The Brunswick Corporation, a Navassa boat company, announced Thursday that it's shutting down.
Nearly 300 workers will lose their jobs when the factory closes.
Company executives say the poor economy has eroded the demand for boats.The Brunswick Corporation plans to close four manufacturing plants across the United States, costing nearly 1,500 workers their jobs.
A Plant Rat works in the plant, factory, refinery, or processing facility. Somehow we learn to navigate the maze. Here we can exchange information, ideas and questions to help us improve the manufacturing process. We must reduce variation and standardize our work to produce the best quality possible.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Plant Closings 1
I am sure we will be seeing more plant closings.
Food Quality
Quality is important for fresh foods as well as for manufactured goods. Cases of E. coli outbreaks are becoming more common, at least to my perception. I would be interested in hearing from experts in the food management industry about common methods to prevent E.coli outbreaks and how those controls may be failing.
An interesting fact is that due to the time required for an outbreak to become identifiable and the perishable nature of the food, sometimes the evidence is lost.
An interesting fact is that due to the time required for an outbreak to become identifiable and the perishable nature of the food, sometimes the evidence is lost.
California is the source of E. coli-tainted iceberg lettuce suspected to have sickened 36 people in Michigan, officials said Thursday.
The culprit probably is industrial-size packages of iceberg lettuce sold to restaurants and institutions, according to the Michigan Department of Community Health.
Although lettuce is the "common link" among all the cases, the produce is so perishable that state agencies were not able to test packages produced during the outbreak's time frame, Holton said. So far, all tests for E. coli in lettuce have come back negative.
Job Losses
Much of the current news about the economy is focused on the stock market. However, the credit crunch is having far reaching effects. Without going into all the linkages, one result is a slow down in business and the resulting job losses.
Increasingly skittish employers dropped the ax even harder in September, chopping payrolls by 159,000 - more than double the cuts made just one month before. It was the ninth straight month of job losses. A staggering 760,000 jobs have disappeared so far this year.
Inauguration Day
Today is inauguration day for the site for plant rats. Plant rats are people working in our factories, plants, refineries, or anywhere where materials are transformed into saleable goods.
I hope to provide useful links for information about manufacturing and quality topics.
I hope to provide useful links for information about manufacturing and quality topics.
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