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Comments from last week:

Jim,

Re: Board Visits

This is a can of worms.  The board visits are rare so the effort is seen to be "once in a while".  Ongoing cleanliness and order is cultural and managerial and it's only when these two coincide that the desired result is reached. 

I just got back from a visit to a 21 year old newsprint mill  in Thailand that was good looking and well maintained but starting to slide a bit.  However, even in this state it, compared to our mills in NA, it was  light years ahead of us.  Green field and brown field installation stand a chance here if management and crew are relatively new.  Over the years, I've seen new machines installed in new buildings that replaced existing machines in a mill and within 5 years the new machine looks like the old ones with dried stock everywhere and old loose broke all over the basement.  

For someone like me that spends two or more years of our life designing a top notch mill, to see it go downhill so fast is discouraging.  On the flip side, seeing a mill that you designed being kept in pristine condition and beating the competition in efficiency and quality while using fewer people, makes this job worthwhile. 

Regards,

Brian Creagan

KSH

Montreal, PQ

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Good Morning, Jim

Regarding cleaning up and throwing away, all I can say is "AMEN!!"  I would add "fixing leaks" to your short list.

Regards,

Bill Adams