If you’re like me, I’m constantly thinking of how I can increase business, improve efficiency, and keep my employee morale up. We’ve had a crazy past few weeks here between our new machine, a day of off-site employee training, and gearing up my two girls to get back to school. We are finally starting to make chips on our new Doosan and I’m thrilled with how all our employees haven’t skipped a beat! For all of you who have installed new machines, you know what I mean. Between late nights and short fire drills, we are getting back into our rhythm and I’m excited for new opportunities at Focused on Machining (FOM).

As a business owner, investing in new equipment and my employees are two of my top priorities. For us to continue to be one of the best Colorado machine shops, I know these two things go hand in hand and our success depends on it. As we continue to build FOM and increase our machining and CNC capabilities, we are also doing some employee training which will increase shop efficiency, communication, and productivity. I’m so proud of the work this team has accomplished over the past month both in the shop and out of it. We recently took some of our employees off-site for a development day. It was great to connect with them in a setting that was different than the shop.

We are already seeing the benefits of the team building and managerial training we did. Sessions like the one we had are so important to building a team we can all trust & depend on.

While I’m ranting on about professional development, I hope many of you will check out the Rocky Mountain Tooling & Machining (RMTMA) Fall Conference that is happening at the Hartwig Facility on Thursday, October 8. The RMTMA board has worked hard to bring you some great sessions that would benefit a novice machinist to the experienced CEO. You can attend in person or join us virtually. Check out RMTMA.org for more details.

Keep investing in your shop & people!

Justin Quinn, President