plant capacity that now will allow the facility to produce $35 million in sales. O’Fallon Casting’s employees—and
customers—have learned to trust in Hadley and Gimeno’s vision. “Tere was a cultural shift when
Vince and Barry came aboard,” said Bruce Willson, O’Fallon Casting sales manager. “After the end of their first year, we could see they were commit- ted to reinvesting the pennies we were making back into the business. Change has become a daily occurrence. Vince and Barry have the vision thing.”
“Technology Is What We Are All About”
Gimeno and Hadley knew the key
to achieving the world-class status they sought was to advance techno- logically through automation and integration of computer systems. “We had acquired a business with a
good reputation and a strong group of core employees that only needed better tools to take them to a higher level,” Gimeno said. Perhaps the technological changes
can best be illustrated by the growth of the number of computers. In 2003, Gimeno said O’Fallon Casting had just five computers in the building. He began buying two computers a month for the company “on a journey to be paperless.” Tat pace quickened thanks to a sharp production employee. “As the company is progressing, we
have to look at the potential of people,” Gimeno said. “I had someone working as a manual grinder and he saw that I was buying two computers a month. He approached me and told me he knew a lot about computers and asked how much we were paying for those two computers. When I told him, he asked, ‘How about I build you three computers for the price of those two?’” Gimeno gave the grinder a chance to
prove his claim, and he succeeded. Now, nearly every workstation has a computer.
Wax runners are injected in multi-
cavity molds at O’Fallon Casting.
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