People who work with us: Carlo La Fata

As Technical Manager at MAPAL Italia, Carlo La Fata talks about his drive for optimisation and his identification with the company.

Carlo La Fata’s goal is to eliminate mistakes and improve a little bit every day. In the case of production backlogs, he calls the troops together to get deliveries to satisfied customers on time. He is also involved in a variety of site-related processes.

“My responsibilities include a lot of control tasks within work preparation, production and day-to-day operations. I have to make sure that things are done at the right time and that they are done well”, says Carlo La Fata, describing his interface function.

The trained engineer has already celebrated 20 years of service at MAPAL Italia. Carlo La Fata was born in Germany in 1971. Here, he spent a decisive part of his childhood. At that time his father worked in a traditional company in the “City of Blades”, Solingen. Carlo was 11 years old when his family moved back to Sicily. He studied engineering in Palermo and then worked for a while as a computer science teacher in a school.

In 2001, he joined the company at the Gessate site near Milan as an employee in the work preparation department, initially writing work plans and parts lists. He quickly became head of work preparation, then purchasing manager. He also took over the controlling area later on. In recent years, he has increasingly focused on optimising production processes as Technical Manager. “Normally, I am involved in almost all the projects that MAPAL Italia runs”, Carlo tells us proudly.

Process automation increases efficiency

At the Italian site, fine boring tools, solid carbide, ISO and PCD tools are produced, repaired and optimised. One showcase project that Carlo is happy to tell us about was created in close collaboration with MAPAL Aalen:

“We have transferred all the data required for manufacturing into SAP. For PCD tools, we get automated measurement reports at the push of a button, which contributes to clear efficiency gains and meets customer requirements.”

His vision is to work towards these goals for other product lines as well. One automated process he is particularly excited about is the product configurator. Automated drawings and documentation on prices or materials are created after entering only few data. “We’ve already been able to successfully use the tool on solid carbide drills and save almost 50 per cent in time”, he explains. 

A language that unites

除了作为本地工艺流程经理的本职工作之外，他还需要面对MAPAL公司内部的大量数字化课题。“目前，仍有一部分流程对我们来说并不是完全适用的，”Carlo 介绍说。而让他分外惊讶的是，他的老板近年来特意让国外的分支机构更多地参与到决策中，进而推动集团全球标准化进程的发展。“如果所有人都在应用同一个流程进行工作，那我就可以相信所有人对集团的流程具有相同的理解——这样可以保证无论我与哪一家分公司进行联络，我们都站在同一个平台上。”他如此总结共同准则带来的优势。

MAPAL的团队精神

当他的团队出色地完成各项工作任务，各种刀具能够以良好的品质质量及时到达客户手中，他会感到非常满意。Carlo 非常注重的一点就是在公司内不允许形成任何知识孤岛。

“我会鼓励年轻的员工，同时非常乐意传授我的知识。这对我来说非常重要，因为这家与我紧密相连了20年的公司的未来，将由这些年轻人来创造。”

下班之后，同事之间的联系依然保持，因为他偶尔也会和几个同事约时间踢足球或打网球。而这两项运动的共通之处在于，同样需要很高的精确度。

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