Manufacturing
Brands Risk Reputation In Varying Bangladesh Responses
May 6, 2013 1:46 pm | by KAY JOHNSON,Associated Press | News | CommentsExperts say that with several deadly disasters and fires in Bangladesh's $20 billion garment industry in the past six months, possibly the only way retailers and clothing brands can protect their reputations is to visibly and genuinely work to overhaul safety in Bangladesh's garment factories. A factory fire killed 112 workers in November and a January blaze killed seven.
Monstrous Explosion Rocks Texas Fertilizer Plant
April 18, 2013 12:42 pm | by JOHN L. MONE & MICHAEL BRICK,Associated Press | News | CommentsRescue workers searched the smoldering ruins of a fertilizer plant Thursday for survivors of a monstrous explosion that leveled homes and businesses in every direction across the Texas prairie. As many as 15 people were feared dead and more than 160 others injured.
Silicon Valley Man Convicted In Workplace Shooting
March 11, 2013 11:08 am | News | CommentsA Silicon Valley engineer was found guilty of first-degree murder for fatally shooting three executives at a semiconductor startup the same day he was fired. The Nov. 14, 2008, shooting at SiPort Inc. is one of the worst workplace shootings to have taken place in the high tech region south of San Francisco.
Four Dead In Swiss Workplace Shooting
March 4, 2013 9:10 am | by GEIR MOULSON and MICHAEL BAEHNI, Associated Press | News | CommentsA longtime employee opened fire at a wood-processing company in central Switzerland on Wednesday, leaving three people dead, including the assailant, in the country's second multiple-fatality shooting in two months. The incident occurred as the Swiss parliament prepares to consider tightening some aspects of the country's famously lax gun legislation.
Resilient Town Moves Ahead Year After Tornado
March 4, 2013 7:00 am | by BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press | News | CommentsShaan Singh is back in business running a newly rebuilt convenience store and sandwich shop. A once-wrecked elementary and high school complex is back in session. Burgers and fried chicken are being served again at a popular restaurant that had a school bus tossed into its wall. A year after a deadly twister, signs of renewal are everywhere in Henryville.
Goodyear's Five Steps To Vendor Resilience
August 10, 2011 6:55 am | by Luke Simpson, Editor | Articles | CommentsFour months after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear emergency struck Japan, the flow of components and products out of the country is nearing pre-disaster levels. But at the peak of the disaster, plant closures and product shortages were experienced around the globe by many companies that had operations or critical vendors in Japan.
Goodyear's Business Continuity Excellence Process:
April 11, 2010 8:00 pm | by Michael Janko | Articles | CommentsHurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, flooding, political incidents, utility interruptions, pandemics, supply chain disruptions... As if it is not difficult enough to roll out an effective business continuity process globally that reaches nearly 70...
Achoo! Here Comes The Flu! Goodyear's H1N1 Global Pandemic Tabletop
August 31, 2009 8:00 pm | by CI Staff | Articles | CommentsFour days, 941 facilities around the world, more than 31,000 participants - Goodyear just wrapped up the biggest pandemic tabletop ever. Here's what they learned.
At Applied Materials: Efficient Response = Effective Recovery
June 30, 2009 8:00 pm | Articles | CommentsHow does this philosophy shape Applied Materials' business continuity program? Along with a strong continuity and resiliency effort, the company has a unique and powerful emergency response team (ERT). Both help reduce recovery times and, ultimately, downtime.
Beyond Business Continuity
April 26, 2009 8:00 pm | by Ted Brown | Articles | CommentsThis session will describe an actual manufacturing company’s journey from a strictly disaster recovery IT plan to a true business continuity plan for 50 departments in the headquarters location. The discussion will include motivation for the pro...
Building Flexibility and Continuity into Manufacturing, Assembly, and Logistics
April 26, 2009 8:00 pm | by Damian Walch National Practice Executive | Articles | CommentsBuilding business continuity plans for plants and manufacturing facilities has always been a struggle. Plant managers will tell you they deal with outages, disruptions and labor disputes all the time and they don't need a formal plan. Unfortunat...
Disaster Simulation Exercises: One Company's Approach
April 26, 2009 8:00 pm | by Chris Wright | Articles | CommentsThis session will explore Amgen's approach to conducting the six to seven full-scale disaster simulation exercises that they complete each year. Elements including the initial make up of the exercise design team, the scenario development, commun...
Continuity Trends: Operating Entity Plans: The 3rd Frontier
November 7, 2008 7:00 pm | by John A. Jackson | Articles | CommentsWhat is this "third frontier"? What are operating entities? And why should you care? Well it dates back to a long time ago and involves a very dear friend of mine who works for a manufacturing and distribution company located in Oregon. One day at Comdisco, she said something like, "You know, John, we have a great recovery solution in place for our data center and out corporate offices, but what would we do if one of our distribution facilities suffered an outage? Essentially, where could we send finished goods to, where would we fill customer orders from, and how would we get our business back on track?"
BCP Goes to Beijing
August 31, 2008 8:00 pm | by The Staff | Articles | CommentsRunning, swimming, jumping — that’s what the Olympians were doing inBeijing. But the Olympic Games activated the business continuity community in an entirely different way, as continuity professionals found themselves planning and, at times, scrambling to deal with manufacturing and transportation shut downs.
BCP Excellence: How Did Goodyear Get There?
February 29, 2008 7:00 pm | by Buffy Rojas Editor-in-Chief | Articles | Comments"What makes us unique is that our business continuity focus is meeting the needs of our customers," says Janko. "For many other organizations it's meeting a time or point objective-an RTO or an RPO. But you really need to put this into business terms. We're at a point at Goodyear where the leadership sees the business value of the process. We're proud of being proactive with planning and forward thinking. We're trying to help set trends for the rest of the industry."
Team Response: NIKE's Process-Driven Crisis Communication Plan
April 22, 2007 8:00 pm | by Katie Willis | Articles | CommentsLearn how a process-driven crisis communication plan can be an integral part of a highly responsive crisis management infrastructure. This session will review NIKE's process-driven approach for crisis management planning, specifically focusing ...
ORECK. How A Small Company Is Meeting BIG Continuity Challenges
June 30, 2006 8:00 pm | by Buffy Rojas Editor-in-Chief | Articles | CommentsORECK may be a household word, but it's still a fairly small, family-owned, family-run company. When ORECK was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina, it's family focus, with emphasis on trust and responsibility, brought the company from the brink of disaster back to continued business success.
Winning Ways to Get and Keep Executives On Board (Case Study)
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by Janet L. Mebust | Articles | CommentsAre you a BC practitioner who really knows your stuff but still can’t seem to garner and maintain the support of executive management? Do you want to assure executive commitment for the duration of program development, through maintenance and be...
Raising the Bar for Resiliency and Security at Bridgestone/Firestone (Case Study)
May 8, 2006 8:00 pm | by David Sarabacha | Articles | CommentsThe concept of business continuity management is foreign to many manufacturing organizations and those in other industries where regulatory drivers for business continuity management do not exist. However, given the ever increasing focus on the ...
How to Embed BCP:
May 7, 2006 8:00 pm | by Katie Willis | Articles | CommentsUnderstanding how to lead your organization from “current state” to an enterprise business continuity program seems almost an impossible task, particularly for matrix, highly segmented, or global organizations. In this session, learn how to: • G...
Achieving BCP Harmony: The Yamaha Story (Case Study)
May 7, 2006 8:00 pm | by Brian Jemelian | Articles | CommentsAt Yamaha Corporation of America, BCP is not just another project within that needs to be managed. BCP is a driving force in strategic process improvements made within the organization. This session details the development of Yamaha’s comprehens...
Rolling Out Business Continuity Planning to Manufacturing Environments
August 31, 2005 8:00 pm | by Michael Keating | Articles | CommentsThere is no doubt the business continuity and disaster recovery field cut its teeth in the technology world, principally in white collar environments. Banks and other financial institutions have led the way, and more recently insurance companies, call centers, and outsourcers have participated in business continuity planning in far greater numbers than the manufacturing sector.
Yamaha: Achieving BCP Harmony
February 28, 2005 7:00 pm | by Buffy Rojas Editor-in-Chief | Articles | CommentsEstablished in 1960, Yamaha Corporation of America (YCA), then Yamaha International Corporation, offers a full line of musical instruments, audio/visual, and computer- related products to the U.S. market. Also, YCA subsidiary Yamaha Exporting, Inc. is engaged in exporting many products and materials to overseas markets.
