Instrument Panel Team in China and Michigan Wins Visteon's Highest Form of Employee Recognition
March 26 2004 - 1:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Instrument Panel Team in China and Michigan Wins Visteon's Highest
Form of Employee Recognition DEARBORN, Mich., March 26 /PRNewswire/
-- Cooperation across two continents helped Visteon Corporation
meet increased demand for instrument panels for one of China's most
popular vehicles. It also helped the team involved win Visteon's
highest form of employee recognition -- a Leading the Way Summit
Award. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040326/DEF009
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20001201/DEF008LOGO ) YanFeng
Visteon, a joint venture between Visteon and Shanghai Automotive
Industry Corp. in Shanghai, China, began supplying instrument
panels for the Shanghai Buick Regal in early 2003. Due to an
upswing in the market and the popularity of the redesigned vehicle,
the plant's requirements for instrument panels doubled within the
first two months. "YanFeng Visteon was meeting original production
plans, but the vehicle was outselling projections," said Steve
Meszaros, managing director, YanFeng Visteon, who nominated the
six-member team. "The team realized it had to reduce cycle time and
obtain additional tooling as quickly as possible." To meet the
additional requirements, the team found ways to reduce the cycle
time of the instrument panel foam process used in Shanghai.
Leveraging Visteon's global capability and technical support from
the Saline (Michigan) Plant, the Shanghai plant put into service a
second foam-injection tool that combines a hard plastic substrate,
vinyl skin and polyurethane foam to produce a finished instrument
panel. Meanwhile, the Shanghai plant added a third shift and moved
to a seven-day-a-week production schedule. As a result of these
efforts, YanFeng Visteon is now producinginstrument panels at a
rate nearly three times the original expectation. For its efforts,
the instrument panel capacity team is being recognized with a
prestigious Leading the Way Summit Award -- one of only six awarded
by Visteon, which has 72,000 employees on six continents. The team
was selected by Visteon Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Pete
Pestillo and President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Johnston
from among 46 individuals and teams, who received quarterly Leading
the Way awards in2003. Members of the winning instrument panel team
include Chen Yong, Su Xiaoyu, Wang Bingshen and Ye Yingtang from
YanFeng Visteon, and Blane Hansknecht and Bob Hendricks from the
Saline Plant. "Visteon is committed to establishing a
collaborative, performance-driven culture in which we recognize and
celebrate the success of individuals and teams achieving
breakthrough performance," Pestillo said. "I am very proud of
Visteon's first Summit Award winners, and of all 289 individuals
and teams who were nominated by their leaders and peers for Leading
the Way Awards throughout the year. It was no easy task selecting
just six winners, as each of the nominees demonstrated exemplary
performance." Johnston said achievements of the instrument panel
capacity team and the other Summit Award winners represent the
"best of the best" of Visteon's accomplishments in 2003. "This team
and all of the Summit Award winners embody the energy, perseverance
and ability to execute that will be hallmarks of Visteon's future
success," he noted. Launched in 2003, the Leading the Way
recognition program honors Visteon employees who demonstrate
exemplary performance, accomplishments or behavior that is
significantly above and beyond expectations, or results that
produce noticeable improvement in areas such as quality, value to
the customer, speed and people. The Summit Award is granted
annually and is the most prestigious award associated with the
Leading the Way program. Visteon Corporation is a leading
full-service supplier that delivers consumer-driven technology
solutions to automotive manufacturers worldwide and through
multiple channels within the global automotive aftermarket. Visteon
has approximately 72,000 employees and a global delivery system of
more than 200 technical, manufacturing, sales and service
facilities located in 25 countries.
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