Ron Hamilton news about daysoft contact lenses

I attended Mossend Primary school, starting there 64 years ago.  Every year class P7 from my old school come to our Lens Laboratory to study some aspect of manufacturing business.  They are great children and I am very proud to be able to relate what we do at Daysoft to their school interest in 'enterprise'.  Ron.

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Dr Mark Hegarty and Enterprise Teacher Jean Murray explained the plan for the day for the visit to the Daysoft contact lens factory in Blantyre by 50 children and 5 members of staff from Mossend Primary School on Tuesday 23rd November.  The visits to Daysoft by the children in P7 is now an eagerly awaited annual event by the employees at Daysoft and an exciting outing by the children and teachers at the school.

 The visit last year was about how COMPUTERS are used in the design, manufacture and sale of contact lenses by Daysoft but this year the emphasis will be on PEOPLE; how Daysoft organises various business tasks, the skills that they need to do this and, of course, to see how business can be successful and fun when people cooperate to achieve exciting goals.

 The children, in groups of 10 were introduced to five different activities, from precision optical moulding, right through to how orders are received from around the world and despatched, often the same day.  The children were especially interested to learn how an order for 273,000 lenses was being sent to China.

 Engineers and Team Leaders shared their experiences and the tour demonstrated how a combination of individuals doing many different tasks, which, when properly organised in an open, honest and helpful way, can achieve great things.             

  Ms Murray says; "I thank the Daysoft staff for the time and effort in preparing for our visit. It has inspired the children and they certainly got the message that everyone has to work individually and together as a team which is what we have also been encouraging the children at school to do."