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CI/ECO News: 2019 Quarter 4

              Happy New Year from your friends at Davidson Plyforms! We hope you had a great holiday

       season and are just as eager as us to tackle the new year 2020. In this issue of the Davidson Digest

       you will   read about new and exciting projects that have rounded out our 2019 and carried into 2020.

       We  also are  continuing to tackle projects  on the  ECO front  that make  sense  for  sustainability in

       reducing our environmental footprint. We hope you enjoy this small glimpse into Davidson Plyforms!


                                                CI: BACCI Installation
            Davidson Plyforms purchased a new BACCI CNC machine via capital investment in 2017
     and have completed this project as 2019 came to an end. This BACCI CNC machine replaced three
     older machines and compliments an already existing BACCI machine within the department
     (picture below: new BACCI on right, existing on left). With these three machines being replaced
     due to outdated/obsolete technology, it makes sense to gain leverage from an already existing

      BACCI  to  strengthen  the  entire  departments
      efficiency,      scrap      reduction,       capacity,
      engineering/maintenance  support,  etc.  with
      this synchronicity of machines.
             Over  a  two-year  period,  an  immense
      amount of work went into getting to where we
      are  today  from  install  to  production.  These
      elements of creating an entire work cell with
      building,      programming,         testing,    safety
      inspections, and many more have brought us to
      our  current  state  in  increasing  the  ability  to
      satisfy our customers’ needs.



                                             ECO: Glue Waste Reduction
               The scope of this project is to minimize glue waste
       at the source within the 12 glue spreaders in production.
              The first objective was to ensure our current process
       for  tracking  glue  waste  was  sufficient  in  providing  the

       team with the necessary information. The current tracking
       was  changed  from  one  total  waste  amount,  spread  into
       departmentalized buckets to see exactly where the source
       of waste is coming from (graph right).

              Once our data tracking was aligned, the team established standard procedures for best
       cleaning practices, improved work instructions, determined optimal chiller levels, and are
       beginning to train each department accordingly. Since inception, this project  has reduced
       daily glue waste by 4.3lbs. (860 lbs. annually – 4 day weeks).
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