When CEO Tom Linebarger looks at the Cummins’ high horsepower plant and tech center in Seymour, Indiana, he sees the critical importance of international trade. The 800-employee facility produces Cummins’ QSK95, the largest high speed diesel engine in the world. The company has invested about $500 million to launch the engine, and just over two-thirds will be shipped outside the United States.
The following op-ed was authored by Paul R. Miller, Director of External Relations, Cummins Corporate Research & Technology Over the course of my 35 year career, I have seen enormous changes for our company and tremendous growth, particularly since 2002. When I began in 1982, Cummins had around $1 billion in revenue, dominated by the North American Heavy-Duty Truck market, while internat
The following op-ed was authored by Tom Linebarger, Chairman and CEO of Cummins Inc. and Chair of the Business Roundtable International Engagement Committee; and Mike Bertsche, the President & CEO of Camcraft. After years of negotiations, the 12-nation trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership is facing its toughest challenge yet: election-year politics. The fact is, TPP and U.S
Cummins has been named again to the North American Index of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, one of the leading independent measures of corporate sustainability in the world. The company was one of fewer than 150 corporations to make the North American list in 2016. It has made the index every year since 2006. The Dow Jones indices are prepared by RobecoSAM, the world’s leading investme
Think you have what it takes to help Cummins improve the company's environmental impact? Cummins has launched a new program that connects with the supply chain to help improve the company’s impact to the environment and reduce its carbon footprint. Called the Environmental Gateway, it aims to discover innovative submissions from suppliers to Cummins’ UK facilities, whose goods and se
Women have long been under-represented in engineering in the United States, so when Cummins Chemical Engineer Alyssa Arend met with a group of Girl Scouts last year, she had a secret weapon to pique their interest in the subject: A model of the company’s QSK95 engine made entirely of LEGOs. “What makes this so great is that it effectively shows how the STEM area is both approachable and re
The gray, rectangular machine emitting a bright blue light doesn’t look particularly impressive as it quietly goes about its work at the Cummins Technical Center (CTC) in Columbus, Indiana. But some believe the technology it uses could one day change manufacturing as we know it. 3D printers can take extremely detailed instructions to make precise objects a layer at a time, with relatively li
Some students at Schmitt Elementary will soon spend part of their school day having fun with rubber bands, straws, plastic tubes and other household items. Not to worry, it’s just the second year of an innovative introduction to the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) called the Curiosity Machine. More than 70 Cummins engineers will be helping 5th and 6th graders at the sc
Cummins received high marks from two key sustainability indexes recently – the 2016 Newsweek Green Rankings and FTSE4Good. The company finished 85th in Newsweek’s review of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the United States and 14th in the industrial sector. Newsweek’s rankings, released last month, are done in partnership with Corporate Knights and HIP Investor. Cummins finished
It's amazing how a game of Jenga can encourage safe behavior. O.K., the “Live It. Lead It.” safety training for employees at Cummins involves a lot more than stacking blocks. But many participating employees say the class is doing more to promote safety than any training they’ve ever taken. “The experience I had in the classroom was different than any training I’ve ever had,” said Debbie Lim
Sometimes, the true test of a company comes when times are challenging. Despite weak global markets, Cummins achieved record results in its environmental and community engagement efforts in 2015, according to the company’s new 2015-2016 Sustainability Progress Report. Cummins, for example, exceeded its 2020 goal for reducing water use intensity five years early and met the company’s 2015 goal f
Five years ago, Banudas Sarak cultivated his barren farmland, producing a single crop just once a year. By 2015, his crops multiplied, yielding 12 months of work and an additional $8,000 in annual income. He is one of many near Phaltan, India whose lives have improved significantly because of Cummins India’s “Model Villages” program. “I am thankful to Cummins for showing the way,” Sarak sa