Friday, January 07, 2000
INDUSTRY NOTES: MANUFACTURING
Keco sells more pumps to military
BY MIKE BOYER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Air Force has exercised an $8.2 million contract option for portable heat pumps supplied by Keco Industries, a Florence-based defense supplier.
The new option is the ninth, totaling about $53 million, received by Keco for the Field Deployable Environmental Control Units (FDECU) used to heat and cool portable shelters, hospital systems, tents and other sites. Keco, which employs 350 in Florence and Blue Ash, has said the FDECU contract could eventually be worth $150 million over five years.
The FDECU contract extension was the largest part of $11.6 million in defense awards received by Keco's parent, Engineered Support Systems Inc. in St. Louis.
Planet makes food preparation faster
Planet Products Corp., a Blue Ash manufacturer of food automation systems, has introduced two products. One, a biscuit slicer and sandwich assembly line is capable of producing 170 sandwiches a minute with five workers. The sandwich line can slice and collate biscuits and buns up to 4.3 inches in diameter and 3 inches thick, the company said. The second machine, a Servo-Pak Frank Loader, can handle up to 1,500 hot dogs a minute. The unit has a set-up time of five to 10 minutes and requires one or two operators, the company said.
"Nimble' enterprise attributes examined
Can your organization turn on a dime?
That's one of the hallmarks of a “nimble” company to be outlined at a dinner meeting of the Cincinnati Chapter of APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) Tuesdaystarting at 5:30 p.m. at the Sharonville Convention Center.
Ray Attiyah, president of Midwest Manufacturing Solutions, a Cincinnati consulting and training company, will discuss the key attributes of a nimble enterprise at the APICS' Executive Night presentation. For more information, contact Michelle Renn of APICS' program committee: (513) 381-7200.
Lunch meeting looks at business on Net
Preliminary results of a survey of business use of the Internet will be presented Jan. 14 to the Cincinnati regional task force of E-Com Ohio, a statewide analysis of its readiness for electronic commerce.
The study is supported by private business and the state of Ohio. For more information on the luncheon meeting at the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences in Bond Hill, contact Rene Wierzbinski at (513) 948-2007.
Monarch's bar code, solutions units merge
Monarch Marking Systems, the Miamisburg-based bar code systems maker, has announced a consolidation of its bar code technology and solutions business units to speed up decision-making.
As part of the consolidation, Jack Proud, Monarch's new president, said Mike Wills, formerly vice president of bar code technology, will become vice president and general manager of the combined businesses.
Monarch said the consolidation wouldn't include job cuts.
“In fact, we will look to invest in additional marketing talent,” Mr. Proud said. He said the company is recruiting a vice president of marketing and product management to lead a new core marketing department.
Developer pitches site to Nordstrom
Clinton fights cyber-terrorism
Holiday spending eased via Internet
Retailers had merry season
SDRC acquires two related firms for $12M
New-home sales fall, as prices climb 5.3%
New marketing firm speeds growth plan
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