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How long have you worked at DePuy Synthes?
Worked at DePuy since 2011,
I started out as a production associate.
Were you surprised at winning VS of the year or quietly confident?
Look its always going to be a surprise to win something like that. There are 5 value streams in total and winning is a big deal.
We recently shook things up- I joined the Fems team last year, another team lead that had left came back to Fems and we also got one other new team lead from another area. So
in the Ops side of things we changed things around. Along with that, we also had a new Quality team lead and a new Engineering team lead.
So surprised? Yeah I was surprised but it was a nice surprise.
Biggest challenge of being team lead?
You have caught me off guard now, with Ops everyday is
a huge challenge. Its very much firefighting: we have
36 grinders producing a lot
of parts, we have close to 140 associates, a cross functional team made up of Quality, Engineering, Operations teams leads, Lean, Maintenance... about 20 people there in total. It’s just managing that day
to day hecticness while
getting your standard work complete on a day to day basis. Thankfully we didn’t have any major dramas throughout the year.
We have a lot of ramping up at the moment with Cementless product. We have 4 new grinders that are up and running for a few weeks now and getting them going was a big one for us. They have given us a lot of extra capacity. A lot of the times our standard work doesn’t get done till you’re home but that’s part of the job.
Favourite part of the working week?
I would say clocking out here on a Friday.... but no actually I like Monday mornings. I don’t know why its just something about Monday mornings when you are building up and getting ready for the week.
Favourite spot on site?
I would probably say my favourite spot on site would
be in the boardroom looking out at that view- it’s a fantastic view up there, if I could pick an office it would be somewhere up there.
Word association- quick fire round, answering with the first word that comes to mind: Red - blood
Car - BMW
Weather - Rain
Quality - Perfection Connect - Friendship Adaptiv - Signing off CCRs Outdoors - Fun Ringaskiddy - DePuy Gauges - Missing
Credo - Our Promise
Interview with
Anthony Carton
Associate in Fems
How long have you worked in Depuy?
21 years as an associate in Sigma Value stream.
Where has been your favourite place to cycle?
I haven’t been there yet. The silk road is on the cards eventually. You can cycle as much or as little as you want and go through all the high mountains along that trail.
What is the longest bike ride you have been on?
It was 2400 miles long, there was 200,000ft
of climbing all the way from Banff to Mexico. The whole route was off road and it was done self supported- this means you carry all of your equipment on your bike, none of it is waiting for you at camp points. This was a race with around 120 other people from all over the world.
What is your most recent big cycle?
I did the tour of Aotearoa in New Zealand in March of this year. This was 3000km long and I was there cycling for 17 days. It was the same format as Banff to Mexico in that it was a self supported race with a mixture of beaches and mountain terrains to cycle. Of the two terrains I would definitely prefer mountains. Along this tour there were all sorts
of checkpoints to reach where you would take a picture to prove you hit them. These were glaciers, certain mountains and one was a really old tree. I just made it back to Ireland before the pandemic would have meant I was stuck there. The whole tour starts in Cape Reija- this is very spiritual for the Mauri. The rules of the cycle were that you would have to stop for 6 hours every 24 hours as there were cyclists on the route that would have kept on going for days. Each of these events are different with different quirky rules like this.
What was the best view?
Not the glacier, there wasn’t much left of it. One of the other cyclists had been maybe 15 years before and he said the difference was shocking. I would say the Southern Alps were pretty impressive- they were wow. They hug the coastline and look out over the Pacific.
One of the checkpoints was the top of Mount Eden, I arrived at the base of it at night and there was a lovely view in the dark of the city of Auckland.
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