Recently, Cummins honored seven of its employees with the Company's highest technical award for their work on two inventions. Mark D. Akins, Bryan W. Milburn, Dennis M. King and Greg M. Pataky were recognized for their work to improve turbocharger technology on Cummins’ midrange engines. Steven M. Bellinger, Brian C. Tyler and John F. Kalill received the 2012 Perr Award for developing a system and
Ten years in the making, Cummins Emission Solutions is demonstrating that a company can be green and profitable at the same time. Sales for the exhaust after-treatment maker have gone from nothing in 2002 to $1.2 billion in 2011 while Cummins Emission Solutions’ workforce has grown from just 11 employees to more than 1,400 today. “This is all about green jobs,” says Srikanth Padmanabhan, Vic
Water can be a scarce resource in certain regions of Mexico, but Cummins plants in the country have implemented a variety of initiatives to use the resource wisely. At Cummins New and ReCon Parts in San Luis Potosi, plant officials are monitoring soil moisture in green areas to create efficient irrigation methods. They harvest rainwater from a cistern with a capacity of 3,612 cubic mete
The Cummins campus in Guarulhos, Brazil, is near several major highways and São Paulo’s international airport. Traffic in the area is frequently bumper-to-bumper. Green space is limited. But over the past three years, nearly 800 Cummins employees have planted some 5,000 trees in the area. Not only has their work helped beautify the city, the air is cleaner, dust has been reduced and temperature
Cummins South Africa employees decided it was not enough to merely increase recycling in Alexandra Township, an informal settlement of Johannesburg, South Africa, near the Company’s offices in Kelvin. To really address Alexandra’s problems, they had to look for ways to reduce the area’s population of rats – some the size of small cats. And the best way to control the rat population, they con
For much of the past year, workers on the second shift at Tata Cummins Limited Plant 2 in Phaltan have witnessed something rarely seen on a shop floor in India after 7 p.m. Women. Women are now working from 2 to 10 p.m. in the plant at Cummins’ Megasite, about two hours southeast of Pune. They normally are not allowed to work past 7 p.m. but Tata Cummins is one of a select number of manufact
At the height of Super Storm Sandy, Cummins Power Systems’ Steve Philips went 21 hours without sleep, his phone ringing 40 or 50 times per hour until he finally nodded off at his New Jersey home, his computer and cell phone in his lap. Three hours later, he was back working the phone again, trying to find generators for desperate customers in New York and New Jersey left powerless by the mammot