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Kaas Tailored, located in Washington state, designs and builds custom upholstery solutions for discerning clients who have identified an ongoing need for a business partner that they can count on.
This Manufacturing Week bus tour spotlight video is presented by Amazon. Welcome to Costs tailored. We're located here in Muclteo, Washington. We manufacture commercial and aerospace furniture. We have 155 employees and this is us here. We only one location. Yeah 1974 so next year will be 50 years that we started the business. It was started by Larry Kos and a cousin. We started just with the furniture and that grew and we started adding on the aerospace side of the business. I want to say 1996 here and then as you can see just visually our business has just grown and grown since then. So it's a manufacturing tour we make stuff so that makes us manufacturers is that right? We actually grow people for a living we just happen to use making stuff as the tool. So it's not really about making airplane products not really about making furniture and it's all very cool and we get to do amazing things. It's about becoming a better person so the purpose of our organization is to shine our light. How do we use the work today to be a blessing to the people in our community? Of course the clients that we serve but the people who are making stuff which means that a lot of things that are around you are designed to communicate truth a little bit at a time so we can improve every day. This is hilarious I forget about that yeah. So right now everybody shuts down we don't make stuff we just teach each other our work we call it team training so you might notice people gathering. The model there is if you really want to learn something you teach what We had a bunch of new people and it was hey how do you run the bandsaw and how do we make sure that we don't lose fingers doing it. Where we literally took a camera and went down and just said hey will you On the back of each today board which are behind you every QR code is a lesson that supports team training. If you're working here and you can't remember how to do something you'll just pop a QR code you'll watch it you can ask your leader hey please explain to me this. Yeah so it's five minutes and they rotate trainers What you see going on right now is the team clean so for five minutes a day everybody no matter what your position is everybody's cleaning together so it's a bit So they work in flow lines and that allows for different skill level employees to work together but also grow their skill Over here we have our furniture sewing so they're supporting upholstery by Yeah basically downstairs for us is sub assembly upstairs is final assembly while our frames are getting built in here so this is where it all starts for us. This is all the leather cutting so basically all the leather is getting cut for the aerospace seats that we're making upstairs everything that we do is CNC cut it allows us to control the manufacturing control the product and ensure quality so this is a lamination machine that's a CNC cutting machine it will cut any material under the sun other than metal quality and on-time delivery is the thing that we hang our hat on it's incredibly expensive to hold up the delivery of an airplane so in our stuff fortunately unfortunately is the last thing that goes on it I think manufacturing has a tremendous value to any community that will only see more and more of it and I think it's a critical thing for us as a state. Thanks so much for tuning in. This manufacturing week bus tour spotlight was presented by Amazon.