FIX PROBLEM, DON'T HIDE IT
March 07, 1994
About your Feb. 21 Viewpoint ("Changing APC affiliation a bad
move,'' Page 6), I agree completely. As a plastics processor, I have
seen tangible benefits from the Society of the Plastics Industry/American
Plastics Council functional and philosophical affiliation. A recommendation
to affiliate APC with the Chemical Manufacturers Association is not
a surprise coming from a task group headed by a past CMA staff chief
executive. I think that result was inevitable, but I don't think it
was a planned agenda at the beginning by those making the appointment.
The real surprise to me is the approach to quality and efficiency
improvement at APC.
Without having the personal experience of working for a large chemical
firm, I can only guess, but my suspicion is that the chemical chief
executive officers stimulate improvements in their own companies
by identifying problems and eliminating them -- not by moving them.
Why wouldn't the same logic and approach apply in their involvement
with APC? Why not keep APC with SPI and eliminate the problems within
APC, not just move them somewhere else?
I don't get it.
George A. Makrauer
Amko Plastics Inc.
Cincinnati
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