October 2004 Chapter
News
Dear SME Member,
As fall quickly approaches,
we are maintaining our momentum from the summer. This past month was
another good month for our chapter with both meetings giving value-added
items to take back to your plant. We would like to thank Tim Gillig, Regional Manager of Livingston &
Haven, for hosting the Lunch and Learn. We even had
several folks drive all the way from Tennessee for this
event. We would also like to thank our host Jon McClure,
President of ISO Polyfilms in Gray Court , for
opening his plant for us. Jon started his company in 1997 with a
dream and a great business plan. He is now ready to start a huge
expansion. I think that everyone walked away excited about the
future. Thanks again to those who made these excellent events
possible.
Your Chapter also
held a Board of Directors meeting last night and there were many great
ideas. We are excited about the new people in new positions and the
exciting year ahead. Everyone is in complete agreement that the
meetings must be fun, exciting, and give you action items, or "take away"
items that help you in your career. We have an exciting year planned
and our special thanks to Don Kier for our new website which we will role
out in the next few weeks.
The other wonderful
news is the number of folks who accepted positions for next years'
Board of Directors. Here is our current
lineup.
- Chair – Bob
Ludvig
- Chair Elect
for 2006 – Jason Premo
- New
Membership Chair – Tracy Watson
- Membership
Retention Chair – Larry Brewer; Tim Jackson
- Newsletter
Chair – Gary Tompkins
- Website Chair
- Don Kier
- Treasurer
- Gavin Waters
- Program Chair
– David George/Robby St. Louis
- RSVP Chair –
Andew Wyse
- College/HS
Relations Chair – Dee Kivett/ Yong Huang/ Robby St. Louis
Gary
Tompkins, Chapter Chairman for 2004, is very pleased to announce that
Tracy Watson was honored with our chapter's President's
Award for distinguished service to our Chapter. Tracy
has jumped on board and quickly accepted responsibility for
making our chapter a "Benchmark Chapter" as stated by SME
National. We thank her for her hard work!
And
here's an encouraging article. Gary just wanted to be sure you knew
that there are still big companies committed to working in the US.
Click on the link below for the full story. " U.S.
Can Still Compete with Rest of World in Semiconductor Manufacturing and
R&D, Texas Instruments Executive to Tell at Upcoming ISMI
Symposium"
Competitiveness
Article
This Month's Meetings
Lunch and Learn
Datastream provides
Asset
Performance Management software and supporting services to enterprises
worldwide, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500. This month's Lunch and Learn at Datastream will focus on
"Improving Productivity and Equipment Uptime through Computerized
Maintenance Management Systems."
Is
your company interested in controlling and driving down costs? Do
you need to improve worker productivity? Increase equipment
uptime? Control and understand maintenance and repair costs?
Then come learn how asset performance management through the use of
computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) can improve your
operations.
DATE/TIME: Thursday, October 28th from 11:30 until
1:00
LOCATION: Datastream Building 50 Datastream Plaza,
Greenville, SC 29605
PLEASE RSVP: to Gary Tompkins, gary@thekiddergroup.com
or 864-271-8880. RSVP is required and seating is limited to the
first 40 who RSVP.
Evening Meeting
SME tour of Greenville
Tech's Motorsports Technology Center
The MotorSports Technology
program at Greenville Technical College has teamed up with Don Satterfield
Racing to help provide real "racing world" experience to students seeking
to learn more about motorsports. Greenville Tech's Motorsports program is
housed in the 94,000 sq. ft. McKinney
Regional Technology Center on 227 North Pleasantburg Drive
in Greenville , SC. All the MotorSports Technology
(MST) classes are held in the evenings and on weekends.
This massive
facility also houses Greenville Tech's daytime official General
Motors and Nissan training programs, auto body programs, diesel engine
programs, and the new Street Rods and Customizing program. Don Satterfield
Racing houses and maintains his USAR Hooters Pro Cup racing effort in this
facility. He utilizes student help for preparation and crewing. It houses
a show room with street rods, race cars and new
vehicles donated by both business and industry in the
region. At the heart of the building are 10 multimedia equipped
classrooms, computer labs, offices, and state-of-the-art equipment
used to train technicians in autobody, automotive, diesel,
motorsports and street rods, and customizing
programs.
Ken Williams, Motorsports
Industry Liason, will address the group briefly to tell about the
program, then he will lead us through the facility. Ken will also discuss
the completion of the assembly of a USAR Hooters Pro Cup Ride&Drive
two-seat race car about that time. They plan on conducting a shake down
test at Jefferson , GA on a weekend around the middle of
October. This car is going to SEMA around Halloween for a BFGoodrich VIP
"thrill" ride session at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The SME group
will enjoy seeing this "hands-on" educational program and
observe the student's handiwork.
DATE/TIME: Tuesday,
October 19th, 5:30 pm
LOCATION: Greenville Tech's
Motorsports Technology Center - 227 North
Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville ,
SC (located directly across from the entrance to
the Greenville downtown airport, or for those of you who don't
fly a prop plane... it's across From the Krispie Kreme Donuts and the
Phoenix Inn)
PLEASE RSVP: to Andrew Wyse, aowyse@hotmail.com
678-427-2891 . RSVP is required and
seating is limited to the first 40 who RSVP.
Welcome New Board
Members
The Board of Directors of
Chapter 164 is pleased to announce three new Board members:
Dr. Yong Huang is a
recent graduate from Georgia Tech with his Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering. Dr. Huang is the Chapter Chair for the new Student SME
Chapter at Clemson University. He will be assisting the students with chapter
activities and promoting our Chapter's activities throughout
Clemson.
Mr. Robby St. Louis
is working on his Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is
also an Assistant Research Engineer at the Clemson Engineering
Technologies Laboratory. Robby will be working to ensure that our
Board is providing stimulating and exciting meetings that appeal to the
Clemson students in all disciplines from Marketing and Sales through
Engineering.
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newsletter and a posting on our chapters' website. If you are interested,
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