2018 CIP Annual Winners Announced!
The Crest Foods Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) successfully completed its 26th year on July 31, 2018. With 82 suggestions to choose from, the Suggestion Committee had a tough task of choosing this year’s annual winners. Many suggestions have been implemented throughout the year, and some proved to be great suggestions and ideas from our employees. Thank you to everyone who partici- pated in the program this year! At the Year End Celebreation, we were happy to announce that this year’s Grand Prize Winners are Jerry Maronde and John Messenger from B-Shift Maintenance. Jerry & John’s idea was to modify auger hoppers in order to
make product trap points (which are potential allergen problems) in the equipment much easier to clean. It was also a big improvement for employee safety as it made changing tooling significantly safer. This has been implemented on 3 so far, and are in the process of modifying the rest. They received $1000.00 for their suggestion. Congratula- tions, and thank you!
Hannah Derksen, Production B-Shift & Jeremy Hammonds, Maintenance B-Shift Runner Up • $500 split
Hannah & Jeremy worked together on line 24 to make it so that the line stops picking cups when the filler is running low on powder, which means that we won’t have a ton of kickoff at the checkweigher. This might only be a few packages on most of our lines, but on the cup line this is a problem because it could be dozens of cups. When the filler has enough powder in the filler cone, the line starts picking cups again.
Hannah Derksen
Candy Koch, QA A-Shift Runner Up • $500.00
Candy’s idea was to update the current micro hold program in order to avoid inadver- tently releasing product when it shouldn’t be released. This has been implemented and now finished product will stay on micro hold even if it is released from a quality check.
Jeremy Hammonds
Hannah Derksen, Production B-Shift Runner Up • $250.00
Hannah’s idea was to run line 24 at half speed if we were short on people. By drop- ping cups every other row, it would allow the line to run at half speed with less people.
Candy Koch
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