A few months ago, I started acting as UCEC’s unofficial “911 operator.” I’m the one to call if the shop needs a part immediately. I’m kidding about the 911 part, but sometimes, there’s an urgency to our daily shop work.
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Recently, I had a new job come in, and like I usually do, I double-checked the Bill of Material against the schematics to make sure what we purchased had actually arrived.
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After our panels are assembled, Morgan will verify that they’ve been built from the latest print. Morgan has been with UCEC since 2011, so he’s really picked up all of the various aspects of panel assembly.
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Recently, Ron Siauw and I traveled to Underwriters Laboratory (UL) outside of Chicago for additional training. With UL, we have the ability in the UCEC shop to do three different listings: 508A (pretty basic, standard stuff); 698 and NNNY. These last two are ratings for control panels in hazardous locations.
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We recently formalized a Quality Control team here at UCEC. It’s comprised of Garrod Massey, Paula Zangari, Ron Siauw and Morgan Burris.
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Over and above everything we make in the UCEC shop looms one of the most important foundations of our business: ethics. Without solid ethics in place, we’re just one more business that makes a widget or two.
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The shop is busy these days, which is pretty normal. We’re working with long-time customers, first-time customers and everything inbetween. The word is out: UCEC makes great panels at a fair price.
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I’ve read that sales of organizing supplies peak in January as everyone decides to get organized at the start of a new year. We’ve caught the organizing bug here at UCEC, too. One of my projects currently is organizing our warehouse and getting rid of obsolete and redundant equipment and supplies.
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