8/24/2010
Five Comau Inc. facilities received CET Silver Awards today from the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) for outstanding safety and health records.
This was a record for MIOSHA - never before has MIOSHA presented five such awards to a single company at one time. MIOSHA Director Doug Kalinowski presented the awards to representatives of all five facilities in ceremonies at the Novi Campus and the Southfield Campus.
Here are some photos from today’s event.
One of five awards Comau Inc. was presented with today
A group of employees at Comau Inc.'s Southfield location, following the awards presentation.
MIOSHA Director Doug Kalinowski presents the awards at Comau's Novi location.
MIOSHA Director Doug Kalinowski speaks to Comau Inc. employees
6/29/2010
Southfield, Michigan June 24, 2010 – Comau Inc. today announced that it has received a 2009 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. Comau’s award is in recognition of their work with Boeing’s Renewable Energy Solutions team to develop a manufacturing solution for producing a new type of solar concentrator module, an industry leading technology for converting sunlight directly into electricity.
“It’s an honor for the Comau team to have our contributions formally recognized by a leading company like Boeing for providing them a high level of service in a new and exciting technology field,” said Neil Willetts, Product Line Diversified Vice President for North America.
The Comau team, led by Stuart Marks, first worked with the Boeing engineers at their Phantoms works site to develop the manufacturing solution. This led to the design and build of a pilot automation system for building solar modules for the first 100 kW power plant using this technology. The system is now in production at the Comau Novi plant.
Comau has over 70 years of experience using global resources, engineering know-how, and lean manufacturing processes to provide sustainable automated solutions to customers in industries like automotive, aerospace, packaging, defense, solar and wind energy, rail, recreational and more; from ideas and design to installation, maintenance and service.
For more information on the Boeing Performance Excellence Award, visit
http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/doingbiz/supplier_portal/bpea.html.
Contact: Krista Reaves
248) 369-6965
Krista.reaves@comauinc.com, 1/8/2010
The following article, written by Joseph M. Tizedes, cost data manager and business process reengineering specialist at Comau Inc. and Thomas R. Cutler, CEO of TR Cutler Inc., appeared in Quality Digest.
Work Breakdown Structure: Quality Strategies for Complex ETO Environments
Unique doesn't have to mean complex .
How unique is unique? The answer to this riddle is central in determining which work breakdown structure (WBS) methodology most accurately explains project deliverables and how they should be estimated, controlled, and completed. The quality strategy used to segregate and decompose WBS deliverables can be based on any number of characteristics of the product or project including time phases, functional phases, final deliverables, incremental deliverables, or by subproject (which may have a portion of each characteristic.) Complex engineer-to-order (ETO) products characterize the most unique WBS quality strategies.
WBS deliverable structure
The term “engineer to order” itself is indicative of a product with a unique design, a process in which the design, procurement, development, and production phases will run concurrently or have some overlap. It is for these reasons that complex ETO products require a work breakdown structure based on a hierarchy of deliverables that mirrors the product breakdown structure. This structure naturally establishes a chronological schedule of events for each task as the WBS deliverables and work packages are decomposed.
Product breakdown structure
The product breakdown structure should reflect the upper levels of the bill of materials. The upper portion of the bill of materials should be a hierarchy of deliverables or assemblies. Their content should not be segregated in a “grocery list” style where overall material and labor types are grouped by category. Instead, the bill-of-materials levels should be structured more like a recipe, so the contents and resources needed for a particular deliverable are grouped together. This methodology enables a lean integrated plan for the procurement of material and labor required to complete the deliverable in question.
It is important to have the product breakdown structure, and therefore the WBS, reflect the final deliverable as well as a hierarchy of incremental deliverables that are structured to mirror the order in which material, resources, and labor are prioritized. The work packages should be structured to reflect the level of assembly. A view of the proposed WBS methodology for complex ETO environments is shown in figure 1.
Continue Reading 1/6/2010
Author: Krista Reaves, Marketing Communications
The Office of the Deputy under Secretary of Defense for Advanced Systems & Concepts and the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel honored Comau for outstanding technical accomplishments in achieving the vision of the Department of Defense Manufacturing Technology Program, to “realize a responsive world-class manufacturing capability to affordably meet the war fighters’ needs throughout the defense system life cycle.”
This award was presented to Comau’s Joseph O’Brien who led the team project for Comau, where the F-35 Inlet Duct Robotic Drilling (IDRD) team used a laser tracker to guide a robot to drill precision holes in the F-35 Forward and Aft Inlet Duct, from the inside out.
A highly coveted recognition among the Defense Manufacturing community, the award criteria are based on the uniqueness of the development, its impact (cost savings) on the end use military program and its overall commercial value beyond the specific program application.
Key contributors for this effort include: O’Brien, Tom Lewandowski, Richard Watko, Mark Anderson, Jeff Lay, Rob Zerwick, Greg Bildson, Fred Figlock and Tom Kelley. The awards were presented at the 2009 Defense Manufacturers Conference on December 1 in Orlando, Florida by Adele Radcliff, Director of Manufacturing Technology from the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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