Category: Benchmark Request

Phoseon Technology wants to know about your experience with SPC software and whether you will recommend it: What SPC software (name of the product)? Experience using it - excellent, good, bad Recommendation - yes or no To provide feedback and support to this post: Please add your comment to this post on the NWHPEC website or contact Peng Kuah at [email protected].

Effective 1/1/2018, BOLI new overtime law updates mandate that employees at manufacturing/factory/mills can work no more than 55 hours a week unless they give one time consent to allow up to 60 hours a week.  Milwaukee Electronics runs 12 hour shifts 24/6 and 24/7, so this change may greatly impact our ability to cover vacation and sick leave.  How are other companies who run 10-12 hour shifts planning to handle this? What about coverage for other shifts? To provide feedback and support:  Please add your comment to this post or contact Sarah Williams at [email protected] or call 503-263-9103.  

Are any members are using automated performance metrics recorders?  For example, we are trying to use (www.shoplogix.com) and I am wondering if any members were using the same product or something similar. Dustin Ma Myers Container [email protected]

A-dec is working on creating an internship program for their Machine Shops.  They are looking for any information they can get from other companies running internship programs.  The types of questions they have are:  - How is the program structured?  - What school or schools is your company working with?  - Do the schools provide the intern's credits? If your company is running a program like this or you know a company that runs a program, please contact Jeremiah Davis at [email protected].   

Columbia Machine is updating our handbook and are curious as to whether other companies have put policies in place around beard length.  We have a policy in place regarding long hair in our manufacturing environments, but with beard lengths getting longer and longer the question came about should there be a policy that states how long they can be when working around machinery.  If any NWHPEC members have any information to share on whether they have instituted a beard length policy, we'd love to talk to them.  Thank you, Kelly Foy, HR Manager, 360-690-1366, [email protected]    

Toyo Tanso is looking at Sales Travel expenses.  What are other companies doing for per diems and for choosing accommodations? Thank you, Jim McLaughlin, Plant Operations Manager, P: 503.661.7700 Ext 342, C: 971.230.4312, [email protected]    

Columbia Machine is looking to revise its system of evaluating when an employee is ready to advance to the next level and what skills, tools, training, etc. they need.  Our current system is structured at levels 2-6 with an A&B level each.  The system is limiting and makes it difficult to advance past a level 3B without jumping through several hoops.  I am interested in learning how other machine shops assess their machinists to advance their employees and what their structure look like.  Please comment on this post or contact Aaron Ramsey, Machine Shop Supervisor at [email protected], Office 360.694.1501 x225 | cell 360.713.7037.