Tour
Texas Nameplate Company, Inc.
Tour Code: TT-07
Day and Time: Bus leaves 1:00 AM, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011
Length Including Travel Time: 4 hours
Tour Code: WT-07
Day and Time: Bus leaves 7:20 AM, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011
Length Including Travel Time: 4 hours
Texas Nameplate Company, Inc.
Take this tour and see TNC's new Hotrod Intranet; Real-Time Dashboard; SMART Cable TV system; Lean accounting system; Senior leaders in action at a paperless meeting; and much more.
On this tour, you will see:
- An overview of the nameplate manufacturing process.
- TNC's new Hotrod Intranet. (TNC's "production manager.")
- TNC's Real-Time Dashboard that provides access to key measures and is refreshed every 30 seconds.
- TNC's SMART Cable TV system.
- TNC's Baldrige Conference Room.
- TNC's Lean Accounting System.
- Senior leaders in action at a paperless meeting.
Texas Nameplate Company, Inc.
Texas Nameplate Company, Inc., is a small, privately held family business that manufactures high quality nameplates, identification tags, name plate tags and custom labels for high-pressure valves, oil field equipment and other industrial products.
Texas Nameplate is the only nameplate manufacturing company in the world to twice receive a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (1998 and 2004). Texas Nameplate is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 Certified and is known as the expert in "harsh-environment" metallic nameplates for products that operate in rugged locations or under extreme conditions.
(To be announced)
No competitors allowed
High-heeled shoes are not allowed
Leather-like closed toe shoes must be worn
You will be notified as we get closer to the conference to when you can register for a tour.


Dr. Temple Grandin
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