The 2024 Spring outage season is upon us. Last week we had 1920 craft working 111K hours on 100+ sites. Safety and Quality continues to be our focus. And we have had an excellent start to the year – ZERO injuries and events plus 15 STOP Works, 281 Hazard Hunts, and 815 Open Reports, 76% Leadership Tool Use & 88% Preventive Actions identified to SERs
Read MoreLast week was a busy week making GE Vernova & APM better! We had 20+ APM folks join 5 kaizens in 3 locations. Please see this video link with my reflections along with the attached summary of 1FS kaizen week.
Read MoreLast summer, the LDC hosted a 3-week Kaizen event from June 6th to June 24th, 2022. Through this Kaizen, the Gas Power division achieved success in creating D11 valve stands and a table design prototype! They were able to borrow a valve from the GE Houston Learning Center in addition to the D11 from our APM LDC and utilized the LDC’s large shop as a space for everyone to set up and collaborate.
Read MoreOur APM Leadership Development Center (LDC) continues to buzz with activity despite COVID-19 challenges! We are proud that the facility has maintained momentum as a hub for collaboration and learning during the past 12+ months. The development of our facility was a major investment, and the time required to carefully and thoroughly plan events over the past 2+ years, especially with consideration for social distancing and tedious hygiene during the pandemic, has been no small achievement for the coordination team …
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