Rockwell facility named one of nation's 10 Best Manufacturing Plants by IndustryWeek; award honors best practices, employee involvement.EL PASO El Paso (ĕl pă`sō), city (1990 pop. 515,342), seat of El Paso co., extreme W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Juárez, Mex.; inc. 1873. , Texas--(BUSINESS WEEK)--Oct. 25, 1995--Rockwell Wednesday was honored by IndustryWeek as one of the 10 best manufacturing plants in the nation with the magazine's sixth annual America's Best Plants(c) award. IndustryWeek, a magazine of ideas for managers in industry, presented the award during a ceremony at Rockwell's Defense Electronics facility in El Paso. The award recognized Rockwell's world-class manufacturing capabilities in many areas, including management practices, quality indicators, technology, employee involvement, manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. and customer focus. IndustryWeek has nearly one million readers, and its focus is to provide today's managers with the resources and knowledge necessary to enable them to advance their businesses. The IndustryWeek award is presented annually to 10 manufacturing plants nationwide. Each plant participates in a rigorous selection process that requires detailed validation in management practices and manufacturing processes. This year's winners were selected by a panel of editors from more than 170 nominations and are profiled in the magazine's Oct. 16 issue as examples of what America is doing right in manufacturing. During the recognition ceremony, Rockwell executives congratulated the approximately 250 El Paso employees for the award. "Your work is appreciated by Rockwell and also by our customers, many of whom are represented here today," said John A. McLuckey, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Rockwell's Aerospace & Defense business. "Your continuous drive towards excellence and the team approach to problem solving problem solving Process involved in finding a solution to a problem. Many animals routinely solve problems of locomotion, food finding, and shelter through trial and error. is helping us reach the Rockwell Vision -- to be THE BEST diversified high technology company in the world," said McLuckey. Adding his congratulations to his winning team was Robert D. (Bob) Paster, president of the Autonetics & Missiles Systems Division, which has headquarters in Anaheim, Calif. "Our El Paso team, led by Dwayne Weir as plant manager, has earned this award through their constant search for production process improvements and commitment to continuously provide our customers with quality, delivery and service second to none." As a "manufacturing center of excellence," the 113,000-square-foot El Paso facility supports several Rockwell businesses on more than 20 Department of Defense (DoD) and NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. production programs in-work at any given time. The U.S. government's Defense Contract Management Command (DCMC DCMC Defense Contract Management Command DCMC Deputy Chairman Military Committee DCMC Office of Deputy Chairman, Military Committee (US DoD) ) measures El Paso's quality performance on a daily basis and provides monthly In-Plant Quality Evaluation (IQUE) reports to the DoD and NASA customers. On the IQUE scale of 1 to 5 (level 5 being the highest possible), Rockwell's El Paso facility rates a 5. Rockwell was the first manufacturing facility to achieve this rating in DCMC's western district of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The command has designated the facility as a "model" facility for IQUE implementation and performance, and has invited other defense contractors Noun 1. defense contractor - a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; to benchmark their performance with the El Paso facility. Among the facility's primary production capabilities are fully automated assembly lines, clean-room environments, multiple mass soldering soldering Process that uses metal alloys with low melting points to join metallic surfaces without melting them. Tin-lead solders, once widely used in the electrical and plumbing industries, are now replaced by lead-free alloys. technologies, automated components and wire preparation cells, semi-automated fine pitch assembly, and in-line conformal coating Conformal coating material is applied to electronic circuitry to act as protection against moisture, dust, chemicals, and temperature extremes that if uncoated (non-protected) could result in a complete failure of the electronic system. . Autonetics & Missiles Systems Division is a recognized leader in its addressed markets of precision and low-cost guidance, navigation and control, marine system products, and tactical weapons systems, as well as sensors and acquisition systems for the global defense and commercial markets. Rockwell is a diversified, high-technology company holding leadership market positions in automation, avionics avionics (ā'vēŏn`ĭks), electronic instruments used in air or space flight; also the design and production of such instruments. Early planes had few instruments, but as aviation and aircraft became more complex, so did instrumentation. , aerospace, defense electronics, semiconductor systems, automotive component systems and graphic systems, with annual worldwide sales of nearly $13 billion. CONTACT: Rockwell Christine Rodriguez/Cynthia Taylor 714/762-4195 or 714/762-7775 (Anaheim) 915/755-5000, ext. 6207/6209 (El Paso) |
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