On the latest episode of the Made in Iowa Podcast, presented by Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield and hosted by Leisa Fox, Craig Shafer, chief operating officer at Stellar Industries, shares how Stellar has evolved while protecting the culture that’s helped drive its growth.
The focus is on a belief that processes don’t fix companies; people do.
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What we've taken a step back with and said what is our automation program look like? Specifically when you start to to become a larger organization like Stellar is. There's different synergies that we need to take into account, right? Different things to say if I'm gonna pull something out of Omaha and send it to Garner. Is that a broader strategy? Is that a short term thing? We, we have like product right there. There's there's a lot of like product on the product that we make in Garner, but that's going to create some different design changes in order to to go do that. The question again then becomes is what's the growth? So if we move it to Garner, we going to move it to Garner until we we outgrow that capacity and then do we send it back to Omaha. So there there was a lot of very good, very spirited debates about where do we invest, how do we invest and how does that, how does that. Look and and because of that, we slow down a little bit earlier this year of of investing in automation.
