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The eBearing News
September 22, 2004
Dodge Bearings Marion Facility
Receives Best Plant Award
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Dodge Bearing (USA, a division of Rockwell Automation Power Systems, USA) had its Marion mounted roller
bearing plant honored as one of the Top 10 Best Plants in North America for 2004 by IndustryWeek magazine.
• the IndustryWeek article profiling Dodge's Marion plant
The award, officially for the Rockwell Automation Roller Bearing Plant, in Marion, North Carolina,
is the first for any bearing manufacturer since the Timken Company (USA) Bucyrus roller bearing plant
won in 1992.
Dodge manufactures a variety of ball and roller bearings, mounted and unmounted, for industrial and food
processing applications, along with hydrodynamic bearings, sleeve bearings, take-up frames and
bearing sensor systems. Dodge has nine bearing and power transmission plants across the United States.
The Marion facility is a 176,000 square foot plant, opened in 1996. It currently employs
just over 100 people, and has been widely recognized for a spotless safety record -- no lost-time accidents
since the day it opened. Marion produces mounted spherical and tapered roller bearings with IDs ranging
from 1-3/16 to 5 inches. They are used in mining, aggregates and cement, pulp
and paper, water and wastewater, and food processing industries.
The IndustryWeek award recognizes manufacturing facilities, "whose exceptional quality, lean practices,
innovative technologies, quick delivery, and improvement strategies helped increase competitiveness
and enhance customer satisfaction."
In its special October 2004 Best Plants issue, the IndustryWeek article also includes a list
of Marion's "best practices."
IndustryWeek senior editor John McClenahen said, "The Marion bearings plant is world-class in all
aspects of manufacturing. It is truly a 174,000 square-foot tool box full of world-class manufacturing
practices and a collection of talented people whose intellectual and emotional commitment to their work
is world-class as well."
Scott Fullbright, Marion plant manager, said, "We benchmark ourselves against the best companies in
the world and we always come out right there with them. We start with really good people; give them the
tools, the processes, and the training they need; and accomplish great things."
Joseph D. Swann, President of Rockwell Automation Power Systems, said, "It's gratifying to
receive this kind of recognition from such a highly respected and leading industry publication. We've known
that our plant performs well and that our employees are extremely competent. But getting an outside
endorsement -- getting IW's seal of approval -- is both empowering and a tremendous pat on the
back for our employees."
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