Assembly - January 2009 - (Page 37) 2008 Assembly Plant of the Year Award Ceremony Honors IBM Poughkeepsie D uring a recent ceremony at the Casperkill Country Club in Poughkeepsie, NY, ASSEMBLY magazine presented International Business Machines Corp. with its 2008 Assembly Plant of the Year award. Company officials received an engraved crystal award and a A banner on the plant’s clock tower proclaimed the good news. and supercomputers that are used by large organizations to maintain and process vast amounts of data. The award ceremony in Poughkeepsie was attended by all employees, in addition to local press and senior executives from IBM’s corporate headquarters in Armonk, NY. To view a video of the award presentation, tune into ASSEMBLYtv at www.assemblymag.com. The Assembly Plant of the Year award was created by ASSEMBLY in 2004 to showcase world-class production facilities in the United States. All manufacturers that assemble products in the U.S. are invited to nominate their plants. The goal of the award is to identify a stateof-the-art facility that has applied world-class processes to reduce production cost, increase productivity, shorten time to market and improve product quality. Previous recipients of the Assembly Plant of the Year award were Schneider Electric/Square D (Lexington, KY); Lear Corp. (Montgomery, AL); Xerox Corp. (Webster, NY); and Kenworth Truck Co. (Renton, WA). Nomination forms for the 2009 award are currently available on ASSEMBLY’s Web site. A commemorative banner honoring IBM’s High-End Server Plant. More than 500 people attended the event. “IBM is honored to receive this award,” said Jim King, plant manager. “IBM Poughkeepsie has a strong heritage and tradition, and adapts to new requirements while achieving high performance standards. And, most importantly, our employees take pride in their workmanship, producing systems that represent the flagship of IBM Corp.” The Poughkeepsie facility was selected as the 2008 Assembly Plant of the Year because of the way it has combined lean and green manufacturing initiatives to stay innovative in today’s global economy. The factory assembles some of the world’s most powerful, most fastest and most complex servers, mainframes The award ceremony in Poughkeepsie was attended by several senior executives from IBM’s corporate headquarters. Pictured (left to right): Warren Boldrin, manager of advanced manufacturing sciences; Sal Calta, vice president of business transformation and IT; Joanne Wright, vice president of global manufacturing; Jim King, plant manager; Pat Tivnan, director of manufacturing engineering; Bob Edge, systems engineering manager; and Mark Morizio, director of electronic card and interconnect engineering. www.assemblymag.com January 2009 / ASSE M B LY 37 http://www.assemblymag.com http://www.assemblymag.com
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