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A Highly Rewarding Project RANK XEROX The house magazine of Rank Xerox Mitcheldcan A highly rewarding project THE EFFORTS of the Unified Job Evaluation team, which won a Corporate Team Excellence Award last December, have proved rewarding in more ways than one. The team members — trade union senior representatives Colin Butler, Allan Edwards, Billy Malsom and Rob Miles, and members of management Mike Cooper and Charlie Walker — agreed that their accumulated prizes, which amounted to nearly £6,000, should be divided equally between six charities chosen by them. Representatives of the charities were invited to Mitcheldean on Tuesday, 10 April, to meet the people who had made this possible and to receive their bumper cheques. Welcoming them, site director Representatives of the charities pose with their bumper cheques — and the members of the award-winning team. David Stokes spoke of the great emphasis that had been placed by donated to charity, he explained, campaign will be channelling Corkery of the Birmingham the company over the last decade thus providing further motivation. money to local charities, just like Children's Hospital said that their on improving both product and The team members were BBC's Children in Need (whose donation would be used mainly business quality. delighted to be able to pass on representative was unable to come for research into deformities of He explained how the team £953 to boost the funds of each of along to the presentation). new-bom babies and urology had been involved in developing six good causes. The vice chairman of the disease. and introducing a new job These were HTV West National Meningitis Trust, Ginny The cheque to Scoo-B-Doo is evaluation structure. "Through Telethon '90, BBC's Children in Clarke, told how the charity had being used to buy outright a new their hard work we at Rank Xerox Need, the National Meningitis been started up in Stroud by her infusion pump for administering Mitcheldean became one of the Trust and the Birmingham own daughter when her grandson small amounts of fluid to babies. first organisations in the UK to - Children's Hospital Surgical contracted the disease in 1985. "It will bear a plaque create a single bargaining unit." Research Fund, plus two closer to "We are committed to raising acknowledging that it was bought This achievement had resulted home — Gloucester Hospital's over £1 million for research; we with this donation," said Gary in the team becoming first Scoo-B-Doo and our own RX are expanding our welfare Barrett, a senior nurse at European and later Corporate Employees Charity Fund. department, funding vaccine Gloucester Hospital special care winners along with six other HTV West Telethon is programmes and have plans to baby unit. D&M/MO teams. participating in the nationwide expand to the Third World," she The RX Employees Charity The cash prizes which come ITV Telethon and their presenter, said. Fund was represented by Keith with such awards are traditionally Patricia Yorston, said that the Consultant surgeon John Horrobin, who told our guests how the fund had initially come into being, how it had supported Mitcheldean Plant — the Craig Johnson Appeal and ' award winners was continuing to serve local charities. From the left — "If* Our visitors all expressed their • Best Factories Award warm appreciation of the • Environmental Commendation donations and thanked the team for their efforts. • British Quality Award They were afterwards entertained to a lunch, hosted by personnel manager Robin Fyffe. Changes at top level PAUL ALLAIRE has been Paul Allaire has held a as chairman of Xerox and 23 years in manufacturing and elected chief executive officer variety of positions in chairman of the executive engineering management with of Xerox Corporation with financial planning and general committee. AT&T; most recently he was effect from 1 August. management. In 1975 he was In another change at top manufacturing vice president David Kearns, the named chief staff officer and level, Eric Steenburgh has for AT&T Network Systems. company's chairman and chief executive director for Rank been appointed president of executive officer, making the Xerox in London. He became the Information Products announcement, said: "Paul managing director of Rank Division as from 19 March. David Thompson has been has been with Xerox since Xerox in 1980 and returned to He is succeeded as senior appointed chairman of Rank 1966 and has come up through the USA in 1983 as senior vice vice president and general Xerox (UK). Succeeding Sir the ranks. He has been president and chief staff manager of Manufacturing Derek Hornby, who has now intimately involved with me in officer. He has been president Operations by Allan Dugan, retired, he will continue in his restructuring the corporation of Xerox and head of the who will have responsibility role as an executive director of during the '80s and setting Business Products & Systems for all manufacturing Rank Xerox and director of our strategic direction for the organisation since 1986. operations worldwide. Region 'B'. He joined Rank '90s." David Kearns will continue He has Joined Xerox after Xerox from IBM in 1965. Getting to Icnow us A MONTH after taking up his Then it was on to the training new appointment as the new vice centre where he saw different president for manufacturing aspects of its activities in operations world-wide, Al Dugan progress, and enjoyed a chat with visited Mitcheldean as part of a operators newly recruited for the •getting to know you" tour of developer housing operation now European manufacturing plants. installed in building 13. It was not planned, but a In the Open Learning Centre happy chance, that he came on the he saw people doing SMIP very day — 17 April — that saw computer-based studies and a the start-up of operations in the manual advanced skills test building 1 focussed factory with (MAST) being carried out. the 5012/14 showcase facility. A visit to the CAD/CAM This was his first stop on a site facility enabled him to appreciate tour which followed a various applications, such as management review, and computer-aided manufacture, Touring the focussed factory and everything looked brand new. facility layouts and electronic (below) studying a series of product Al remarked on the light and transfer of designs including a movers in the course of AGV open working environment and link-up with Fuji Xerox. development. the absence of clutter around the The final port of call was the workstations. He showed keen M2000 project room, where Al interest in the product mover and saw the illustrated assembly the planned progression to a low process demonstrated. cost automated goods vehicle. "He was particularly Phil King, M2000 project impressed with our M2000 leader, explained about the achievements and believed our preparations for the setting up of plans to be 'right on track'," said the 5018/28 in the same area; David Stokes. afterwards, our visitor was taken "He also commented to see a demonstration of single favourably on the general site cell build of these machines in the facilities, housekeeping and the existing facility in building 4, very commendable attitude of where the electronics facility from staff with whom he talked. Welwyn is being installed. "He is, he said, looking Earlier Al had been given a forward to doing business with full presentation of the electronics transition plan and he was most impressed with the progress made Al Dugan has a char with Fred Sheers In the training centre our visitor sees how recruits for the developer housing in a relatively short period in the in ihe pack area of5018/28 assembly. operation are being equipped for the job. relocation of this operation at Mitcheldean. Said site director David Stokes: "His general feeling was that if we were able to successfully manage the transition and establish electronics at Mitcheldean it would represent a tremendous opportunity for the site and its future." Continuing his tour, Al visited the harness assembly centre where he leamed of the work carried out for other Xerox plants and saw the use of video equipment for one of the JIT 2 showcase strategies. Development team make a timely move The engineering team led by Ken Osborne (fay Icjii- lur right is programme manager Mike Gii•een. A FEW years ago, Mitcheldean meet the customer requirements that their new working than splitting my group up." staff were to be seen working for this El Segundo product. environment should be equivalent February also saw the arrival alongside staff at Welwyn, in all Also reporting to Mike is to their existing one. of FPP staff, both Welwyn people functions and at all levels, during another long-serving ex- Lack of space made it and Mitcheldean assignees, who the development phase of the Mitcheldeaner — Ron Caldicutt, impossible to locate them have been conveniently 5046 mid volume copier. manager of forward procurement alongside the pilot build operation accommodated within building Today they are once again planning (FPP). as they had wished, but an 6/2, where they have the support working together as a team on the Making up the rest of the alternative location was found in of materials staff development of a new product. programme team are an equal building 7/3 and Dave Poyner Also working well with But there's a change in the number of systems engineering, (works engineering) who was planners during this time of scenario. This time they are co- software, electrical hardware and given the task of getting it ready intense change are small batch, located here at Mitcheldean where reliability test staff located at in a short time scale earned fuser and harness operations who the machine is to be Welwyn, and Mike divides his himself an accolade! are providing prototype, pre- manufactured.
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