Southland's Manufacturing Philosophy

awesome all right let's go do that right now all right so TJ you're like the head engineer here right oh the head coach not the engineer what does that mean I guess I don't know yeah so we we have instead of managers we call them coaches so we have assistant coaches kind of guys that sit underneath me um then we have head coaches and we have plant managers and you have what you call I've never heard this before two Pizza rule two Pizza rule so basically we need to make sure that to to properly manage people uh we we follow what I call a two Pizza rule so basically I can't have any more than what two pizzas would feed for people working underneath of me so that's eight people so about six to eight people so I can't be in charge directly in charge of more than eight people say okay why you can't you can't effectively man we we figure you can't effectively manage more than that especially younger guys we we find that our process kind of uh it it tailors to younger people um building they love the the Big Welding aspect of it they love but MIG welding is more of a introduction to welding process so so you found your ultimate efficiency is one coach for for six to eight people and your whole company is basically based on the same principle so for every eight people one guy that's doing quality control answering questions solving problems putting out players keeping those guys operating at maximum capacity maximum effici that's correct performance reviews and you have the 3p principle too the 3p principal yeah so we always we always talk product process uh sorry people process product so a lot of companies will put product first we like to put people first it's people then our process then our product you have great people you got great processes the product just comes naturally it doesn't matter if you're building pencils or trailers you're going to get great product if you have great people you so you am EMP power your people to become the absolute best they possibly can you find that that's the most most productive way to get the best out of your people that's correct and then you give them you allow them to refine the process so everybody in this company does what it's a 5S principle so they all get hyper focused hyper organized to their own stations they develop and create their own workstations that's correct and then so that's the process [Music] then the product comes naturally the natural progression of the product the product looks beautiful because…