Business & Society Representatives of Baxter Pluvigner will be recognized as a Shingo Prize recipient during the Shingo Institute's Awards Gala during the 37th Annual Shingo Conference held on April 28-30 Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University Pluvigner has received its top recognition "Receipt of the Shingo Prize is a worldwide recognized symbol of an organization's successful establishment of a culture anchored on principles of enterprise excellence and creating value for the customer," said Ken Snyder executive director of the Shingo Institute these recipients are in a class of the best organizations in the world is part of the Healthcare Systems & Technologies segment in the Patient Support System division The site develops and manufactures advanced medical devices which are distributed to over 120 countries the Pluvigner site focuses on its mission to "Save and Sustain Lives" through innovative solutions and a strong commitment to environmental the Pluvigner site has been engaged in a cultural transformation by placing ‘People at the heart of performance’ with the Shingo Guiding Principles as a guide," Marc Capdeville “This award is a wonderful recognition that validates an important step on our path to operational excellence with the ambition of becoming a world reference in the medical industry.” “It started with an idea of ‘Human in the heart of performance’ that we transformed in initiatives that guided us until the moment of the assessment What awesome news when we learned that we were awarded the Shingo Prize This award is a step in our endless journey to excellence.” “I participated in creating our on-site training center three years ago with an ambition: develop everyone to growth together Shingo Principles were a guide to set up our roadmap we designed courses about our cultural levers The target was to align everyone on the same direction we always take care to address ‘head Our community of 20 experts provide more than 30 modules to 500 persons each year; that's a good example why each one contributed to achieve the Shingo Prize.” Baxter Pluvigner’s internal initiatives include its Corporate Social Responsibility program which fosters employee growth through technical and soft skills development These efforts reflect the site's commitment to its employees “Every day I come to work with a smile.” Representatives of Baxter Pluvigner will be formally recognized at the Shingo Institute's Awards Gala during the 37th Annual Shingo Conference, April 28-30 in Provo, Utah. To learn more about the event, visit www.shingo.org/events has been awarded the internationally recognized Shingo Prize from the Shingo Institute Comments and questions regarding this article may be directed to the contact person listed on this page USU's SNAC food pantry recently received a donation of 1,000 pounds of ground beef UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY HEALTH & WELLNESS One town is taking people on a journey through time with an exhibition of everyday objects from the past a weaving loom and traditional curling irons The town of Pluvigner in Brittany has amassed around 350 objects most of which date back to the 1930s or ‘40s while others were used as recently as the 1970s Most are ordinary objects which could once be found on the farm Read more: French farmhouse renovation unearths tools that tell everyday history “We’ve been surprised at how emotional people are to rediscover things from the past,” said Jean-Pierre Mompelier the association which runs the pop-up museum where the objects are displayed and all of a sudden tears started to appear it is a chance to discover old technology for the first time like the young girl who picked up a rotary dial phone and instinctively tried pushing the numbers Some objects remain a mystery even to the organisers “We’re still not sure how the tool for attaching oxen to the plough is supposed to work,” Mr Mompelier said they discovered a strange pair of metre-long tongs It was only once the news report was broadcast that somebody in eastern France wrote a letter to the museum explaining they were used to move logs around in hearths which were once much larger than they are now The pop-up museum opened on June 26 and will welcome visitors every Thursday and Saturday until September 18 Six tips to trace the history of your home in France Carpets, shutters: five things they don't tell you about French houses Back to the classroom: visiting France’s school museums Many remained in France during the occupation With more than one million visitors last year the cemetery is one of the region’s most-visited D-Day sites The fifth Chateaux en Fête festival offers a chance to look around many impressive properties that are usually private which was not carrying weapons and was flying from Belgium to a French base on a training mission crashed into houses in the Morbihan region around the town of Pluvigner "The pilot and the co-pilot were able to eject before the crash They were both located and are alive," the office of the state representative for the region said in a statement Lorient's deputy prefect Pierre Clavereul (R) the commander of the gendarmerie group of Morbihan Pascale Esteve (C) and SDIS 56's firefighters' General Cyrille Berrod (R) give a press conference in Pluvigner It said one pilot had been rescued but the other had become tangled with a high-voltage power line and was left hanging from his parachute The pilot was finally cut loose after a two-hour rescue effort "It was a sensitive and long operation," said senior local official Pierre Clavreuil at a news conference in Pluvigner "It needed a lot of sangfroid," added Cyrille Berrod of the Morbihan fire brigade Images published in local media showed the pilot dangling from the cords attached to the parachute several metres above which had been ensnared by a cable next to the electricity pylon The plane had taken off from Belgium and was heading on a training mission to a French naval airbase close to the town of Lorient The Belgian air force commander Frederik Vansina told reporters in Brussels that the incident appeared to have been caused by an engine problem with the plane but that an investigation would provide further details He said both pilots were in hospital but should return to their families in Belgium as soon as this evening Local security forces evacuated eight homes with a total of 15 residents Clavreuil said one home suffered substantial damage "The lady in the house was in a state of shock and taken to hospital," he said Pluvigner resident Patrick Kauffer told the local Le Telegramme daily that the "wing of the plane took out part of the roof of our house He said the crash also set ablaze his shed and some trees "I am relieved that our two pilots are safe and sound after the crash of the F-16 and there was no victim on the ground," Belgium's Foreign and Defence Minister Didier Reynders said on Twitter The Belgian military "will take care of them and their family A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed yesterday in western France and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after his parachute got caught Emergency workers extracted the pilot safely after cutting off power in the area and he was taken to a nearby hospital for medical checks a spokesman for the regional administration told The Associated Press Surrounding homes were evacuated as the pilot was being taken down and firefighters battled the blaze from the crash One of the plane’s wings sliced the roof and facade of a house in the town of Pluvigner in Britanny Kauffer was at work at the time of the morning accident but his parents were home and described to him the “booms” of the crash “The most important thing is that everyone is OK.” The plane was travelling from Belgium to a naval air base in France when it came down between the towns of Pluvigner and Landaul according to a statement from the regional prefecture View the discussion thread.