As a global company operating in over 190 countries, Cummins encourages its employees to look for ways to improve the communities in which they live. This past June, Mark Levett, Vice President - Corporate Responsibility, visited Mexico to learn more about how Cummins employees are leading improvement projects that are helping the region. Joined by Ignacio Garcia, Vice President of the Mexico A
The Redefining Tour has been on the road for 33 days! Our trucks have rolled over a lot of pavement and cast their headlights on some exciting places in the first month of the tour. Let us break it down for you… Our trucks have… Traveled over 2,000 miles Rolled over more than 70 highways and roads Our drivers have… Clocked over 35 hours behind the wheel The fleet ha
We don’t walk to places like people once did. We use our cars to get to work, the store, a friend’s house, everywhere; as a result, fuel efficient vehicles are in high demand. But the demand reaches further than just your average car or truck. Cummins On-Highway customers want to improve their fuel economy too. That’s why in 2014, the Cummins India Area Business Office created a council dedicat
When customer feedback pointed to an inadequate process for ordering replacement turbo parts, Gerben Van De Biezen, Regional Sales Manager in Europe, formed a team to streamline the process. The Net Promoter System (NPS) showed that Cummins customers felt their requests for Vehicle Off Road (VOR) orders weren’t being answered with enough urgency; they expected an estimate on lead-time and cost
On National Women in Engineering Day, held June 23 in the United Kingdom, employees from Cummins Power Generation (CPG) stayed busy by working across sites in Kent, Peterborough and Stamford, England in support of the Cummins Women in Technology (CWiT) forum, an initiative championed by Cummins’ Chief Technical Officer, John Wall. Their aim? To encourage careers in STEM and promote opportunities f
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh in a series of articles highlighting Cummins’ 2014 Environmental Challenge winners. Drinking water is of primary concern for parts of the world that are prone to drought. City officials in Xiangyang, China, which recently suffered a severe drought, have been concerned with the scarcity of water. Cummins China, CXCMC, chose to focus on the region for
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth in a series of articles highlighting Cummins’ 2014 Environmental Challenge winners. Follow us on Twitter @Cummins to be notified of new articles. At Cummins’ one of our values is to take Corporate Responsibility in communities in which we serve. As a company we are always looking to improve and serve the areas in which we operate from. Pu
Cummins is quickly making our mark on the great north as we traveled with our five-truck fleet through Ohio, Michigan, and made our first foray outside of the US into Canada. The Redefining Tour stopped just outside of Canada’s largest city, Toronto, in Mississauga at the Cummins Eastern Canada distributorship. It was a great few days spent in the area last week connecting with
Barbecue and lots of ice water were the name of the game last week as hundreds of customers, dealers, Cummins employees and Cummins fans filled the parking lots of the Columbus Engine Plant in Columbus, Indiana, the Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio, and Cummins Bridgeway Branch 003 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for our first three Redefining Tour stops. We had sweltering heat in Columbus and heavy
Nope, not Santa…but you can expect to see the color red! We all remember that feeling the night before Christmas. Excitement filled the air and the anticipation of what was going to be under the tree kept many of us up all night. Well, here at Cummins, we have that exact same feeling as we are only days away from the kick off of our much anticipated Redefining Tour! It has b
The Vision Statement of the Willoughby School in Bourne, Lincolnshire, UK reads: To inspire every child to achieve excellence in their learning and personal development through creativity and innovation in a happy and safe environment. It’s this dedication to learning and personal development through innovation that has made the Willoughby School such an important community partner of Cummi
Dark. Dirty. Dangerous. Declining. Those are the words that likely pop into the heads of people when they think of "manufacturing." However, modern manufacturing actually means something completely different. It means thriving business, technological innovation, diversified products and quality jobs. In the United States, there's a manufacturing resurgence taking place and Indiana is helping lead