March 7, 2007

Meeting with Chad, Wendy & Becky Morgan

1. CNC
A. Racks to be set-up for work load storage
B. Chad to try a new machining center layout in one location

2. Frustrating Fixables
A. To be reviewed with all department captains

3. 5S
A. Wendy to develop layout for evaluation sheet - it will be completed by next week and reviewed with the captains at next week's weeting
B. All departments t0 have a peer review of their 5S progress
C. Employees to complete an evaluation for their own work area and and evaluation for the department as a whole

4. Receiving
A. We are going to develop a process for receiving raw materials, stock items and molds
i. This board will visually provide all employees and managers with the information required about arrival of goods

6. SMED (set-up reduction), standardizing process and mistake proofing were also discussed very briefly

7. Becky was given the rework hours form the beginning of the year. Chad and Wendy are to review all incident sheets and decided where we should initially concentrate our efforts.

8. 5S and general principles of LEAN were discussed with Mark. It was decided that we would concentrate our initial efforts in Assembly because of the volume of work that passes through that department. We are expecting to see great strides to completing SEPARATE & SORT by the end of next week

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