List of R&D Paid Holidays Posted

I have posted a list of all 2009 Paid Holidays for R&D's qualified employees on the right hand side of the blog. This is the best estimate of dates at this time. Dates are subject to change depending on R&D's work schedule around that particular holiday.

Also, one of R&D's Paid Holidays for eligible employees each year is the Employee's Birthday. This holiday should be taken within 30 days of your actual birthday. Please schedule your time off with your supervisor so they can plan for your time off.

If you have any questions, please see Kandi or Charlie.

Work Schedule - Update

Good News! We received some move-ins and a rush order from a few customers that make our machine schedule very tight for the next two weeks. Although the orders are not substantial enough to go back to a full schedule, we do have the need for more machine hours. We will offer to allow full-time employees to fill their lost hours as machine operators. Please let Tino know if you are interested and we will work out an individual schedule. Training will be available – no experience necessary.

Again, we will review the work schedule each week as we get better visibility from our customers.

Great Initiative Jeff

Thank you to Jeff Geiger for taking the initiative to set up the robot with the "universal" fixture for the GE Securities Coverplate job. This allowed us to run the job fully auto with less than half of an operator to trim, inspect and package the parts. Steps like this directly impact the Labor Efficiency numbers in a positive way and help make us a more successful company. Good job Jeff!

R&D Welcomes Two New Employees

We are pleased to announce that Megan Gemma and Maria Vera are the newest additions to the R&D Plastics team. Megan is an operator on graveyard shift and Maria is on swing shift. Both have worked at R&D through Sedona for a while but now are official R&D team members.

MaxViz Camera

Check out the video of the MaxVis camera. You can see it under the wing of the airplane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1MymcwHEV0

Great Job - Team!

Congratulations to all involved with the sprue bushing improvement on the PMT VXI CHASSIS, TOP tool. Not only did we reduce the cycle-time and make the part removal less painful for the operator, we made a significant reduction in the scrap rate. The scrap rate (year to date) was 20%, and the actual scrap rate for the first 800 pieces after the change was 6%. The cost for the tool modification was paid in the first 600 pieces. Thank you and great job!

Holiday Meal - Update

We are changing the date for the holiday meal to Wednesday, December 17th.