NUMBER 02 - Haas Automation, Inc.

New Reality
With the challenging expansion into production
manufacturing alongside the custom-build television
demands, nearly everyone in the OCC shop, including
Quinn, is wearing a lot more hats these days: machinist,
designer, fabricator, engineer, assembler and, of course, TV
personality. Everyone has to be a little bit of everything.
“Yeah, that’s kind of what we’ve become,” confides
Quinn. “But this way, everybody knows the product a lot
better than when we were niched, always doing the same
job.” The change was absolutely necessary, he explains, to
get OCC to where it is today. “When you consider some of
the tight time frames we face, it’s obvious we can’t afford
a machinist-versus-designer standoff around here,” says
Quinn. “Everybody has to work together to put out bikes; our
systems have to be efficient.” The crew has to give Paulie
what he needs, when he needs it, and Senior what he wants,
when he wants it!
Left unsaid is the fact that they must now also face the
dogged demands of daily production.
After peering below the surface of OCC, it’s easier to
value Senior’s hard-nosed work ethic, and to appreciate why
nothing sets him off like “wasted time!” But, above everything
else, this is a business of talented, creative people influenced
by the imaginative minds of Paulie and Mikey Teutul. If there’s
any leftover time available, individuals like these will find a
way to fill it . . . with creative mischief.
So, when Senior has lobsters delivered, packed in dry
ice, it’s only a matter of time before a tightly sealed bottle of
dry ice chips and water is tossed out onto the floor, just
outside his office. When the bottle reaches maximum
pressure and explodes, so does Senior. The famous black
door flies open with a vengeance and, once again, the prolific
OCC shop becomes a video war zone, and it’s show business
as usual.
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