Fish Fry Friday’s! – Friday, February 19th, kicked off the 2010 fish fry season benefiting the West Catholic High School boosters. Why is this Micron news? Cuz if you check out our contacts page you’ll see one of our very own is on the host committee responsible for putting it on each Friday during lent, not to mention that over 2 dozen Preston family members have walked the halls of West over the years.

Micron Tours –
• December 9th, 2009, Micron welcomed Laerdal Medical from Gatesville, Texas. Laerdal is the creator of the Resuscitation Anne, used for decades by millions around the world to learn CPR techniques. Some of the topics reviewed included:
o Short lead time small run process;
o Vendor managed inventory program;
o Lean methodology and daily 5 minute huddles;
o Value stream mapping process;
o Management structure and how it works;
o “One Page Strategic Plan”;
• Micron hosted the Marketing User Group on January 29th.
• February 5th, 2010, Micron welcomed the Amway Corporation for a tour of our 5S Visual Organization / Visual Controls system.