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The unprecedented 2020 hurricane season has battered the southern and eastern edges of the United States week after week. Although many beach towns have plans in place to keep damage to a minimum, sometimes mother nature strikes harder than anticipated.  The Florida panhandle experienced this recently when Hurricane Sally stalled over the Pensacola area for nearly 12 hours. Locals had been

On October 11, the world celebrates International Day of the Girl, a time to recognize the challenges girls face around the world and raise our hands to help create transformational change. Women and girls are half the talent and potential in our communities; when girls rise up and succeed, so do entire communities. While we celebrate the incredible ongoing achievements of so many women and girls,

Let’s define productivity as getting the job done faster, and increased productivity helps miners do more with less. In the mining business, productivity is sometimes less space being consumed by an engine, leaving room for more payload or less time to accelerate, thus maximizing the number of trips a day.  Miners have several opportunities to improve their operational productivity; below

How does a Haitian New Yorker come to work in Columbus, Indiana? It all started when Didier Leveille's friends wouldn't stop talking about Cummins.  A culture that fits In his first engineering job, Didier made some friends who went on to work for Cummins. It wasn't long before they started raving about their experiences. They talked about Cummins' career development resources, e

Today, we celebrate Manufacturing Day 2020!  Manufacturing Day is the industry’s largest annual opportunity to celebrate modern manufacturing and inspire the next generation of talent to pursue a career in the sector. Companies across the globe open their doors (even if it is virtually this year) to our youth, parents, teachers and communities to experience our world’s most iconic industry

Some things are just better together: pen and paper, coffee and donuts, peanut butter and jelly - and at Cummins, accountants and lawyers.  Just ask Ethics & Compliance Manager Doug Roolf. As a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Doug's brain runs on numbers and spreadsheets - but with a team half full of lawyers, he's come to appreciate complementary personalities and new ways of think

The company's historic Columbus Engine Plant (CEP) was recognized by Indiana (U.S.) Gov. Eric Holcomb for a range of initiatives to save energy, conserve water and reduce waste. The company was also named a 2021 Military Friendly Employer® for providing opportunities to veterans and their spouses. Finally, Forbes and Statista named Cummins to its 2nd Annual America’s Best Employers by State l

A crucial requirement of G.P.R.’s facility upgrade in Coreno Ausonio (FR), Italy was continuous operation around the clock, no matter the operating or environmental conditions. As part of the upgrade, a new, reliable generator was needed to better support their energy needs. For this reason, G.P.R., a specialist in crushing granules of marble and other stones into calcium carbonates, selected a

With more than eight years working in the hydrogen industry, Anna Murray has dipped her toes into some of Cummins' biggest fuel cell and hydrogen technologies projects. You may have seen recent announcements about our fuel cell trains across Europe or may have caught wind of our deployment of the largest PEM electrolysis hydrogen facility in the United States, and now our work on the world's large

NACV is one of the largest gatherings in the global on-highway industry with fleet owners, original equipment manufacturers, maintenance managers and over 15,000 trucking industry professionals typically gathering in Atlanta, Georgia during the last week of October to attend the four-day event.  Visit Cummins at NACV Cummins had a strong presence at last year’s NACV show,

Linebarger, however, said the importance of masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) has been perhaps the most valuable lesson, giving him optimism about the company’s ability to operate in the future while protecting the health, safety and wellbeing of all its stakeholders – employees, suppliers, customers, communities and shareholders, as well “The first thing we know is that masks and d

A lot has happened in the two years since that story was posted as the company pursues its mission of making people’s lives better by powering a more prosperous world:  1.    PLANET 2050 In late 2019, Cummins unveiled PLANET 2050, an environmental strategy to address climate change and other environmental issues. The plan includes challenging, science-based goals timed to

Although he hasn't been in the Cummins office over the last few months due to COVID-19, Jaydeep Patel has been working hard to adapt to the "new normal" of working from his home office, keeping his projects on track. As the Inverter Technical Project Leader, Jaydeep's role involves leading a small technical team to develop traction inverters and power electronics platform components for batte

One of the most important machines in the modern row-crop production cycle is the sprayer. From helping prepare the ground prior to planting, to applying fertilizer during key points in the growth cycle, a sprayer is a valuable piece of equipment for today’s farmers.  The Apache AS 1250 XP sprayer by Equipment Technologies (ET), which is powered by either a 260 or 300 horsepower (HP) B6.7

No doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has brought countless unexpected variables with an extended effect on projects’ life cycles including supply chain, manufacturing and testing. At the end of 2019, Cummins Africa Middle East was contracted by a leading provider of cloud and computing web services to supply nine (9) C3000D5E units enclosed in customized acoustic enclosures, extending the system that

Powering a passenger train with hydrogen. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but in Europe, this is now a reality. Cummins’ customers can depend on a range of technologies from diesel and natural gas, to fully electric and hydrogen solutions. As the demand for zero-emission transportation increases, alternative technologies continue to be the right solution for customers around the

Allan Dearth Generators and Sons is a generator dealer based out of Scaly Mountain, North Carolina (USA) that is giving “family business” a whole new meaning. Owner and operator Allan Dearth has been doing electrical work for many years and even in the early stages was familiar with Cummins’ product. But it wasn’t until his eldest son decided to move home and dive into business with him that th

A California resident that worked in the technology business and lived in the San Francisco (USA) Bay area is a familiar story. But one that is a little more unusual, is the female tech guru that left the coast to settle her roots on a 13-acre horse ranch in the more remote area of Pilot Hill, California (USA). Meet Lory Hopkins, a west coast homeowner living the dream. Hopkins is a businesswom