productivity and achieve more results is to increase your focus. Most people in our industry today are...
🏭LeanUpdate on our Lean Journey
I’m pleased to announce that we now have over 1000 improvement videos on our Walters & Wolf Channel. These videos represent the small incremental...
👥LeadershipThe Art of Interviews
One thing you ending up having to do when you become a manager is learn to Interview someone. Hiring is the most important job as a manager and it...