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AmcoNews
olume 47, Number 2
May 1991
Quality Is Key To Company Success
“Quality -- Only our best will
»! Product-Service-Attitude”
ads a sign in Adams-Millis’
nishing Plant in Kernersville.
tie key word is QUALITY!
The sign embodies a newem-
lasis being placed on quality
roughout the Adams-Millis/
Iver Knit operations and in-
)lves everyone in the organiza-
an.
“It’s our future. The only com
mies that wiU survive are those
at produce good quality prod-
:ts and service,” said Dick
)iter, Vice President of Manu-
cturing and Distribution.
This approach to better qual
ity is all encompassing from
securing the best quality raw
goods to the best knitting equip
ment to the best packaging proc
ess available.
“We must build in quality from
start to finish in the operation,”
Porter said. “Socks are no bet
ter than they are knit. Knitting
is the key to good quality.”
Improving quality is being ap
proached from several areas,
according to Mike Mabe, Direc
tor of Quality Control.
For the past few months power
to seaming machines in some
plants have been shut off every
45 minutes for 35 seconds to
allow operators to select three
socks at random and check for
quality.
“That allows for each opera
tor to check their work 10 times
during a shift,” Mabe said. “At
the end of the week they can
look at their chart and see what
their performance has been. They
can see if their seams met speci
fications.
“We urge them to provide
quality data,” he continued. “It
helps them to identify their own
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Kay McDonald checks sock size in Research & Development Center
using plexigias form.
Adams-Millis empipyees assisted
with Special Olympics competi
tion conducted recently in High
Point. Several hundred special
olympians participated in a
variety of events. At left, Bob
Elast and Joyce Roberts present
ribbon to Mandy Davis for her
performance in the bean bag
drop.
[lifesaving Effort
Employees Put CPR Course To Work
'When Mareta Howell and
Hanley Stone completed an
ight-hour cadiopulmonary
escusitation course in Febru-
ity, they had no idea they would
recalled upon to put what they
^ learned to use about a month
ater.
But when Mason Royal suf-
kred a heart attack on April 4 in
he Silver Knit plant in High
'oint, Howell was j ust a few feet
" 'ay and immediately went into
ion with some lifesaving steps,
le was joined a minute later by
tone who provided assistance
I saving Royal’s life.
“I would not have knowwhat
0 do if I had not taken that
Ourse,” Howell said as she re
lied on the situation recently.
When I saw him go down I
«gan going through the check-
tst in my mind to do what I was
Hpposed to do.”
Have someone call 911. Check
for a pulse. Check the airway.
Get him to respond. Get the air
flowing. She recounted them
again just as she did in her mind
that day.
As she went through the
checklist, she found that Royal
had a pulse but his airway was
blocked. She removed his den
tures and tilted his neck to reo
pen the airway and Royal re
sumed breathing.
“I just went step by step,” she
said.
Howell was so involved in
the process that she doesn’t recall
when Stone joined her to assist.
“I don’t remember when he
got there,” she added, “but I
remember that he was there
monitoring Mason’s pulse when
I started to check it again. And
he was ready to do CPR if that
was needed.”
Maretta
Howell
Stanley
Stone
“I was ready to do whatever I
had to do,” Stone added. “There
were lOor 12 other people there
ready to help too.”
Other employees’ willingness
to help was demonstrated when
Howell asked for a sweater to
keep Royal warm.
“I had more sweaters than I
knew what to do with,” she said,
“but everybody was there to
help.”
When paramedics arrived
within only a few minutes, al
though it seemed an eternity to
Howell and Stone, Royal’s
breathing stopped and his heart
quit. However, the paramedics
administered the defibrilating
process to restart the heart and
the breathing also resumed be
fore he was taken to High Point
Regional Hospital.
“I was calm till they (para
medics) got there,” Howell said.
“Then I fell apart. I could be
myself then. That’s to get nerv
ous.”
Stone also said he would not
have known what to do if that
situation would have occurred
before he took the CPR course
offered by the American Red
Cross in High Point.
“I would recommend that eve
rybody have that course,” he sakL
“You may never use it but you
need it just in case something
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A-MISK
To Merge
With Sara
Lee Hosiery
Adams-Millis/Silver
Knit will become a division
of Sara Lee Hosiery effec
tive July 1.
“This is part of a reor
ganization of management
responsibilities within Win
ston-Salem and is a posi
tive step for us,” said
Adams-Millis/Silver Knit
President George Burfeind.
“L’eggs and Hanes Ho
siery are the market lead
ers in the pantyhose mar
ket and will be of tremen
dous assistance to Adams-
Milli^ilver Knit as we grow
to the number one branded
position with Hanes socks
in the mas.s market and grow
our upscale brands within
Silver Knit”
Burfeind will report to
John Piazza, Chief Execu
tive Officer of Sara Lee
Hosiery, which will be the
only change in the Adams-
Millis/Silver Knit operation.
“We will remain an in
dependent division in all
aspects,” Burfeind said.