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Come along with IIE Twin Cities to get
an insider’s look at the visual
management and 5S systems of Intek
Plastics. On this tour Intek will
showcase their state of the art;
employee led visual management
system along with their quality 5S
program which combines
standardization and organization.
Intek Plastics, Inc. is a private company
located in Hastings, MN. They create
custom plastic extrusions, using the
latest technology and highest quality
materials. With over 50 years of
experience, they serve construction,
agriculture, recreation, appliance,
telecommunications, transportation,
retail point-of-purchase (POP) displays,
windows and doors, commercial
refrigeration, and LED lighting
industries.
In 2005 Intek went through a Lean
manufacturing transformation which
generated plant wide efficiencies and
productivity improvements. On the
tour Intek will also showcase their 16
extruders which produce the highest
quality plastic profile extrusions.
We will gather for a social hour
following the tour at Las Margaritas
Mexican Restaurant located at 2100
Vermillion Street in Hastings, MN. If
you are unable to attend the tour
please still feel free to join us after!
PROVIDING A NETWORK WITHIN MINNESOTA AND SURROUNDING AREAS TO COLLABORATE ABOUT INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING.
Visual Management & 5S Tour
Chapter 38 Newsletter
Date Thursday, June 7th, 2012 Time 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, followed by social networking at Las Margaritas Place Intek Plastics Inc., 1000 Spiral Boulevard Hastings, MN 55033 Cost Free! RSVP An Evite® invitation has been sent. If you did not receive the invite,
please send your RSVP to [email protected]
Learn about a successful value-added visual management system!
2011 Platinum
Award Winning Newsletter!
LOCAL JOB
OPPORTUNITIES ........... 4
CHAPTER ACTIVITY
REPORT UPDATE .......... 4
UPCOMING EVENTS . 7
JUNE 2012
IIE Twin Cities
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Did you know? Intek manufactures a flexible extruded plastic cover that sits on top of rink dasher boards in
hockey arenas called SoftCap for the company Athletica. Its design uses hollow channels to absorb
impact 96% better than the material previously used,
according to NHL testing. The NHL expects SoftCap will reduce head, chin, elbow and other injuries and
has approved the product for all team arenas.
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Dan and Randy are also members IIE Twin Cities
and we were proud to have them represent us!
Dan accepted the Gold Award on the behalf of IIE
Twin Cities board members.
The 2012 event pipeline is very solid for the
remainder of the year and we have a great summer
planned. The June event is the Intek Plastics Visual
Management & 5S Systems Tour. Then we will
have our 5th
Annual IIE Twin Cities Bean Bag Bash
Tournament in July, followed by a tour of Synovis
Life Technologies and a Target Corporation Tour
with Brits Lawn Bowling in August. Evites® will be
sent out soon for the upcoming events.
I would like to thank board members John Kline
and Jeromy Knapp for creating a new IIE Twin
Cities website. The new website is completely user
friendly and very informational. The website
address is www.iietwincities.org. Check it out for
all IIE Twin Cities information and upcoming
events.
Have a cool and safe summer. I am looking
forward to seeing everyone at the future IIE
events.
President’s Message
John Spriggs, IIE Twin Cities President.
It is hard to believe that year is already half over,
but we have had a variety of IIE events ranging
from workshops to plant tours. We have had
fantastic events this year with great topics and
attendance.
The previous last two events were the 3M
Innovation Center Tour in April and the Didier A3
Workshop in May. The 3M tour was a riveting
event that featured all 45 technology platforms at
3M as well as a hand on experience with the
innovative technologies at 3M. The turnout was
fantastic with 27 people attendees, where over
half were non-members. The Didier A3
Workshop was a wonderful learning experience
which featured A3 tools and principles.
Participants learned how they could utilize A3
problem solving tools at their current jobs,
bringing exposure to what is value-added vs. non-
value added.
The 2012 IIE Annual Conference in Orlando was
held from May 19-23. The current IIE North
Central Regional Vice President (RVP), Dan Thury,
and the previous North Central RVP, Randy
Wahlstrom, attended the conference.
Past President John Kline, Boston Scientific [email protected]
President John Spriggs, 3M [email protected]
President – Elect Eric Situmbeko, Andersen Corp [email protected]
Treasurer Corin Hammitt, HealthEast Care System [email protected]
Events Director Tracey Bauer, FM Approvals [email protected]
Events Director Bree Bowersox, Boston Scientific [email protected]
Membership Director Peter Nelson, Boston Scientific [email protected]
Website Director Jeromy Knapp, Target [email protected]
Newsletter Director Jenna Weiland, Boston Scientific [email protected]
Social Media Director Christy Strong, Boston Scientific [email protected]
Social Media Director Jeremiah Johnson, Boston Scientific [email protected]
Board Member at Large Sean Dveris, Target [email protected]
Board Member at Large Jeff Quarberg, Donaldson Co. [email protected]
2012 IIE Twin Cities Officers and Board Members
2011 GOLD AWARD
WINNING CHAPTER
Hats off to IIE Twin Cities for winning the
Gold award in the 2011 Professional
Chapter Recognition Competition!
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IIE Twin Cities would like to welcome new
members to IIE, rejoined members and members
who transferred into our local chapter:
New Members: Allison Bryant, UPS Dylan Dibb Sean Dveris, Target Corp. Corin Hammitt, HealthEast Care System Chris Heinze, Carley Foundry Jeromy Knapp, Target Corp. Brian Lindenmeyer, The Open Sky Group Kevin Nordstrom, International Paper Scott Plocher, Datacard Group Keith Speildenner, Lifetouch Corey VanDerBosch Currently we have 115 members!
Member News
Welcome New Members!
IIE Twin Cities Website
If you haven't noticed, the IIE Twin Cities website has a new look!
We have decided to change to a new host to take advantage of
some great benefits. The two main benefits of the new host are
the following: the monthly costs have decreased and changes to
the website have gone from difficult to super-duper simple! This
will allow us to quickly update the website to keep you up to
date with the latest events, event pipeline and contact
information for the board members.
If you haven't checked out the website, please take a look and
let us know what you think at www.iietwincities.org. We are also
working on a new header and would love your feedback. We will
be sending out a survey soon to hear what you would like to see
when you open one of your NEW favorite websites!
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Local Job Opportunities
Manufacturing Engineer, Entegris Inc. Chaska, MN
Supply Chain Planning Manager, MOM Brands Lakeville, MN
Process Improvement Program Manager, Regions Hospital St. Paul, MN
Lean Six SIgma Coach, 3M Maplewood, MN
Senior Consultant Lean Six Sigma, CGI Group Minneapolis, MN
For more information on these jobs go to iienet.org, click on ‘Career Center’ and
search jobs by location.
Six Sigma Black Belt - Customer Experience, Select Comfort Plymouth, MN
Utilization / Quality Review Specialist, Lakeview Stillwater, MN
We have scheduled events that are
representative of the major industries
around the Twin Cities. If you missed the
events at 3M or Nilifisk, there are upcoming
events planned at Intek, Synovis, Target,
Donaldson and many more.
We teamed up with Didier Rabino, who is a
lean expert, to offer an A3 Projects
workshop in May. Based on the positive
feedback from the participants and
feedback from the VOM, we plan on
offering another workshop later this year.
We redesigned our website and now we
have more up-to-date information posted.
Browse our new and redesigned site at
www.iietwincities.org.
We hope that these activities will continue to
provide more value to all members! Visit our
new website and leave us a note on how we are
doing to serve you.
Chapter Activity Report
Focus On: Membership Growth/Retention
A goal for IIE Twin Cities has been to be
proactive in increasing participation and
providing more value to our members. At the
beginning on the year we held a Voice of the
Member (VOM) event to get the ball rolling.
Most of the feedback from the members
showed that we need to have a variety of
events to meet different interests and
schedules! To accomplish those objectives,
we came up with the following actions:
We have made a point to host chapter
events in different parts of the metro
area to ease the commute for members
who would otherwise not travel across
the Twin Cities to participate. Be on the
lookout for events near you!
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Some of the strategies and tools they use to
manage its inventory-to-assembly process
flow include: detailed assembly instructions
by model, 5S work station organization,
pick-tickets for larger items, kanbans for
smaller items and a parallel sub-assembly
line to feed the flow. Attendees were given
the opportunity to take photographs, ask
questions and even try out some of the
equipment floor sweeping equipment.
After the tour, several attendees gathered
at nearby Cowboy Jack’s to network. Many
thanks to Nilfisk-Advance for having us and
for everyone that was able to join us!
Tour attendees after the tour, ready to head out to Cowboy Jacks for some good, old fashioned networking!
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Past Event Recap
Nilfisk-Advance Tour, March 2012
In March, IIE Twin Cities held a well-attended
tour of the Nilfisk-Advance industrial and
commercial cleaning equipment assembly
facility in Plymouth, MN. Over the past ten
years the company has transitioned from
500+ production workers in a very vertically
integrated manufacturing business model to
approximately 150 workers performing
primarily assembly.
Levi Moore, Manufacturing Engineer Manager
at Nilfisk-Advance, hosted the 26 tour
attendees. The tour consisted of a short
presentation on the history of the company
and the products and a walk through the
mixed-model assembly lines where just over
1000 units are completed annually.
IIE Chapter President, John Spriggs, tries out the Industrial CS7000 Floor sweeper during
the tour.
Past Event Recap
3M Innovation Center Event, April 2012
For example, films: one product line enhances the
brightness in LCD displays while another blocks the sun
from coming through windows. 3M films are used to
create building-sized graphics and to prevent graffiti. Some
are single-layered with humble applications and others
combine hundreds of layers that are tuned to transmit or
reflect specific wavelengths. Still other films provide very
high barriers to oxygen and moisture-a requirement in
next-generation electronic displays.
Following the tour, several attendees gathered at the 5-8
Club for Juicy Lucy’s and toasted the first round on the
dime of IIE Twin Cities. While discussing the various
technologies, everyone had a different favorite but could
all agree that the one hour visit was not nearly enough to
properly experience the various technologies.
Thanks to all who attended!
The tour of the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul was
another big hit for IIE Twin Cities. We had 27 people
were in attendance! Those in attendance were
taken through the story of 3M and its history of
innovation and collaboration. The collaboration
between technology and product groups and with
external customers has resulted in new products
that would otherwise likely not have ever come
about.
Early product milestones included:
The world's first waterproof sandpaper (early 1920’s)
Masking tape (1925)
3M’s diversion into defense materials which resulted in reflective sheeting for highway markings, magnetic sound recording tape, filament adhesive tape (1940’s)
Post-it® Notes (1980)
Much of 3M’s corporate culture is credited to
William L. McKnight, who served as 3M chairman of
the board from 1949 to 1966. He encouraged 3M
management to "delegate responsibility and
encourage men and women to exercise their
initiative." 3M’s heritage dates back more than 100
years, and McKnight's principles continue to guide
3M.
The group ended in a room filled with hands-on
exhibits resembling that of the Science Museum.
Each exhibit represented a category of 3M
technology and told the story of the product
interrelation and how they each tied back to the
adhesives through product samples and interactive
displays.
Some of 3M’s diverse products.
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July IIE Twin Cities Event
5th Annual IIE Twin Cities Bean Bag Bash Tournament
Please join us for a fun summer night and a competitive bean bag tournament! Family and friends are also invited. Date Thursday, July 12th, 2012 RSVP An Evite® invitation will be sent. For more information please contact [email protected].
Upcoming Events
June 7 IIE Twin Cities Visual
Management & 5S Tour at Intek Plastics
14 2012 Picnic for Twin Cities MFESTS Engineering Societies hosted by SWE
July 12 IIE Twin Cities 5th Annual
Bean Bag Bash Tournament
16 AFE Twin Cities: 24th Annual "Lucky 13" Golf Tournament
18 MFESTS 2nd Annual Program Planners Meeting, topic is Electronic Communication
August 22 IIE Twin Cities Tour of Synovis
Life Technologies
29 IIE Twin Cities Target Corporation Tour & Brits Lawn Bowling
Details on all IIE Twin Cities events can be found at www.iietwincities.org.
Details on all other events can be found at www.mfests.org.
Events are subject to change.
What is IIE?
IIE is the world’s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering
profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. Founded in 1948, IIE is an international, non-profit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training,
research and development of industrial engineering.
With approximately 15,000 members and 280 chapters worldwide, IIE’s primary mission is to meet the ever-
changing needs of industrial engineers, which includes undergraduate and graduate students, engineering
practitioners and consultants in all industries, engineering managers, and engineers in education,
research and government.
What is IIE Twin Cities?
The IIE Twin Cities Chapter 38 provides a network for individuals within Minnesota and surrounding areas to
collaborate about industrial engineering. Our members include professionals with industrial engineering
degrees, both working in IE roles & non-IE roles and professionals working in industrial engineering related
functions.
We provide monthly events which include topics in professional development, Lean, Six Sigma, Quality,
process improvement and tours at distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, hospitals and consulting firms. We also promote the industrial engineering profession by providing scholarships to IE students and becoming
involved with several student IIE chapters.
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Date Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 Time 10:30 am to 12:00 pm Place 2575 University Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55114 Cost Free! RSVP An Evite® invitation will be sent. For more information please contact [email protected].
August IIE Twin Cities Event
Tour of Synovis Life Technologies
The tour of Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. (Baxter) will focus on how biological tissue is transformed into an implantable medical device, how surgical tools are manufactured, and how lean concepts have been implemented in a medical device company to reduce inventory, optimize floor space, optimize flow, utilize visual management, and improve the on-time shipment of product to customers.