Crest Ink - Volume 30 - Number 04

Adam Giese, Maintenance B-Shift Runner Up • $250.00

Adam’s idea was to ground all of our flammable cabinets at the West Facility to prevent static electricity or fire. This was a great safety observation that was implemented right away at the West Facility.

Adam Giese

CIP 2018 4th Quarter Winners The Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) is a program where employees submit suggestions on ways they think we can improve Crest Foods. These suggestions may help improve overall efficiency, employee safety, sanita- tion, record keeping, maintenance and various other areas around Crest Foods. We received 23 suggestions from employees for the 4th quarter. Thank you to everyone for participating! Hannah Derksen, Production B-Shift 4th Quarter 1st Place • $250

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. This has been implemented already and is a great idea!

Hannah Derksen, Production B-Shift & Jeremy Hammonds, Maintenance B-Shift 4th Quarter Runner Up • $150 each

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. Great idea! Jeremy Hammonds, Maintenance B-Shift & John Messenger, Maintenance B-Shift 4th Quarter Runner Up • $150 each Their idea was to mount the fillers on lines 35 & 36 on the side and put split cones on them. This would make it safer & easier to take tooling down and put back up. This is a great idea that makes changing tooling much faster and safer.

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