Ray Bohannon
Maintenance team member,
Copeland Corporation,
Lebanon, Mo.

Ray has worked at Copeland’s Lebanon facility since January 2, 1992, when it was still under construction. The plant manufactures scroll compressors for the air conditioning industry and supplies industry leaders such as Carrier, Rheem, Lennox, Goodman and others with the most advanced scroll compressor on the market today. All the units from this facility exceed the new national standard of 13 SEER rating.

Ray has held several key positions in the plant. He has been a leader of the maintenance group for Component Machining. His team maintained the computer-controlled milling machines that mill the main bearing housings for the compressors. Ray has also been a key player in the Scroll Machining maintenance section of the plant.

Ray is now a vital member of the Assembly Lean Manufacturing Maintenance Team, which helps maintain the assembly lines that generate up to 11,000 completed compressors per day. A new line will soon increase this output to 16,000 units per day.

“Five years ago we instituted the Assembly Lean Manufacturing Maintenance Team, in which we charged our maintenance people to seek cost reductions in their areas, and Ray has played an integral role,” says Tom Oviatt, MRO buyer. “He generated some great ideas that allowed us to eliminate inventory and generate some pretty significant cost savings.”

A current team goal is to further decrease TAKT times.

“It’s an experience to see Ray in action, maintaining the current 11 second TAKT times on assembly stations, especially when the call goes out for a ‘Down Line’ condition,” Oviatt says. “This is when Ray excels. His leadership, can-do spirit, and never-give-up attitude gets the line moving again with very minimal production loss. Needless to say, this earns him high regard from all his peers and management here at the plant.” 

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