Uhlmann UNDERGOING CHANGESYou are what you wear

No easy decision: It took around two years before the new workwear was handed out. However, the feedback from colleagues is positive throughout.

29.01.2020

Text: Beate Glanz

Photos: Uhlmann

Finally, at the begin­ning of January, all assembly fitters from Plants 1 and 7, including appren­tices, as well as the vehicle fleet and care­taker teams, were provided with work­wear – new design, new mate­rials. Thanks to excel­lent orga­ni­za­tion, distri­b­u­tion was completed in a day.

A few facts and figures:

Why new working clothes?

  • The wish for more comfort­able mate­rials
  • Uniform Uhlmann appear­ance toward the customer
  • Change from rental to purchased work­wear with signif­i­cantly simpli­fied handling

Inven­tory

  • Invi­ta­tion to a trial fitting in October 2019 for all affected employees
  • Deter­mi­na­tion of the sizes of approx­i­mately 325 employees in the social room within three days

Clothing per employee

  • eight tops (polos + T-shirts)
  • one sweat jacket
  • two pairs of long pants (choice between two styles)
  • one pair of short pants (choice between two styles)

Total distrib­uted

  • 1,466 polo shirts
  • 1,289 T-shirts
  • 347 sweat jackets
  • 734 long working pants
  • 350 short working pants

With the new work­wear packed in about 100 boxes on seven pallets, Ruth Schef­fold, Evelyn Hagel, Ange­lika Fieseler, Sandra Kahler, Corinna Birk, Barbara Krems, Lina Birk, and Daniela Scherer were respon­sible for its orga­ni­za­tion and distri­b­u­tion. Barbara Krems, Tanja Braig, Frank Dobler, and Tobias Ego are pleased about the consis­tently posi­tive feed­back. They selected the new clothes.

Order through an online catalog

Old work­wear can be kept and worn privately. Note: A new ordering process through an online catalog – how could it be other­wise in this digital age – applies in the future.

Service tech­ni­cians will be fitted out in a next step. Only in the case of Produc­tion does the previous system remain unchanged. Contact with used cooling lubri­cants makes profes­sional cleaning essen­tial. 

“The new clothes are much lighter!”, enthuses Mario Ils (right, in the new T-shirt). Stefan Keller (left) is wearing the new sweat jacket, and Philipp Bink the new polo shirt.

System­atic distri­b­u­tion of the work­wear by colleagues in the assembly hall

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