On behalf of the Management team, another big ‘Thank You’ goes out to everyone for continuing to develop and implement their ideas that will help make Cemex a Safer place to work, with better Quality and greater Efficiency/Effectiveness.
The following summary gives a brief overview of the two ideas from the November 2023 competition:
Midlands Aggregates Area
When accessing the sizing screens for inspections and maintenance, individuals experience restrictive movement due to the personal harnesses being attached to a fixed point and the lanyard length.
To help minimise this, the team fabricated and installed a simple fall arrest catenary cable which is above head height of the individuals accessing the screens allow attachment of the harness lanyard before accessing the screens, also whilst on the screens it allows full length access to the whole screen without unclipping/reclipping the carabiner of the lanyard. This can easily be replicated across multiple sites.
South Coast Aggregates Area
To overcome ongoing issues with the belt drive system and inefficient older motors, the team have started to install Direct Drive motors.
This will increase efficiency, lower energy use and reduce downtime which will lead to increased production and OCF results.
Our congratulations go out to Phil McComb and our Midlands Aggregates team who took the Top Award this month!
On the UK News download page: here you can find details of the winning idea. And if you want further information on any of the Ideas, please visit the Ideation platform via the links here:
- Midlands Aggregates Area – https://cemex.idhall.com/idea/view.php?ide_id=395&vw_ccache=6576f4c5-1
- South Coast Aggregates Area – https://cemex.idhall.com/idea/view.php?ide_id=393&vw_ccache=6576f465-1
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