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MANAGING TIMES A publication of TBM Consulting Group 4400 Ben Franklin Boulevard Durham, North Carolina 27704 800.438.5535 www.tbmcg.com Publisher Anand Sharma: a s h a r m a @ t b m c g . c o m Executive Editor William A. Schwartz: bschwartz@tbmcg.com Managing Editor Angela Scenna: ascenna@tbmcg.com Featured Columnists Marty Abbott Carl Deeley David Drickhamer David Pate Contributors Greg Anapol Doug Bonner Brian Henriksen Joe Kuehler
Gary Rascoe Anand Sharma Tonya Vinas
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ike Daw has been appointed Continuous Improvement Manager at Visiogen in Irvine, CA…Clint Belinsky has been appointed Global Vice President of Lean at MEMC in St. Peters, MO…John David has been promoted to Director of Lean and Safety at Pulse…Chris Wilson, Deployment Champion Director, retired from Amway in January 2010…Teresa Hay McMahon assumed new duties as Deputy Director of the Iowa Department of Economic Development in February 2010…Michael Pope was promoted to Director of Continuous Improvement at Franklin Electric. He will serve the entire company and work proactively with all business units at Franklin Electric to train people in the use of lean and six sigma tools as well as concept and implement an ongoing agenda of CI events. He will report directly to Scott Trumbull, Franklin Electric Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer…Rod Van Wart, CBO / CPM for the City of Des Moines, shared with us that a kaizen project they completed with Drake University and the help of TBM consultant Jim Scott, won national recognition by the Certified Public Managers…Patsy Wilber, Continuous Improvement-Ritter Lead, Joe Ayette, Executive Director of North American Operations, Mike Schaufele, Director Continuous Improvement, and Kevin Hogan, Vice President of CI, of Hill Rom are spearheading the transformation of “hospital bed” manufacturing which will help the company to become world class in the areas of cost, quality, and delivery while reducing inventories significantly…Shivani Garcha, Continuous Improvement Internal Consultant – Materials and Gerry Doyle, Continuous Improvement Director – Materials of Genzyme, continue to make inroads into the materials part of the value chain with significant improvement in incoming receiving and inspection, as well as pick, pack and ship. They are now targeting improvements within the procurement functions…Earl Ratcliff, Pella Corporation, is working with Emergency Response Services
for Latin America (ERSLA) to create systems to improve communities and save lives. Just a few days after the earthquake in Haiti, ERSLA begin working on a project to distribute chlorine generators to areas most in need in the devastated country. They raised money for 50 units and placed them in tent cities in Port au Prince and in hospitals managed by Doctors without Borders. Congratulations to our most recent graduates of TBM Lean Certification: Brian Wilkins, of Roscoe Steel…John Kolman and Steve Sweers of Amway…Heather Allen of Harsco Track Technologies…Brent Hickman of The Identity Group… David Hensley of Seaman Corporation...Steve Jorgenson of Trail King…Lappies Labuschagne and Greg Grisez of GrafTech…Bruce Charsky of CertainTeed Corporation…Matt Jacob of Saint-Gobain Abrasives…Michael Suarez of Mitsubishi Power Systems…Luca Corno, Vincent Gerdes, Shaun Morningstar, Elvin Sterling, Brian Sobyak, Simon Thompson, Dale Novak, Stephanie Kuznik, Anne L’Her, Emiel Ordelmans, Marco Pasqualin, and Tina Varga of Owens Corning…Diego Ibarra, Jorge A. Garza, and Christian Eden of Woodcrafters… Erick Perez of Vidriocar and Adolfo Villarreal of Copreci…
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