Running the Diversitech Factory

With the help of Simon Hopper, our CEO, we’ve compiled a series of stories of how Diversitech came to be and we are excited to share them with you.

• Chapter 1- The Mr. 7 Hands Story
• Chapter 2- Forming the Diversitech Team
• Chapter 3- Winning the Advance Auto Parts Quality Award
• Chapter 4- Winning the Target Reliability Award
• Chapter 5- Building a Factory and Buying Land
• Chapter 6- Running a Factory

Running a factory is an exercise of continuous improvement because you’re never finished. So, you, in perpetuity, have to plan.

You have to check, and you have to act.

That is really what the ISO standard is. 

In 2008, we decided that we needed to bring a third party in to audit and check that our internal processes and recording and reporting systems were all good. So, we had a manufacturing engineer come and consult with us. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt, and has a wealth of knowledge in manufacturing and internal management. 

He helped me prepare the company mission statement for Diversitech Manufacturing, which is to design, assemble, and package innovative product assortments to maximize client’s profits and market share. That was the mission statement that we tried to get across to all of our staff and that we tried to communicate with our customers.

Having successfully supplied Target stores, and their private label TILs, their mission was to expand our customer base. We went from supplying Target stores to supplying Walmart, B&Q, Advance Auto Parts, Argos, Homebase, Praktiker, and others.

After developing our mission statement, our goal was to be a leading China hardware supplier.

So that’s pretty much what we did from 2008 to 2018.

Then in 2018, to continue with this, we adopted the Diversitech creed, and the DiversiTech creed are principles that I firmly believe in and that I apply as the acting General Manager of Diversitech Manufacturing