Winner of Silver U.S. Senate Productivity Award, Naval Aviation Depot, Hosts Best Practice Site Visit.

Business Editors

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000

Naval Aviation Depot (NADEP), San Diego, 1999 Silver Medal, Best in Class, in the Major Manufacturer Category of the U.S. Senate Productivity Award will host a "best practice" benchmarking site visit for members and invitees of the Center for Continuous Improvement Technologies (CCIT) and California Council for Quality and Service (CCQS) on March 23, 2000.

Site visit attendees will have the opportunity to gain useful best practice ideas from this award-winning company.

NADEP in San Diego is the largest aerospace employer in San Diego County, generating over $400 million in annual revenue and employing over 3,600 civilian and 73 military employees. In 1999, NADEP was awarded its third Silver Medal, Best in Class, in the Major Manufacturer category of the U.S. Senate Productivity Award.

Last year, eleven of 20 NADEP manufacturing processes submitted for comparison to private industry and government facilities by the Navy's Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence were declared "Best in Class". This site visit will provide an in-depth look at why this company's F/A-18 center barrel repair capability was selected as one of the aforementioned Best Manufacturing Practices.

Attendees will enjoy a presentation by the F/A-18 Program Manager and will see a center barrel repair in process.

Sponsor CCIT is a unique benchmarking membership cooperative which provides powerful, targeted, and cost-effective best practice site visits and case studies to professionals interested in continuous improvement and quality issues.

CCIT is the only benchmarking organization available which works with the California Quality and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award programs to provide best practice site visits of award-winning organizations.

"If you're investing the time and effort to benchmark, why not Benchmark the Best?", queries Mickey Wiebe, Executive Vice President of CCIT. "Our site visits and resulting case studies are about Best Practices of award-winning companies with proven results from the strategies, systems, and processes they have in place. The invaluable quality-oriented information gained from these site visits and case studies can serve as a powerful catalyst for change and improvement goals within any organization."

CCQS is a co-sponsor of the Best Practice site visit as well. CCQS is a non-profit foundation which administers the California Quality Awards program. CCQS members include private sector companies, government agencies and non-profit organizations.

Details on upcoming events, membership, and case studies may be obtained by contacting Jeri Lynn Rossman at the Center for Continuous Improvement Technologies in Irvine, by e-mail [e-mail] or by phone at 949/476-1144, ext. 315.