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- Need a Hand?
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- November 29, 2005, Improper roll handling boils down to one thing: loss. Lost workers, lost productivity, and perhaps most import, lost money. Product Focus Improper roll handling boils down to one thing: loss. Lost workers, ...
- Bits & Pieces With Bite
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2005, ... Sun-Times reports a Hewlett-Packard-commissioned study found “info-mania will damage [workers’] performance by reducing their mental sharpness.” Now you have an excuse for not keeping up with e-mail! Be ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- September 29, 2005, ... good idea. Consequences of such practice would include contaminated product, high factory maintenance costs, and health risks to workers. As an example, a laminator in one particular plant produced an ...
- Mastering RFID, Part 2
- (Archive)
- September 29, 2005, ... makes material more conductive. At the same time, relative humidity of more than 60% can be uncomfortable to workers, can cause equipment problems, and introduce contaminants into your system. In the early ...
- Climate Control
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2005, ... two things: a healthier environment for our workers and a cleaner product we can ship to our customers.” CONVERTER INFO: FLEXcon 1 FLEXcon Industrial Pk. Spencer, MA 01562 508/885-8200; flexcon.com ...
- Converting Industry News
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- July 30, 2005, ... the Finnish paper industry. Paperilitto, the Finnish Paper Workers’ Union, had been talking since November 2004 with employers over compensation for keeping mills open over the Christmas and midsummer ...
- Introduction to Roll Handling
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2005, ... more than one million workers suffer back injuries each year, and back injuries account for one of every five workplace injuries or illnesses. Further, one-fourth of all compensation indemnity claims involve ...
- Secured Solutions
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2005, ... is, but also what direction they are traveling from that door. So it records everybody that goes in and out." The facility is segregated so employee ID cards allow only workers to be in their authorized ...
- Technology - The Great Equalizer
- (Magazine)
- February 27, 2005, ... new definition, idle workers, idle equipment, rework, overproduction, inventories, and work in process are all waste. The Toyota Production System (TPS) or "lean" system, calls this waste Muda. And Muda ...
- How to Gain Ground
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2005, ... strategy, let them talk to the workers who are unemployed and explain to them the positives of the Wal-Mart ideals.—John Shreve, Midwest Imaging & Roller Services Another reader, who wishes to remain ...
- What's New in Narrow We
- (Magazine)
- September 29, 2004, ... of 2-8 ml thick, from 2-8 in. wide, and 4-99 in. long. Multiple rolls of tubing can be run simultaneously for higher efficiency, eliminating the need for workers to measure and cut custom bags by hand. ...
- Sonoco Helps Home Guard Get Homeland Security Products in Stores for National Preparedness Month
- (Archive)
- September 07, 2004, ... producing corrugated POP display and shipping materials at our Winston-Salem, North Carolina, plant." Sonco says, in Winston-Salem, from 500 to 1,000 temporary workers worked overtime and double-time, ...
- The 411 on RFID, Part 3
- (Archive)
- August 30, 2004, ... before the move from bar codes to RFID is complete." Not all the workers affected by the technology shift will lose their jobs, since others will be created within the new supply chains. However, efficiencies ...
- Investing in Success
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2004, ... toured the facility and offered formal remarks to workers, invited guests, and the media. Cheney chose to visit CEI in part because of its continued strong growth in today's economy and its recent effort ...
- Safety in Converting: Part III
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2004, ... case is an excellent example of a hidden housekeeping problem, many instances exist in which housekeeping problems are more overt. The same PE dust on the floor of the production area could cause workers ...
- Safety in Converting: Part II
- (Magazine)
- May 31, 2004, ... almost immediately not to place his hands anywhere near a nip. While that certainly is excellent advice, additional factors exist. For complete safety in the vicinity of a pinching nip, workers must ...
- Watch for New Overtime Regs
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- May 30, 2004, ... these rules will go into effect August 23. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the minimum wage is $5.15 an hour. Workers eligible for overtime are compensated at a rate of one and one-half times ...
- Safety in Converting: Part I
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2004, ... to someplace where the fumes will not harm workers, or workers must be provided with appropriate breathing devices. Converting lines that run a coated web through an oven obviously generate vapors; ...
- Aluminum Association to Participate in NAM's Coalition for the Future of Manufacturing in U
- (Materials)
- February 05, 2004, ... lack of skilled workers rising business costs AAI adds it has assumed a strong leadership role in government-relations activities at NAM, and it's urging its members to join the Coalition ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2004, ... The Laser Microgage 2000 allows workers to check alignment on production line. Said to be easy to set up and use, system will check mechanical straightness, slide and stage runout, surface flatness, machine ...