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At Fibrek’s Fairmont Recycling Paper Mill there are times when 50+ trucks a day of recycled paper are coming into the facility and times when just as many are leaving with finished products. This number doesn’t include all the contractors, vendors, and other deliveries in and out of this facility on a 3 mile stretch of road. Unfortunately, not everyone takes pride and appreciates what mother nature has given us; but here at Fairmont, the employees are trying to improve our environmental foot print, make a difference out in the community and be good neighbors. We had about 11 employees, made...
Date: 30 Nov, 2010
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NEWS RELEASE Dr. Richard Kunkle November 30, 2010 SVC MCKENNA SCHOOL’S DR. RICHARD KUNKLE NAMED TO SHINGO PRIZE BOARD OF EXAMINERS LATROBE, PA — Richard F. Kunkle, M.D., FACEP, instructor in management and program director of Operational Excellence at the Saint Vincent College Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government, has been named to the board of examiners for the Research and Professional Publications Award and the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence. The Shingo Award promotes use of world-class operational excellence strategies and practices to achieve world-class...
MEDRAD wins 2010 Malcolm Baldrige Award Medrad Malcolm Baldrige Congratulations to MEDRAD who has recently won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Below is the press release. More on KCOE’s work with MEDRAD (click the MEDRAD link). MEDRAD HONORED FOR A SECOND TIME WITH PRESTIGIOUS MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD WARRENDALE, Pa., November 23, 2010 – MEDRAD, Inc., a business of Bayer HealthCare, today joined an elite group of only five companies that have received the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award more than once. MEDRAD, a market leader in computed...
5S in the Garage by Matt Rubright We (my wife and I) were tired of the constant clutter in the garage. The kids do a good job of always putting their toys inside, but it was just jammed in there every which way. One night about 6 weeks ago, I came home and my wife was so eager to show me what she implemented in the garage. I was surprised to see how neat and organized everything was- (see pictures). She had used the kids driveway chalk and marked out “parking” spots for each item. And my son is learning how to spell and write, so the last time we remarked the lines – he wrote in...
Phoenix Sintered Metals Expands Capabilities Press arriving at Phoenix Sintered Metals Phoenix Sintered Metals, Inc. stepped it up a notch today with the addition of the largest molding press to ever be utilized in the history of Brockway’s powdered metal ventures. Responding to requests from their key customers, Phoenix added an 825 ton Cincinnati press to their array of large presses. Phoenix will be following this with the addition of a large electric sintering furnace next week that will be automated to the press. According to Steve Leuschel, Phoenix Sintered Metal’s Chief Operating...
First off I’d like to thank KCOE for this opportunity to submit this guest blog about 5S. My name is Fred Findley and I’ve been fortunate to experience KCOE and their amazing Operational Excellence System for the past year. This brief blog is a story of how I took the information I learned from KCOE about 5S and applied it to my own personal (and sometimes cluttered) life. If after reading this blog you have any suggestions for me or my 5S system please comment below. If you have questions about 5S or any other topic, please leave them below and the KCOE guys might just respond with...
Thanks to Stephanie Fitzgerald and Don Orlando from Saint Vincent College public relations for the following article: RUFFSDALE STUDENT INTERNING IN BRANCH OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE LATROBE, PA – Adam Bradish of Ruffsdale, is working this summer as an intern at TRICARE Management Activity (TMA), a field activity of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness that was established by the Department of Defense in 2001. Mr. Bradish, who also interned last summer at TMA, is currently working under the supervision of Ms. Patricia Collins. TMA provides health care for 9.6 million...
