November 2004 Chapter
News
Dear SME Member,
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT - Everyone is
invited!
Hey folks, I had a couple of people ask me
if they could come to our events if they are not an SME member. The
answer to that is: of course. We welcome anyone with an
interest in Manufacturing and or Engineering. Our goal is to provide
meetings with interesting content where you will say, "WOW!" We hope
that you will have several action items to take back to your
company. So if you are a Technician, Supervisor, Mfg. Manager,
Accountant, HR Professional, Banker, Industrial Sales Rep., any kind of
Engineer, or anyone alive and breathing come on out and join
us! Again, most of our meetings are completely free for members as
well as non-members and this is the only place in the upstate where you
can get a "Free Lunch."
The month of October was another great month
for our chapter with both meetings filled almost to capacity. We
would like to thank Datasteam for hosting the Lunch and Learn.
Data Stream did a great job, and they have excellent meeting
facilities. 34 people committed to improving their careers and their
companies. The feedback on the forms was excellent. Let's give a big
thanks to Datastream.
For those of you who missed the evening
meeting, you missed one of the new gems of the Upstate. Ken
Williams, Greenville Tech's Motorsports Industry Liaison, hosted the
Greenville Tech Motorsports tour. For those of you excited about
ICAR, this is the sister program where the classroom work focuses on
"hands-on" instruction. It was a long evening, and I could tell that
people were really rev'd because some of us were still touring after 10:00
pm. If you have to ask why, check out the pictures below.
There is a class at Greenville Tech where you actually get to build (yes,
you) a race car from the ground up. The first part of the class
focuses on assembling a racecar from race-ready production parts.
Once the team has assembled one car in this manner, then they have the
opportunity to build a race car from scratch. We're talking straight
steel bars and flat sheet metal being assembled into a real race
car. Most of the folks in the class are over 30 years old and are
currently employed. They are taking this class for fun. If you
are interested, give Ken a call. I'm sure that he will spend some
time with you and explain the program. However, don't blame me if
people start calling you a "Motorhead" I know that this tour had a profound impact on the
people there, and I'd like to say something about our chapter - namely one
of our outstanding Board Members, Tracy Watson. Tracy works for
Assetpoint during the day, and is now working with Greenville Tech
Motorsports' Marketing 101 class better known as "Motorheads 101" to
market the USAR 2005 race car and program. Tracy Watson believes that
Motorsports could be the catalyst for the next generation of
engineers.
We were all so excited about this program
that I asked Ken and Lee Reid, VP of Smith Engineering to send some
pictures and other info on the car. Here's a little something to
"start your engine." I hope that some of you will consider signing
up for the class as a wonderful hobby.
If you are interested in the national write
up, follow the link:
http://www.usarprocup.com/view_article.asp?id=760
Thanks again to those who made these
excellent events possible.
Above:
Todd Steen, BFGoodrich Tires motorsports marketing manager,
congratulates Ken Williams, Greenville Tech's motorsports industry
liaison, on a job well done.
Student-Built
Race Car Debuts in Las Vegas
USAR
Friday, October 29, 2004 Greenville, SC- The Hooters ProCup Series first
"ride-along" race car, built by students of Greenville Technical
College, will be unveiled at SEMA, the world's largest automotive
products show held in Las Vegas, on Nov. 2.
The unique
promotional show car is jointly sponsored by BFGoodrich Tires, Lucas
Oil, USAR and Greenville Tech's McKinney Regional Automotive
Technology Center.
This Month's Meetings
Lunch
and Learn - with our
own Jason Premo
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 16th from
11:30 until 1:00
LOCATION: Right off of I-385 between Roper Mtn. Road and Haywood
Road. We will be meeting at The Turner Insurance Agency's new
building just up Halton Road from Backyard Burgers,
etc.
637 Congaree Rd., Ste. C
Greenville, SC 29607-3500
864-288-9513
PLEASE RSVP: to Andrew
Wyse , rsvp.sme164@gmail.com
or 678-427-2891. RSVP is required, and seating is limited to
the first 40 who RSVP. A Note from Jason:
Hello SME team,
I would like to host my
November lunch and learn at a location central and convenient to everyone
(or at least to the majority). The Lean Sigma executive introduction
training has a "street value" of between $500 - $1000 depending on which
consulting agency you go for training (TBM, George Group, ASQ, etc)…so we
are definitely providing a high value session to our SME attendees…and
lunch to boot! My goal is to maximize attendance and give you
something to take home.
Lean – Six Sigma:
Continuous Improvement Strategy Introduction
Lean-Sigma is a proven continuous improvement
methodology that helps manufacturers solve complex problems to rapidly
improve cost, quality, delivery, and responsiveness to the end customers
in all organizational processes.
Lean-Sigma integrates the process variability
reductions tools of Six Sigma, the process cycle time reduction and waste
elimination tools of Lean Enterprise within the disciplined
problem-solving methodology of Six Sigma.
This methodology represents the Black Belt Body of
Knowledge, while also applying Lean Manufacturing techniques such as pull
systems, 5S, Setup Reduction, Total Productive Maintenance, Kaizen, and
much more.
This session will present the attendee
with an overview of the implementation methodology and the synergy
achievable through Lean and Six Sig Sigma
tools. A case study will be
presented from the presenter's own Lean-Sigma team experience and
demonstrate a typical example of the metmethodology in action.
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Jason P. Premo recently joined
nMetric®, LLC in July 2004 as the Vice President of Marketing and
Communications. Founded in 2000 near Costa Mesa CA, nMetric's
patented 4C@Site® Collaborative Production Management (CPM) software
is one of industry's first 100% pure web-architected solution that
provides manufacturers with powerful tools for lean production
scheduling, resource management, manufacturing execution,
work-in-process tracking, proactive alerting and messaging while
creating a real-time link from the factory floor to enterprise
business systems and the supply
chain. |
Jason brings to nMetric
more than 10 years of experience in manufacturing having served in a
variety of Engineering, Project Management, Team Leadership, Plant
Management and Senior Executive roles for companies as large as $4 Billion
and as small as $40 Million in revenue.
No matter what the role or company size, Jason has always
been a strong hands-on Continuous Improvement Champion and has
successfully led more than 45 combined Lean Manufacturing and Six-Sigma
initiatives in five countries.
Jason holds a Bachelor's
degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of
Technology in Atlanta , GA and is a
certified Lean Manufacturing-Kaizen Facilitator and Six Sigma Black Belt.
Jason is a frequent guest speaker at many industry events and conferences
presenting on a wide variety of topics from practical Lean-Six Sigma
implementation to the latest real-time factory floor to enterprise
information technology trends and best practices.
He is the President-elect
for the Greenville Society of Manufacturing Engineers and is President of
the Georgia Tech Greenville-Spartanburg Alumni Association. He is also a senior member of the
American Society for Quality, Association for Manufacturing Excellence,
Institute of Industrial
Engineers , and International Society of Six Sigma
Professionals. In his spare
time, Jason and his wife
Kelly enjoy hiking the
Appalachian Trail , fishing, running, martial arts,
white-water kayaking and golfing.
He sometimes even keeps his golf balls on the same fairway if he's
lucky that day.
Evening Meeting - "The Manufacturing,
Engineering and Technological Innovations of the Hunley, the World's
First Successful Submarine" presented by Jack E. Marlar of Fountain
Inn , SC
South Carolina is home of one of the most
attended Maritime events of our decade which focused on the discovery of
the long lost CSS Hunley. The Hunley was the first submarine to sink
an enemy ship. As scientists and engineers uncovered this submarine, the
have all agreed that the CSS Hunley was ahead of its time, since it had
advances in submarine technology that would not be seen for another 60
years. This is guaranteed to be one of the most unique, interesting
and inspirational events SME has ever sponsored.
Jack Marlar's
Bio: Compatriot Marlar is the
first Field Representative for the S.C.V.
and a life long resident of the Palmetto state. Jack was a production supervisor
for the last 11 years and purchasing agent for a machine manufacturer for
the previous 16 years. He also has
been an instructor for Piedmont
Tech.
College .
Recently Marlar has led several tours to historic sights in
Charleston ,
Columbia and Washington , GA with all the proceeds benefiting the
16th SCV Museum , Greenville , SC or the Friends of the Hunley.
Jack's credentials include:
-
Past SC Div. Judge Advocate Gen. & Past Brigade Commander
-
Past Com. of the
16th Regt. SC Volunteers Camp in Greenville
,
SC
-
Past Com.
S C Div. of SCV for six years and Past Com.
of ANV
-
Recipient of the national Robert E. Lee Gold
Award
-
Chief
Technical Advisor to the Hunley Commission
-
Past member of the Board
of Directors of the Confederate
Museum
in
Greenville , SC
-
Founder and
Past Com. of the celebrated Palmetto Light Artillery
reenactors
Jack has worked
extensively with the SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology building
tooling to disarm and restore the four Confederate Artillery pieces found
in Chester , SC,
one of which was sleeved and made an active shooter.
Jack has built numerous WBTS artillery cannon and carriages, including a
full scale 12lb. Confederate Coehorn Mortars. The Palmetto Light Artillery has
been engaged in several live fire demonstrations with their field guns and
mortars. This unit is well
known for giving extensive displays of the "Art of the Artilleryman" and
how the fusing was timed for shells.
DATE/TIME: Monday,
November 22 from 7:00 pm until 8:30pm
LOCATION: to be announced
PLEASE RSVP: to Andrew Wyse , rsvp.sme164@gmail.com
or 678-427-2891. RSVP is required and seating is
limited to the first 40 who RSVP.
Automation and Assembly
Summit
The Automation and Assembly
Summit will take place on April 18 – 20, 2005 at the Sheraton Westport,
Lakeside Chalet in St. Louis, Missouri. Aptly themed, " Achieving World Class Manufacturing with
Advanced Automation," presenters will talk about updates
on research and advances in the latest automation and assembly technology
and management strategies designed to achieve global competitive
advantage. We would like to invite you
to submit an abstract topic for consideration. To review
session and conference topics and the call for presentations/papers, visit
www.sme.org/automationassemblysummit.
The committee is requesting your support by speaking, attending, or
participating in the development of this AMAC flagship
event!
The Automation & Assembly Summit 2005
is a conference and exhibits event that is developed by the community
members as a benefit to the AMAC community. The conference will
address issues on helping the manufacturing community be productive and
competitive through the use of advanced automation and assembly processes.
Global success means bringing innovative products to market faster than
ever.
There will be plant tours on
April 18th that feature state of the art automation and assembly processes
and operations at the Ford Plant, Boeing and Anheuser Busch facilities.
The exhibits will run on April 19, 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. and on April 20 from
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
As a very focused event,
participants will benefit from meeting and having face-to-face interaction
with highly qualified and diversified technology users, members of
academia, government contractors and other corporate executives from
various industries, including aerospace, defense, electronics, automotive,
food processing, packaging, and biotechnology.
If you have any questions,
give Dolores a call or shoot her an e-mail.
Dolores
Nixon
Community
Relations Manager
Automated
Manufacturing & Assembly Community
Society of
Manufacturing Engineers
One SME Drive,
P.O. Box 930
Dearborn, MI
48121
E-mail: dnixon@sme.org
Phone: (313)
425-3225
Fax: 313-425-3415
www.sme.org/ama
Greater Smoky Mountain , Chapter 107 announces
the 2nd Annual SOMSET
- "Status of Manufacturing Summit – East Tennessee "
Speakers:
Ralton Emory, Chair – Chapter 107
Jack Helmboldt – VP, Denso Manufacturing Tennessee, Inc.
Rick Meredith – EDC Assistant Commissioner, State of
Tennessee
The
Society of Manufacturing Engineers has a vested interest in the continued
growth of this segment of the economy.
For this reason, we would like to invite you to participate
in our 2nd Annual "Status of Manufacturing in
East Tennessee
" Summit
that is scheduled to
be held on Tuesday, November 16th at the Knoxville-Airport
Hilton.
Our keynote speaker this year is Assistant
Commissioner of Business Development Rick Meredith. The state of
Tennessee
has made great strides in
developing the state economy.
Mr. Meredith will give an update on our progress.
The opening
speaker will be Jack Helmboldt.
Mr. Helmboldt is the Vice President of the Instrument Cluster
Division of Denso Manufacturing Tennessee, Inc. (one of the area's largest
manufacturing employers). He
will update us on Denso's community development efforts.
Date: November 16 ,
2004
Location:
Hilton – Knoxville
Airport
Time: 6:00 P.M. Dinner – Cash Bar opens
at 5:30 pm
Cost: $5.00 for SME Members, $8.00 for
Non-Members – Sign up for SME that evening and attendance is free.
RSVP:
Seating is limited.
Please
pre-register at:
www.sme107.org
Additional Notes
American Successes - America Can Compete
Globally
Here's a short note from a friend of our chapter who
just moved down from NY:
Gary,
I just wanted to let you know about another
semiconductor manufacturer (IBM) who has learned that with newer
manufacturing technology, they can produce chips economically in the U.S.,
and do not necessarily have to move their operations overseas. IBM opened
the 300mm fab in Fishkill NY, and I think is
looking to open another fab in the U.S. They just need to get their yields
up. And we in the U.S need to improve the science and math education of
our children, as these newer fabs use fewer workers. Therefore, the
desired education level for the remaining workers increases since the
manufacturing involves more computer & systems effort than manual
labor. I hope you are doing well.
Heather
Welcome
New Board Members
The Board of Directors of
Chapter 164 is pleased to announce yet another outstanding new Board
member, Mr. S cott
Culberson
Scott earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Clemson in 1982.
At
Hoechst's PET film plant in Greer he contributed new product lines,
fundamental technology developments in winding & drawing, and led a
45% expansion on Hoechst's highest-rate PET film line worldwide.
Scott spent several years at Michelin Research in a
progression of tire design roles including 18 months in Clermont-Ferrand,
France as liaison for multi-plant, international exchanges of tire lines
& know-how. For 3 years he led Michelin's "school" apprenticing
development professionals from 13 plants and research in design for
manufacturability.
Scott joined Stueken as Plant Manager in 1997 and led the
German-based start-up to QS-9000 and single-source supply of critical
automotive and electronic stampings.
Since 2000 he has served as Operations Manager at
Trelleborg-Prodyn Inc. (mfg. & distribution of injection-blow-molded
automotive boots) and Prettl Electric (mfg. & distribution of
automotive wire harnesses). Scott has specialized in implementing quality,
safety and environmental systems, and practical application of Lean and
Constraints for productivity, business process streamlining and
competency-based systems for associate development.
Please feel free to contact Scott at: KOLIBRI@peoplepc.com
or by phone at:
864-979-1514.
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