2015 Year-End CIP Winners Announced The Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) is centered around innovation and soliciting ideas and input from all
employees, which is a large part of our Culture here at Crest Foods. We’ve typi- cally had great participation in the program, and 2015 was no exception with 154 suggestions and ideas from employees. Trying to pick just three winners out of the group is always chal- lenging, but when the voting was said and done, we felt that our winners this
Marcia Breeden, Zygmunt Cichosz & Jerry Maronde year really embraced innovation and thinking differently. Not only do we want to thank our Year End winners, but we’d also like to thank all of the employees who submitted suggestions this year. Zygmunt Cichosz (Ingredient A-Shift) Grand Prize Winner • $1000 Zygmunt’s idea was to make a hopper to fit on the magnet box to dump small batches through the metal detector. We were using the particulate hopper from Room “E”. A lot of work and time was spent on installing and unin- stalling the “E” hopper, significantly reducing the amount of time and labor involved in the set up. This has been a great suggestion and improvement for the Ingredient Division, which now makes them able to metal detect smaller batches. Marcia Breeden (Parts Room A-Shift) Runner Up • $500 Marcia’s idea was to use a soft tip type material as a stylus to use on our equipment keypads. The goal was to stop the buttons on keypads from being broken by using hard objects like screw drivers. These keypads can be very ex- pensive to replace, and this idea turned out to be a creative way to fix a common and potentially costly problem. Jerry Maronde (Maintenance B-Shift) Runner Up • $500 Jerry’s idea was to replace air cylinder actuated flap tuckers with rotary flap tuckers that are machine driven. This improvement helps to improve how well flaps on cartons are tucked by providing more consistent operation and easier adjustment. Additionally, we were replacing 2-3 air cylinders a week at times which became quite costly and this improvement has gotten rid of that issue and saved Crest Foods money that we were spending on parts. We have had them in place for a while now, and it’s really proved to be a great improvement!
In August, Communication Meetings for the Contract Packaging Divi- sion were held over 2 days to cover all shifts and all buildings. These meetings covered many topics including a wrap up of the 2015 fiscal year; progress on the warehouse reconstruction; a new Healthy for Life Wellness program year; and results of the employee satisfaction survey.
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