From the Editor Ten Years of Comments
Baltimore is 90 minutes or so from Philadelphia, so when I learned that Jim Leake, from the National Board of Medical Examiners in-plant, was organizing a van pool, I signed up. With Debbie Leone, of St. Joseph's University, at the wheel, we took off on our road trip.
I quickly discovered that I was not going to just kick back and relax on this ride. There was too much networking going on. As we bounced along I-95, I learned about some of the often undiscussed difficulties of running an in-plant. For instance, Jim Whitmore, of Certainteed Corp., told us that he had lost a press operator a year ago. His quest to find the perfect replacement has dragged on a while, and during that time he and his staff have worked a lot of overtime to get the work finished. The new press he added last year has made things even busier, and the need to fill the opening is now greater than ever.