CIP 2011 4th Quarter & Year End Winners
by Garett Meiners
The Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) is a program where employees may submit suggestions on ways that they think can improve Crest Foods. These suggestions may help improve overall efficiency, employee safety, sanitation, record keeping, maintenance and various other areas around Crest Foods. In exchange for their suggestions, each employee is rewarded with a $5.00 gift certificate to our Crest store. At the end of every quarter, all of the suggestions are evaluated and top suggestions will receive a cash prize up to $250. At the end of our fiscal year, the top CIP suggestions will be reevaluated and employees could receive a cash prize up to $1000.
Mark Smith Year End Grand Prize Winner • $1000
Mark’s idea was to create a tool-less carton flight. The concept is to have a “notched” flight that will snap into place on the flight chain on all horizontal cartoners. The movement of the chain will help to hold the flight in place as the cartoner is running. Then when we want to go to a different carton size the flight can come off the chain and be replaced without the need for tools. Currently changing flights on a cartoner for a changover is one of the more tedious jobs and this improvement would definitely help to expedite that process.
8 Crest Ink October, November & December 2011
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online