Rexam Beverage Cans Packed With Quality
Lighthouse Systems’ Shopfloor-Online
As
one of the world’s largest manufacturers of beverage
cans, Rexam’s quality processes must be above reproach,
lest industry giants like Coca-Cola and Dr. Pepper begin
to receive complaints about their products. In order to
maintain and improve quality standards, Rexam sought to
replace its existing quality monitoring system with a new
program that could report on local plant operations as well
as all 19 U.S. Rexam can plants.
Although Rexam already had a quality management system
in place at each plant, the company was faced with a host
of areas for improvement. At each plant, the history of
data retention was limited. In addition, the company was
unable to enforce its own standards for data collection
and reporting. Finally, reporting and analyzing data across
the plant was growing increasingly difficult to accomplish.
Rexam decided that a new quality monitoring system would
remedy the blemishes on its otherwise sound processes and
chose to replace its system with the Shopfloor-Online solution
from Lighthouse Systems Inc.
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Back to School: Teachers, Students Learn Quality
PQ Systems Training and Consulting
Services
Although much is made of quality
initiatives in the manufacturing industry, the movement
is also chipping away at the often-flawed edifice of educational
methodology. Vision systems and laser scanners track component
assembly on production lines from the beginning to the end,
but similar systems are unavailable to ensure that a sixth-grader
has completed his math homework. Instead, many students
are subjected to a traditional pre-test/post-test routine,
which gauges the effectiveness of an educational regimen
by comparing initial and eventual knowledge levels. Not
all schools are content with this educational crapshoot,
however. At Pekin Public School 108 in Pekin, Illinois,
the tide has turned and a qualitative sea change continues
to swell.
Pam Rosa, the principal at Pekin 108, already had a handful
of quality tools in her arsenal when she began working with
PQ Systems’ trainer Sally Duncan several years ago.
What she didn’t have--and what her institution lacked--was
a verified improvement cycle within which to implement those
tools. Pekin 108 displayed all of the earmarks for potential
quality resurgence: an enthusiastic staff, buy-in from the
superintendent and room for improvement. Duncan and PQ Systems
brought the school the plan-do-study-act system.
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