At the beginning of May, we have one of the biggest holidays in Japan.
Right before those holidays, our shop usually gets full of machines to be shipped out.
In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year was not an exception.
One of those machines was newly-developed one.
As the ship-out date approached, the project team decided to divide themselves into two groups, and start working in shifts so that they could work on the machine literally all-day.
I honestly didn’t know if it was a good idea.
The machine looked good enough to me, and I was concerned about their health. I had to worry about their families as well, especially since some of them have a baby at home.
So we talked, but they were so insistent and determined to deliver a machine in the best possible shape.
After a week of working in shifts, the machine was shipped out, and now the machine has started running at the customer site.
Because of their pre-installation efforts, things are going well.
It’s just like how they say, as a leader, a part of your job is to let your people do what they are really passionate about, and they will take care your business.
Now that the machine has almost been taken care of, hopefully they will come back to their families soon!
