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Employee of the Month by Keydi Bustillos

Halleck Jensen - We're thrilled to announce Halleck as our Employee of the Month for September! Halleck's dedication and exceptional contributions to our team have not gone unnoticed.

In his role as the Lead for Line 4, Halleck plays a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth operation of our production process. His collaborative spirit shines through as he works closely with the props team to enhance test fixture functionalities, making our work more efficient and precise.

What truly sets Halleck apart is his unwavering willingness to support his colleagues. He is always there to lend a helping hand, offering valuable insights, and consistently advocating for the betterment of our work environment. Halleck doesn't just identify issues; he takes action to address them, making our workplace a better and more productive space for everyone.

Thank you, Halleck, for your exceptional work, dedication, and teamwork. You are a shining example of what it means to be a valued member of our team, and we're proud to have you on board. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition!

birthdays

13 Sep Michelle Yazzie

16 Sep Sandy Ramirez

23 Sep Daniel Marriott

Hire date anniversaries

27 Years (26 Sep) Ron Cossey

21 Years (12 Sep) Justin Whiting

6 Years (5 Sep) Nephi Grant

Recent Hires by Gerod Osness

We'd like to recognize and welcome some recent hires to the Spectra Symbol Hive! Here's some information about these busy bees:

Agueda Urena - August 1, 2023
- Current Assignment: Line 1
- Fun Facts:
  - Agueda was born in the best month, May!
  - One of her Hobbies is playing and watching basketball, she enjoys watching her favorite team the Utah Jazz (especially when they beat the Lakers),
  - If the Jazz ever played in Venice (Italy, not the beach) she would love to go with them and then make the time to take in the sights like a normal tourist would,
  - Another hobby she has is helping people in need,
- Super Power: The superpower she wishes for shows that she would love to have the power to heal.
- Favorite Snack/Food: if you need an ice breaker to talk to her, her favorite snack is coffee, bring her a cup and start up a conversation!
Zayna Thomas - Hired August 14, 2023
- Current Assignment: Customer Coordinator, COPS Team
- Fun Facts:
  - She played Roller derby for 2 years in high school,
  - She was taught to sew by her Father around the age of 6, one of her projects was making costumes for a theater production,
  - I heard she is even making pillows for the couch in the COPS office. Doing these things helps her stay connected to and honor her family legacy. if you feel like following along she posts her crafting adventures on her Insta.
  - One of her bucket list items is to run a marathon.
- Super Power: If she could have a superpower it would be to make food EXACTLY as she wants it
- Favorite Snack/Food: She loves fruit snacks and says she could survive on burritos as she hides during the zombie apocalypse.
Kassi Wilkin - Hired August 21, 2023
- Current Assignment: Shipping Coordinator, Inventory Team
- Fun Facts:
  - Looking for some new earrings you are in luck she knows someone who makes and sells them on ETSY.......it's her.
  - Her favorite television show is Psych she would love to Join Shawn and Gus and the chaos they create
  - One of Kassi's hobbies is painting she loves to do this while eating flaming hot Cheetos and jamming to OneRepublic,
  - She loves Halloween and all things spooky.
- Super Power: The superpower she most desires would be to breathe underwater,
- Favorite Snack/Food: if she could only eat 1 thing for the rest of her life it would be potatoes because they are so versatile and you can do so many things with them they even go with snails and chicken hearts (which are both taste awful in her opinion).

These are great conversation starters and we encourage everyone to take the opportunity to get to know them and make them feel welcome!

Upcoming Events

12 Sep National Hug and High-Five Day

15 Sep National Double Cheese Burger Day

22 Sep Business Women's Day

29 Sep National Ghost Hunting Day

Important Company Events:

18-22 Sep Lunch and Learns (check with your supervisor for exact date and time)

Product insights by Ed Lore

RoboSavvy- p/n 9204

RoboSavvy Ltd. develops robotic solutions and provides sales of robotic parts for research and DIY projects. They sell robots that they designed themselves, develop robots for other companies, and provide many open-source resources for hobbyists and students to step into robotics. RoboSavvy has a special interest in humanoid robots and autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs).

Last year we made a part for RoboSavvy’s TUGBOT, an autonomous heavy courier. The TUGBOT is capable of lifting up to 250 kg (~550 lbs) of product and navigating it in indoor or outdoor environments. It’s self-driving, self-charging, and can coordinate with other robots to solve problems. This makes it very useful in a warehouse or factory environment, where they can carry heavy loads across long distances and through difficult areas. Our sensors help this robot stay safe and keep human workers out of harm’s way.

Here’s a video demonstrating the TUGBOT: https://youtu.be/e4rZODmsSxw?si=LzcDEC9lqogs9y2l

The Great GAme of Business (G.G.O.B)

Training Bite: Higher Law #4 - "You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do"

You drop everything else. You focus night and day on that one thing. When your back is up against the wall you gotta figure out how to move the wall back. You do whatever it takes because people’s livelihoods are on the line. Take the hill! You gotta take the hill.

"Bottleneck" by Justin Whiting

Ah-h-h-h, there's nothing more refreshing on a hot summer day than to take an ice-cold bottle of Coke out of the cooler, with the small ice chunks and water dripping off of it, so cold that you can see the cold mist rolling from the bottle and popping off the bottle cap and chugging the ice-cold liquid down your throat and into your stomach!

I love that iconic Coke bottle shape, with its curvy lines and slender neck. The only problem is, that slender neck can truly put a damper on a good chug. Wouldn't it be nice to get the same refreshing drink while getting more of it through the neck faster and without accidentally suctioning your tongue to the opening of the bottle!

Similar to the volume of refreshing ice-cold liquid waiting inside to make it through that slender neck of the Coke bottle, a manufacturing process can become a bottleneck when it is fed a volume of work larger than its maximum capacity.

The best example I can think of for a bottleneck at Spectra Symbol is the Spartanics Machine. At one point, every printed sheet that was produced at Spectra Symbol had to go through the Spartanics Machine where at least 12 holes had to be punched by that machine. Now multiply that by the number of sheets and the number of print jobs on the schedule and there were times that machine could have run 24/7 and still not stayed caught up. To make the issue worse, we can't even expand the capacity by purchasing another machine as that design has been obsoleted and we'd have to re-tool to utilize different equipment.

By understanding our limitations with the Spartanics Machine, Spectra Symbol has been able to address the issue and today we have begun the process of phasing out that piece of equipment and replacing it with a different process of creating those same registration features in a manner that both meets today's needs and can be expanded as needed in the future.

In like manner, Spectra Symbol needs all of our employees looking at our processes and finding where materials, people, time, or other resources are backing up at a bottleneck and finding solutions that can improve or exploit it.

The following is a link to a quick resource I found for identifying bottlenecks and how to best utilize them: HERE

If you have any questions or ideas about identifying, eliminating, or exploiting a current bottleneck in our system, please get with your supervisor or Ron Cossey and let's see what we can do to Kaizen it and move forward! Kaizen FOREVER!

Employee Referral Bonuses

No payouts this month (September 2023)

As a reminder here is how the referral program works.

Have your referral fill out our Employment Application
Get paid out $100 after their first week of employment
Get paid out $400 after 6 months of employment
Get paid out $500 after their 1 year of employment

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