CIP 2016 1st Quarter Winners The Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) is a program where employees may submit suggestions on ways they think can improve Crest Foods. These suggestions may help improve overall efficiency, employee safety, sani- tation, 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. We received 47 suggestions from employ- ees for the 1st quarter. Thank you to everyone for participating!
Julie Tomblin (QA B-Shift) 1st Quarter 1st Place • $250
If we could make the barcode scanners “key operated” to eliminate the possibility of disabling them. For example: If Maintenance needs to work on a problem they could put their key into the barcode scanner and disable it. When they are finished, they remove their key only when it’s then enabled, almost like a lock out, tag out.
Keith Smith (Maintenance A-Shift) 1st Quarter Runner Up • $150
On the Thermo Ramsey vs. checkweigher cut the drive shafts in half and use a split collar to hold in place, making changing the belts a 5 or 10 minute job instead of 30- 45 minutes. Regina Bonnell (Maintenance C-Shift) 1st Quarter Runner Up • $150 For the Spee-Dee cup fillers, make and use plastic guards. Use 3 separate guards that go on each side instead of the 1 piece of bent sheet metal. The sheet metal does not hold it’s shape when taken on and off for inspections and repairs. The guard eventu- ally will not line up with the tapped screw holes.
The Crest Family Mourns by Teri Wolber Recently, we lost a longtime friend of Crest, Bob Chermak. Bob, his wife Laura along with their daughter Joyce Daniels, have managed a warehouse in CA that held Crest product for the Ingredi- ent Division for the past 36 years. Needless to say they are part of the Crest family. Bob and Laura had retirement in sight when Bob passed away unexpectedly. Whatever needed to be done to keep our customers happy, they did. If that was staying late to load a truck, or (years ago) putting product in their own vehicle and delivering to the customer to keep them from shutting down production, the Chermak’s did it AND did it with pride and enthusiasm. Bob served proudly in the Marine Corp and was still very active in the VFW. In fact some of his friends referred to him as “Mr. VFW”. Bob and Laura have 4 children, 8 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Bob served his country, family, the Crest family and friends well. May he rest in Peace. He will be greatly missed!
January, February & March 2016 Crest Ink 13
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