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A Look Inside A Quality Circle Meeting
Sit in on a Quality Circle meeting and
you can feel energy. Your PROFILE editor
recently observed the RESP Investigative
Club in action. (RESP stands for Reclaim
Electrostatic Perforation.) Nine circle
members showed up at 5:00 on a
Wednesday evening anxious to produce
results from their scheduled one hour
meeting.
The Circle first attacked some pro ¬
cedural problems. A Circle member was
assigned to find a safe place to store the
Circle’s work records. Another assign
ment was to clearly post in the depart
ment the dates and times for future
meetings.
Attention then shifted to the Circle’s
current project. In the past meetings the
Circle had decided that improved storage
facilities for packing materials would
Linda Marshall
Shelia Miller
David Ramey
improve quality, productivity, housekeep
ing and safety.
The Circle’s next step - prepare a
presentation to Ecusta managers to get
the necessary approvals for purchases
and for reorganizing department facilities.
Each Circle member plays a key role
preparing and delivering the presentation
to management. Each volunteers to study
a specific such as workmanship, safety,
housekeeping, efficiency, work environ
ment, work flow, project costs and cost
benefits. Each circle member presents
information to the whole circle for review.
They discuss the most effective ways to
deliver the information and get approval.
The Circle decided it is best to keep
the presentation under a hour. Each pro
blem is to be clearly defined and matched
with a solution. They discussed ways to
dramatically make their points and the
importance of being specific and
straightforward and not get into finger
pointing.
As the meeting drew to a close, there
was a feeling among the Circle members
that they had accomplished a lot toward
preparing their management
presentation.
They want to be involved in keeping
Ecusta ahead of the competition. They
are confident they know their job better
than anyone and they know Ecusta
management wants to harness their
enthusiasm and commitment to quality. O
John Ammons
Sue Bradley
Charles Burnette
Ann Ramey
SALUTE TO VOLUNTEERS
Olin Employee
Super Tanker
You can’t fight fires without water, yet
many rural communities around the Olin
Works Plant in Covington, Indiana, have
no hydrant system. The answer is to haul
a portable holding tank to the fire and
then keep it filled with water.
“It’s not a big problem if you have got
enough tank trucks to steadily refill the
holding tank,” explained Daryl Watten-
barger, a pipefitter and welder at Olin
Works.
Daryl is also an authority on fire
fighting having been on the Hillsboro
Builds
Volunteer Fire Department 14 years,
captain 10 years and chief 2 years. He is
a certified instructor and is currently
training officer.
Daryl took major responsibility for
building a super water tanker that could
carry 2,000 gallons of water to a fire and
dump the load into the holding tank in
two minutes.
The department purchased a used
truck chassis from a propane gas
company and a tank from a gasoline
company. Out of pocket costs, including
repairs and special fittings, ran about
$5,000. Wattenbarger then put in over 200
hours fabricating and welding brackets,
valves and ladders. He estimates the
finished product is worth $18,000 and
couldn’t be replaced new for less than
$37,000. O
Olin Employee
Radio Station
For a hundred miles around
Covington, Indiana, people can tune in
WFOF at 90.3 on their FM dial and listen
to easy listening religious music, bible
education and discussions on how to
solve family problems. This is possible, in
part, because of seven and a half years of
hard work by Olin Works maintenance
supervisor, Mike Cunningham.
Mike’s church felt there was an audi
ence for a radio station with a religious
format. It took years of struggle with the
FCC and local radio and TV stations
before their wish came true this year.
The station operates on an experimen-
Mike Cunningham monitors studio
controls at the 20,000 watt radio station
he helped establish.
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tal license at 12,000 watts. They hope
soon to have a license as a non-profit
educational station and to increase their
power to 20,000 watts.
Mike currently donates up to 18 hours
per month of his time to operate the
station from the modern, computerized
studio in his church. The station does not
currently present live broadcasts, but
plays programs received by satellite or
broadcast from tapes in the WFOF studio.
The station is on the air everyday from
6:00 a.m. to midnight.
“We are getting good response from
our listeners,” explained Mike. “Local
businesses are also giving us grants to
cover expenses. We are looking forward
to starting our own live broadcasts,
which we hope will be of service to
our community.” O
Daryl Wattenbarger with the 2,000
gallon super water tanker he built for
rural firefighting.