Entering Excellence with Boon Edam

Boon Edam

With Boon Edam, you'll get an unwavering commitment to protecting your entrances, employees and guests. This is Entering Excellence, your definitive guide to security solutions.

Episodes

  1. 06/06/2023 ·  Video

    Boon Edam, Ensuring the Success of Our Customers

    Boon Edam, Inc. is a subsidiary of a 150-year-old Dutch company, offering architectural revolving doors and security entrance solutions for various industries. Working with Boon Edam means personalized consultations, skilled technicians fabricating and assembling your entrance parts, and quality installations with preventative maintenance for long-lasting success. Trust us to provide tailor-made premium solutions for your building needs. Welcome to our world!

  2. 06/06/2023 ·  Video

    Providing a Complete Security Solution from Beginning to End

    Boon Edam delivers a complete solution from start to finish, including product, support through installation, and support after installation. Their focus on customer experience begins with their outside sales team, who listen closely to customer pain points. They have an entire team dedicated to project management and field support to see each project through production. Boon Edam also provides preventative maintenance and service repair options for its clients. The technical services team follows up with customers to ensure the experience exceeds expectations.

  3. 06/06/2023 ·  Video

    Maximizing Security and Efficiency: The Importance of Preventive Maintenance for Revolving Doors and Security Entrances

    Looking for a turnkey solution to keep your building's revolving doors or security entrances in top condition? Look no further than Boon Edam. Our Preventive Maintenance Plan offers scheduled inspections, repairs, and software updates, reducing downtime and saving you time and money. Contact us today to learn more about our premium products and unparalleled support beyond installation.

  4. 06/06/2023 ·  Video

    Unmatched Quality and Customization: Boon Edam Leading the Way in Security Revolving Doors

    Discover the craftsmanship behind Boon Edam's TourLock security revolving door at their 200,000 sq. ft facility in Lillington, North Carolina. With in-house fabrication and state-of-the-art machinery, each door is built to order for ultimate quality and cost control.

  5. 12/10/2020

    Boon Edam’s Constant Journey Toward Lean Manufacturing

    Lean manufacturing has become a buzzword in the production space over the last several years. Everyone wants to be the most productive. But, for Patrick Nora, President and Managing Director of Boon Edam Manufacturing USA, lean manufacturing as an ideal doesn’t matter if that productivity doesn’t follow on from safety and quality. “For us at Boon Edam, I wouldn’t say we are a lean manufacturing facility. I would say we are a facility that’s working toward lean manufacturing principles,” Nora said. “I think, for me, I define it as being on a journey, and it’s a goal that you will never achieve. You’re going after operational excellence with lean manufacturing process. It’s really important to view it that way, because lean manufacturing is building a learning culture.”

    Boon Edam’s Constant Journey Toward Lean Manufacturing

  6. 07/16/2020

    What It Takes to Join the ‘Iron Maiden of Security Companies’ with JC Powell

    What does a 147-year-old company have in common with a classic British metal band? It may seem far-fetched, but for JC Powell, Vice President of Sales Regional and National Accounts with Boon Edam USA, if his company were a band, there’s no doubt it would be Iron Maiden. There’s no Eddie the Head at Boon Edam, but the family culture and close-knit work groups make sure their employees and customers have plenty of peace of mind. “Boon Edam would be Iron Maiden, not because we have crazy, large, inflated heads that pop out behind screens, but, if you know anything about the band Iron Maiden, they are a large extended family. They travel together on a plane flown by the lead singer,” Powell said. “When you look at Boon Edam, from our president and managing director down, that same responsibility is taken. We view everybody as part of this family.” That family includes a number of Regional Sales Managers who have to create relationships and listen to customers to understand their needs. “What I’m really looking for in a potential candidate is somebody who is hungry, somebody who is humble, somebody who is a life learner, and somebody that is always curious, never complacent,” Powell said. “That goes back to the learning style and understanding, well, ‘Why did they buy my product?’” From there, the process becomes something that is replicable rather than a one-off. That’s how Boon Edam turned into a company that has plenty in common with a band that started in 1975 and is still rocking today.

    What It Takes to Join the ‘Iron Maiden of Security Companies’ with JC Powell

  7. 05/07/2020

    The Risks of Security Tailgating with Tracie Thomas

    In this podcast hosted by SDM Magazine’s Courtney Wolfe, Tracie Thomas, Vice President of Marketing at Boon Edam, discusses the results of a recent tailgating survey. This survey reached end users, security consultants and integrators to gather their perceptions about the risk of tailgating into their facilities. This podcast discusses the results to the following questions and more: What would be the cost of a tailgating incident to your facility? What strategies do you have in place to mitigate tailgating? Are you recording tailgating occurrences?

    The Risks of Security Tailgating with Tracie Thomas

  8. 04/30/2020

    Scalable Security: Wrong Decisions That Cost You Money with JC Powell & Brian Marshall

    Security is never a one-size-fits-all solution, and that's especially true for different types of building entrances, which have needs as unique as the companies themselves. On this episode of Entering Excellence, a Boon Edam podcast, host Shelby Skrhak sat down with Vice President of Sales JC Powell and Regional Sales Director Brian Marshall to discuss scalable security. "Companies are very different, even companies that offer similar goods or services to consumers," Powell said. "We never lump two companies as the same, even though they both may be data centers, financial or insurance companies." The concept of scalable security takes into account the unique needs businesses have for throughput, safety, technology and service. Boon Edam evaluates how people move through a client's building to better understand their needs. "How these companies exist within their own cultures really dictates what type of security entrance they would be interested in in order to promote and protect their assets," Powell said. Boon Edam helps companies educate their employees about the need and purpose of security entrances that both help keep their workforce safe inside and keep unauthorized visitors out. "We not only help companies implement the right security entrance, but we also help get their workforce to understand how to utilize that entrance," Marshall said. "Now you might think, 'What's so difficult about swiping a card at an entrance?' But we're helping promote employee education and communication long before the security entrance is implemented."

    Scalable Security: Wrong Decisions That Cost You Money with JC Powell & Brian Marshall

  9. 02/27/2020

    Selling the C-Suite on Physical Security

    From the experts at Boon Edam, here are tips for making the case for physical security systems 1. Introduce security awareness among all team members in your company, not just the C suite. Most team members understand the inherent threat of workplace or public venue security. Don’t tell your staff about security threats, teach them making staff members active participants in the companies awareness of insecure entrances, non-ID'ed visitors, and other security situations. This helps create ownership that executives want to see from staff. Using a security metaphor: don’t lock them out of awareness, but bring them in to proactiveness. 2. Make the case for ROI and risk versus reward. The most credible threat is not a global, catastrophic threat, but often a tangible threat in your own neighborhood, so to speak. Security technology providers can often offer concrete examples of security threats and subsequent solutions based on similar location, size of company or building, or intended purpose. Discussing the most common threat can lead to a productive ROI conversation about the best technology fit for your most credible threats. 3. Emphasize that security is not a one and done thing.  Once the technology is implemented, it’s easy to want to set it and forget it. But security should become a part of your company's fabric. Teach building management or IT staff how to troubleshoot common problems so that inadvertent gaps in security coverage don't boil down to, "The system wasn't working right, and I didn't know what to do." 4. Address management's concerns about the effect this physical security will have on company staff. Use terms like it’ll have a non-effect on personnel, which can help ease minds -- both management and staff. This helps underscore the point that the security solution is not difficult to implement or live with. Actually the best security system is one that works so seamlessly it’s not disruptive.

    Selling the C-Suite on Physical Security

  10. 01/21/2020

    The Ingredients of Making a Successful Company Culture with Valerie Anderson

    Host Tyler Kern spoke with Valerie Anderson, President and Managing Director of Boon Edam, about how businesses can build successful company cultures. Anderson's more than a decade's worth of experience in the building entrances and security industry gave her a first-hand opportunity to learn the secrets of what goes into a successful company culture. People are one of the great assets we have in an organization, and I think the way we continue to develop our people and attach them to the vision of the company is what gives them a sense of self-worth, Anderson said. She described her leadership role as putting herself in the employee's shoes, and envisioning a culture they'd want to work in. Anderson put emphasis on company vision and the importance of ensuring not only all employees understand the vision but are in the right positions to use their talents to further that vision. Later in the conversation, Anderson mentioned how successful company cultures should be customer-centric to the point of obsession. It's taking every part of your organization, no matter what your role is, and getting you to think, how would I want this customer interaction to go if I were in their shoes, said Anderson. Anderson wrapped up the conversation by discussing how she overcame various business challenges on her leadership path.

    The Ingredients of Making a Successful Company Culture with Valerie Anderson
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With Boon Edam, you'll get an unwavering commitment to protecting your entrances, employees and guests. This is Entering Excellence, your definitive guide to security solutions.

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