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| Article Name: |
Culture Change Brings Sweet Dreams to Sealy |
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| Posted User: |
Paula Middlesworth |
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| Posted Date: |
May 24, 2005 |
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| Article Date: |
October 24, 2001 |
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| Categories: |
LeadershipRepetitive ManufacturingResults |
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| Article Link: |
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Sealy’s effort to become a lean company. The plant in 2000 won an internal quality award for Sealy’s components division and received the highest safety inspection score in the entire corporation.Improvements that have occurred at the plant in the past two years include:
• A 25 percent increase in the number of outbound
warehouse shipments, with no increase in staff.
• An increase in production of innersprings of more than
53%, with a 30 percent increase in production of foundations
• Reduction of employee turnover by 30 percent.
• Reduction of the plant’s OSHA recordable accident rate
by 35 percent. |
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