World's Fifth-Largest Electronics Component Distributor Protects Products and Sta? With Slice Tools Digi-Key's electronics products are extremely sensitive. Even their packaging has to stay pristine. Andrew Bourne, Digi-Key's manager of operational excellence, employs Slice's limited-blade-depth tools to protect Digi-Key commodities while improving safety for workers. Like all change, the introduction of Slice® blades met some resistance. The safety blade and di?erent handle shape took some adjustment. Employees' perspectives shifted, says Bourne, after his teams saw the blades in action. "Once we walked the ?oor and showed them some of the intended bene?ts of the new tools and how they were designed with [employees'] health in mind, their acceptance of them changed. It moved from being an

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