TOTAL PROCESS RELIABILITY 2019 - A YEAR IN REVIEW
Written by, TPR Coordinator, Mike Woody
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November 2019, we passed the two-year mark on our TPR journey at Ajax Paving. We have come a long way in 2019 identifying and taking action on areas needing improvement. We have been successful in our TPR endeavors because of you - the members of the Ajax Team and the TPR Focus Teams. Below is a summary of what each team accomplished and where we plan on going in 2020 with each team.
OPERATOR CARE Chad Schmidtke led the operator care team with team members Tommy Kidd, Dale Purcell, Lee Strauss, Andrew Cary, and Dejan Vujaklija. The team developed operator care standards for skid steers, asphalt rollers, live-bottom “flowboy” tractors/ trailers, and our triaxle dump trucks. The team also developed quarterly operator care training and facilitated those training events at the area shops throughout the year. The events trained operators and supervisors in the proper care of equipment. One of the final achievements of the team was to stock file boxes with operator care standards at each area crew supply room, enabling foremen and operators to have access to new standards when the existing ones are damaged or missing. In 2020, the operator care team will begin developing operator care standards for all of our grade crew equipment and facilitate quarterly operator care training events for those equipment operators and foremen.
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AUDIT TEAM Mike Morgan and Jayson Brown led the Audit Team with team members Ginger Johnson, Sam Loumani, Jared Hardy, Matt Horan, Jason Prokopetz, and Steve Ayers. The purpose of the audit team is to ensure that operators and crewmembers are performing operator care by scheduling supervisors in each area to conduct an audit of equipment every 6 months. The team this year developed a method to schedule, record, and track equipment and shop audits. The team also coordinated training auditors and creating audit forms for the equipment with completed operator care standards. In 2020, the team will expand the audit program to include grade crew equipment, flowboy tractors/trailers, and other class B equipment.
WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN OUR TPR ENDEAVORS BECAUSE OF YOU.THE MEMBERS OF THE AJAX TEAM AND THE TPR FOCUS TEAMS.
Ajax Paving Industries of FL, LLC - Annual Magazine
