Randy Crouse

Planning and scheduling the Fabrication part of the VFCP cell and managing the employees that come with it. Responsible for meeting OTD goals in my area, maintaining an inventory that meets company standards, and closing jobs to make sure there is no unaccounted material in the factory.

• Enhanced production efficiency by implementing Kanban to fill demand of high profile, high demand customers (Medtronic, Cardiac, etc) which put us months ahead on orders that were previously always late
• Helped move production cell to new facility and helped manage new training, cell layout, and other difficulties that came along with it
• 100% Kanban Inventory
• Currently leading two continuous improvement projects: First, a tool readiness and availability prokect to ensure timely delivery of tools. Second, a low volume Kanban project. It will reduce extrusion capacity by as much as 80% for low volume orders while also reducing raw material needed and also RTP processing time
• With the help of all involved teams, taken VFCP from 50-60% OTD cell with over 100 late orders to 99% OTD cell with 0
• Oversaw inception and rollout of Mural which is now starting to be used throughout the company
• Helped develop Kintone production tracker for punch area

As a group leader I was mostly responsible for cross-referencing, jobs to close (both closing and finding issues with BOMs), and production scheduling. Most of the skills I've learned here during my time as a group leader. Had 3 different supervisors and maintained a good relationship with all of them.

Skills learned: Cross-referencing, navigation of new and old Syteline, deep dives of BOMs and RTP transactions and how they work and effect on jobs to close.

Punch press operator Pb/PbFree 3rd shift. Was one of the top performing operator's on third shift even without supervision most of the time. I was a self-starter that just wanted to get as much as I could done. Ran multiple presses with little to no quality issues (that I knew of)