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Employee Quarterly News Issue 4 | December 2014
Year in Review
2014 seemed to fly by, building more and more momentum toward the year’s end. From our acquisition of Learn Maintenance (now rebranded as SkillPoint™) to ATS taking the reigns of Caterpillar’s worldwide IT Service Desk, ATS was on the move in 2014. Add that to closing new business with Stanley Black & Decker, Eaton, Georgia Pacific, USG, Kraft, Terex and Gopher Resource, 2014 found us gaining loyalty from our current customers and earning the respect of some new top manufacturers. I encourage you to take a look at the “Year in Review” in the following pages to see some of the great things our employees did this past year. We received a lot of recognition from the media in 2014, CNBC and The Wall Street Journal to name a few and hosted a Red Cross fundraiser, featuring country music star Sara Evans and raising $450,000. Our employee engagement scores are improving, our focus on safety remains our number one priority and I am very appreciative of all ATS employees for a fantastic year. Enjoy the holidays with your family and friends and above all Live Safety through this special time of year. Sincerely, Jeff
February • ATS-sponsored high school robotics team, “Icarus 2081,” competes with their robot, “the Hugginator” to assist autistic children.
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• ATS-Mexico moves to a new building.
January • ATS vastly improves training by acquiring Learn Maintenance. • Launch of ATS Facebook site to share employee stories.
• IPS starts 2 new RPM sites: Ethicon Manufacturing in Cornelia, GA & Norbord in Johanna, SC. • A new Eaton site begins in Mountain Home, Arkansas.
• ATS-Greenville recognized in community for outstanding support of the United Way.
March • ATS-UK sports pink ATS shirts to raise awareness of breast cancer research. • Stanley Black & Decker begins in Dallas, TX. • Eaton-Greenwood Hydraulics recognized by the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce for excellence in safety.
September • eFactory Parts begins, merging IPS and the Supply Chain divisions.
July
August
• ATS-Mexico celebrates 730 days incident free at all of their facilities.
• ATS starts three new sites, two with Georgia Pacific (Las Vegas & Warm Springs, GA) and one with USG (Kansas City, MO).
• CNBC features ATS with all-day coverage at the EZ-GO plant in Augusta, GA.
• ATS opens CAT Service Desk in Portugal.
• ATS begins supporting Eaton at their facility in Aurora, Colorado. • Steve McCarthy represents ATS as he competes in a charity 30-mile bike ride for breast cancer research.
$181,107
ATS employees raised for the United Way
• ATS employees are part of the 1,516 volunteers who participate in the United Way Day of Caring. • The ATS Young Professionals Group skydives in Chicago, IL. • ATS starts another site with Georgia-Pacific in Lovell, Wyoming.
• ATS employees, including Jud Swan and Rich Pillman, run the St. Jude Memphis to Peoria run. • ATS-UK’s HR team takes part in the UK “Mudderella”.
26,705 Employee training courses completed
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Review April June
• ATS celebrates its 29th birthday. • ATS sponsors Red Cross event, featuring country music star, Sara Evans – raises $450,000. • ATS office located in the Chicagoland area is officially dubbed the “ATS Building” as the ATS logo is placed on building and visible to thousands of travelers daily. • CAT-Wolverhampton in the UK receives the Diamond Safety Award.
May • ATS takes reigns of the global CAT Service Desk, answering 1 million calls annually. • ATS UK awarded “Best Companies To Watch”. • The Wall Street Journal runs feature story on ATS. • ATS team runs alongside 25,000 participants in the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge in Chicago.
• ATS celebrates with employee Tim Disbro as his daughter is deemed cancer-free with “Lydia’s No Mo Chemo Party.” • Toyo Tires nominates ATS for the Toyo Innovation Award for greatly improving their inventory management system. • ATS opens CAT Service Desk in Singapore.
• ATS awarded the Caterpillar Supplier Certification award for achieving quality excellence for the fifth time – ATS was the first indirect supplier to receive this award in 2008. • ATS-Greenville participates in the annual Hands on Greenville (HOG) event to help spruce up the community.
October • United Way Campaign raises $181,107. • ATS hosts Superhero 5K and Kids’ Villain Chase in Peoria, IL attracting 500+ participants. • First official ATS “Advantage” site begins at the Micron facility in Sterling, Illinois. • Eaton-Havant celebrates 1,000 days without a safety incident. • ATS-BorgWarner Bellwood and Frankfort finalize registration in the Tool & Die Maker Apprenticeship Program.
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November • ATS starts with Gopher Resource in Tampa, FL. • ATS named “Top 100 Military Friendly Employers” by GI Jobs.
• UK holds charity day for “Help For Heroes.” • ATS helps Santa deliver 1,166 letters around the world. • ATS starts new site with Terex in Watertown, SD
• Test cells project goes live at Eaton-Titchfield, UK.
Lives saved through ATS blood drives
December
1.50
OSHA recordable rate
170,644 Total reach of ATS Facebook posts
ATS Employee Drives Innovation Russell Henderson, an ATS Engineer at the Caterpillar Technical Center, has been developing solutions for manufacturers for as long as he can remember. “When I was 10, I drew a picture of a solenoid engine and sent it to my Aunt who designed axles for GM.” Now, Russell has four patents in various stages of the approval process, with his most recent patent being for a variable flow gear pump.
(ATS team pictured during the first week.)
ATS in the Royal City Royal City, USA that is…The ATS team in Kansas City, Missouri has stepped up to the bat and is doing their part to keep the USG plant producing the mold resistant paper for Sheetrock Brand Mold Tough. Starting with this plant just a few months ago, ATS was able to hire 12 very well-rounded technicians with the drive and passion to do maintenance at a world-class standard. ATS is in one other USG facility, but the potential is huge as there are approximately 50 USG plants in North America.
Russell’s background includes ten years as an automotive transmission technician and it was using this experience that helped him develop this new technology. “Continuously Variable Transmissions (CVTs) had just came out and I knew about the efficiency gains, but also that the car belt type CVT wouldn’t be durable enough for Caterpillar’s on-highway truck. While working in the hydraulics lab, I noticed I could put one heck of a load on an engine or dyno by restricting the outlet of a hydraulic pump.” This lead to the creation of the approved patent.
The plant was built in 1926, well before Kansas City grew into the metropolis it is today, with the downtown skyline now visible from the plant. Besides having a great baseball team this year, the locals will tell you to try the bar-be-cue, especially the “burnt ends.” “We have a great team here – our focus on safety and continuous improvement will drive productivity and efficiency, achieving outstanding results while having fun along the way. USG and ATS, working as one team to produce innovative solutions is the key to what is going to make this site a success,” said Logan McNear, ATS Site Manager.
“ATS has a wonderful culture that enables us to contribute at higher levels than we would at other jobs. They encourage me to be creative and make me feel like my ideas can make a difference. The best part of ATS is the culture.”
You need to call someone at the Corporate office, but don’t know who to call or can’t remember the number? “ATS One Call” can help. Launched in November, ATS One Call includes a menu of the most common departments called by employees, including HR, the IT Service Desk & eFactory Connect. So just
make one call to ATS One Call 309.693.4001.
2014 Retirees
Sammy Alewine Lester Anderson Melvin Barnes Terry Bates Charles Brown John Brown Jim Ferguson Phillip Fortune Dewey Fowler Christine Gordon John Hildreth Cheryl Hopwood
Timothy Houston Christy Johnson Don Johnson Phyllis Jordan Arnold Kersey Rick Lankford Joe Scarbrough Charles Stainback Leslie Strader Michael Watts Donald Wotton
Performance Review Time ATS is getting ready to kick-off the annual Performance Review process. The process will be virtually identical to last year as there are no substantial changes to the form. Be on the look-out for more information. Dec. 15 Self-Review Period Begins Jan. 16 Self-Review Period Ends Jan. 16 - Mar. 13 Performance Reviews Apr. 2 Merit Increase Effective Date