PEOPLE WHO CARE

Not to be replaced by machine

In our quarterly reviews covering production related topics we write about small details which, combined together, result in our products being considered by customers as something more than just one of many options they have. We point out subtle distinctions that make our business partners look no longer for any spare parts. They choose MAEM parts instead, knowing that the machines they are responsible for have been provided with the top quality parts.

We admit that the topic we originally planned to cover here has been replaced with this special article in connection with the current crisis spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the distressing developments, we have taken steps to prevent its possible consequences. This has given us an honourable opportunity to write about the most valuable asset of each company or business organisation: committed employees.

Scientists say that for the majority of us workplace is our second home. Assuming that we work eight hours, five days a week, during 50 years of our working life we spend as many as 13 years at work! This article features MAEM employees who voluntarily agreed that due to the pandemic, the workplace would literally be their second home.

The production department is the heart of any manufacturing company.

All other organisational units making up a coherent whole around it form a system of connected vessels that provide necessary raw materials and offer products to customers around the world. When production is stopped, the existence of all other departments does not make any sense and the company, as an organism, begins to die. It is the production department, together with the quality control department, the purchasing department and the logistics, that keeps the organisation alive and functioning. Stopping one of the chain units has a disturbing effect on the work of the others.

This article is about a group of employees of our production centre, with some of them normally working at other departments. They have one thing in common: they cannot work online. Given the real threat of the whole facility closure in the case of coronavirus detection, the group voluntarily went on a one-week shift during which they took up residence in their workplace, that is MAEM production centre.

Sacrificing their personal lives and staying away from their relatives at the difficult time of pandemic, our heroes took matters into their own hands and, working hard, ensured the continuity of most of the key processes at the company.

We, who can work from home at this difficult time, take our hats off to them. We thank them and feel privileged to form a well-functioning organism, MAEM company, together with them.

And finally, going back to the point already made, let the present situation make us all realise that even the most expensive machines and equipment will not substitute the commitment and dedication of people who care about their workplace.

Thank you!