Bay Shore, NY • Fontana, CA • Fairfield, OH Vol. 36 • Summer2014

Stress is Good

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Almost every day while driving to or from work,I witness drivers that would kill another driver ifonly they had a weapon. “Road Rage” seems to bea phrase that has been coined in the late ‘90’s andis continuing into this millennium. I began tothink this was a New York phenomenon, but aftertraveling most of the country, I found it to benationwide. Actually, I read that in Californiathere have been some killings due to “RoadRage”.

Personally, I have found myself getting veryaggravated with other drivers who make inanemoves on the road and I, too, have been temptedto retaliate in some manner. Is it really worth theadded stress?

The American Heritage Dictionary defines stressas “physical or mental overexertion”. When aperson stresses a muscle by overexertion, it canusually be healed by slowing down and taking abreak from a particular activity. For example,pounding out four buckets of golf balls at thedriving range in an hour is overdoing it!Something is bound to be hurting after thatexcessive activity. With physical stress, the causeand effect are fairly clear.

Mental stress is another ball game. Mental stresscan lead to physical troubles and are not alwayscrystal clear. During a normal day, everyone isfaced with various levels of stress. From childrento retired adults, all of us experience many levelsof stress that occur during all of our wakinghours. Too frequently, I have found myself withneck, back, and even jaw pain, having no clue asto what was wrong with me. After some self-analysis, it was clear that mental stress got thebest of me and I realized it was time to get itunder control.

Eliminate the non-important stresses in your day.If that driver wants to cut you off to get himselfto work 30 seconds earlier, then let him do it andsmile; it is really not a big deal. When you get tothe office and spill your coffee on your desk, useit as a good excuse to clean up and get betterorganized. At lunchtime, you may find yourfavorite pizza shop has a long line; wait it outrather than running like crazy to find a place thatmight have a shorter line. This kind of stress isnot worth your while and will assist you inhaving a “bad day”.

Save yourself and your body for important busi-ness and family situations. Those are importantissues where stress is actually good. You can usethis stress as positive energy that will steer youtoward making good decisions both personallyand in business. I find that this type of stress,usually caused by a problem, will get me motivatedto either calling a meeting at work or planning aquiet dinner with my wife, getting things ironedout before they escalate into a more significantsituation.

I have certainly found this “stress control” to bevery helpful and hope that you can also utilizesome of these practicesto help you relax a bitand take life “easier”.

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Peter Fee, Director of OperationsI started my career with Fairchild Republic buildingthe A10 fighter jet as an Industrial Engineer in theMachine Shop after getting an Associate’s Degreein Mechanical Technology anda Bachelor of Science inIndustrial Engineering atthe State UniversityColleges at Farmingdaleand Buffalo. After a seriesof quick steps I wasbrought onboard as thefirst ManufacturingEngineer with a small startup company by the nameof Symbol Technologies inHauppauge. Over the next13 years I grew with thecompany building a staff ofengineers, establishing newsystems, new teams and two factory moves before moving into TechnicalMarketing and then Quality. Along the way I gotmy Masters in Operations Management from NYU.

I left Symbol in 1994 for an opportunity with theAdemco Group (now part of Honeywell) asDirector of Operations Engineering with responsi-bility for all manufacturing support at two siteswith a staff of 71 engineers and support people.As is now the norm in the business world, weeventually shifted all manufacturing to the lowercost enter in Mexico under Honeywell’s directiveand I decided to leave the company rather thanrelocate. My next opportunity landed me withD’Addario & Company as their Director ofOperations, a privately held company which man-ufactures musical accessories including guitarstrings and drum heads, in fact they make morethan 300,000 strings a day! There I worked withmy teams to improve productivity, shipping fillrates and eliminating order errors to name justa few.

After parting ways I did some consulting workbefore returning to Symbol Technologies, nowpart of Motorola as a Senior Program Manager inEngineering where I was responsible to supportseveral products directing and coordinatingEngineering and Manufacturing teams in China,Israel, India and the U.S. Not wanting to spendthe rest of my career with a phone attached to myear I left and returned to manufacturing withTelephonics then with Davis Vision where I wastasked with transforming a lab operation into amanufacturing process, making up to 4,000 pairsof prescription eyeglasses a day.

So my latest and most exciting challenge lands mehere with Duro Dyne.

Over the years I accumulated a vast amount of

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As we all know, Janeen Mills is an excellentemployee and has done a great job as InventoryControl throughout her career at Duro Dyne.Consequently Janeen has accepted the promotionto Receiving Coordinator. Janeen now has directoversight of all receiving personnel and proce-dures. Janeen will report to Floyd Basset and withthe help of Isabel Rotger will continue to overseeInventory Control.

Janeen Mills

Janeen Mills, our new Receiving Coordinater

manufacturing experience from electronics tooptics to machining, molding, printing and eveneyeglasses! The common theme throughout is theprocess. You can break anything down to aprocess and evaluate each step to improve theoverall product or the way it is constructed. You’llsee a lot of information about Lean Manufacturing,Six Sigma, etc., but at the core of all is commonsense. Most times when you take a step back andan objective look you can improve anything.And remember this; you can’t fix it if you can’tmeasure it.

That’s what we’ll do here at Duro Dyne. We’llevolve into a cross trained and responsive team sowe can delight our customers, beat our competitorsand make Duro Dyne the place where we come tomake a difference every day.

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Janet is very experienced andeducated in Human Resource

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that Janet is the top choice to manage our HumanResource Department.

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will continue to focus more onHR concerns as she assists Janet in building thedepartment. Please join us in congratulating Janeton her promotion.