Family bike ride along the Kettle River
Relief and Recreation
Of course, adding value and demonstrating his worth to AEM over years is hard work. Wylie admits to being his own “biggest critic” and to setting “unrealistically high bars” for himself — in order to set himself up for those educational failures from which he can grow.
Yet, in this self-imposed pressure cooker, he finds relief in his family with his partner Kristen and his “two amazing and active stepkids.” (The family also has a four-legged member: a yellow labrador named Sadie. “She’s a big ole lovable doughhead,” he says.) Their family
spends time together enjoying trailer camping in the
majestic West. “Ultimately, my time away from work is all about family and extended family. (That extended-family time will soon involve Wylie learning to play pickleball with his father.)
Wylie also has another relaxing escape: reading high fantasy book series. He says, “For my fellow fantasy nerds, I recommend Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson and The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind. I love to read biographies, history books, and epic fantasy series as a relaxing escape that can shed new light on real-life relationships and circumstances.”
Strategy AEM
One real-life circumstance from which Wylie and AEM are not escaping, but facing head-on, is a challenge that confronts most manufacturing companies in all industries: containing rising material costs and resolving supply-chain issues. The execution strategy to mitigate costs boils down to an acronym cleverly based on AEM’s company name; the
strategy
is Automation, Education, and Modularization. Wylie explains, “We continuously ask ourselves: What can we automate
to become more
efficient and reduce costs? Can we educate employees to become more productive and efficient? Can we take what’s
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working in one department and modulate (or standardize) that process so that it can be used by other departments?”
As we’ve learned, Wylie loves asking questions to
drive
toward solutions — and AEM’s chief operating officer has both hands firmly on the steering wheel.
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