FOCUS Magazine

Bunge-Ergon Vicksburg, LLC used Kaizen, a systematic team-based rapid improvement workshop, to treat excessive wastewater in their holding tanks. The one week event now saves the company over one million dollars per year.

“A strong business, a strong neighbor, a strong resource!” can be said of Ergon Marine & Industrial Supply, Inc. (EMIS) in Vicksburg, Mississippi. EMIS personnel have often helped ensure the safety of people and recovery of commercial river vessels when navigation on the Mississippi River goes awry. EMIS helps the Port of Vicksburg’s United States [...]

Ergon Refining, Inc. (ERI) in Vicksburg, Mississippi has done it again; accomplishing another “First!” among the Ergon, Inc., family of companies. ERI has long been a leader in quality innovations and, in December 2010, became the first Ergon business registered in Environmental Management System (EMS) standards set by the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) in [...]

Ergon’s annual auditor training classes were held January 25 – 26, 2011, in Jackson, Mississippi, attended by 36 employees. In addition to their regular full-time work, these employees apply and are selected to audit management systems and processes for Ergon facilities and operations. Most work two audit assignments a year, with each audit lasting 2 [...]

It takes a confident manager to pursue the new performance improvement (PI) audits offered by Ergon’s System & Performance Improvement Department. These audits “dig deep into details,” as bottom-line assessments that verify an organization’s compliance with the exact steps and sequences of their own operating procedures. These audits typically are requested by managers of organizations [...]

There are many business standards by which companies pursue excellence and continual improvement. While the companies comprising Ergon, Inc. implement the International Organization for Standardization’s ISO 9001:2000 requirements, another system used by many companies today is the Baldrige National Quality Program and its related Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) which will be summarized later [...]

Thank You and Best Wishes . . . • David Wigginton, Quality Engineer David accepted an external promotion in May 2007, and now works with the Nissan Corporation in Canton, Mississippi. David returned to his home state from Alabama in 2004, working as Quality Engineer with the Systems & Performance Improvement Department. We wish David [...]

That’s right! We’ve updated our introductory quality classes, “Introduction to ISO 9000 Quality Standards” and “Building Continuous Improvement in the Workplace” by combining them both into a single class, “Introduction to Ergon’s Quality Management System.” This new course includes new and updated material taught in a shorter length of time. Many of you know that [...]

Will Rogers said, “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Ergon’s document control program and the employees who manage it, not only ensure that we are on the right track, but are always looking for ways to improve our document control process. Ergon’s document control program [...]