York Repair

Thursday, October 2, 2014     It was the Thursday before Easter weekend when the situation started. York Repair was working at a large rubber manufacturing company in Grand Rapids, investigating a failure on a 1250hp DC motor. The motor failure would have caused the shutdown of North American Operations in a matter of week, if they were not back up and running. The repair of their motor was a minimum 3 weeks due to the catastrophic failure of the winding's. We were investigating alternate options for locating a used motor we could get delivered and installed.

Friday April 25, 2014     The Technical Service Manager and in-house "Expert", Steve Jezowski turns 60 years old today.  Steve, who started with York 38 years ago, was the second employee hired by Frank York (the first was the late Bob Lewis).  He trained in the Navy and was immediately hired following his military service.  Steve also teaches technical classes at Delta College.  Steve is known throughout the state for his vast knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

Wednesday, January 22 2014      Congressmen Dan Kildee visited York Repair along with The Bay Area Chambers Manufacturing Council.  The Congressmen, a freshmen Democrat, toured the facility with Frank York and family, management, Michael Seward, president and chief executive officer of the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, and local media members.  Jeff York, the Council Chair, led the group through the tour.  Kildee spoke to several technicians before taking questions from the press, followed by a luncheon, and a Q & A with the Manufacturing Council.

Friday, September 20, 2013    York Repair's Annual clay shoot was held in September and over 40 customer's showed up to enjoy a day at the beautiful Bay County Conservation Club in Crump, MI.  Several sales and management staff at York, including Frank York as seen above, teamed up with customers to blast away at little clay pigeons, which seemed to be coming from everywhere!  A lunch served by Bay Cafe was enjoyed as well.

Thursday, June 27, 2013    We recently purchased a new pick-up for our fleet and decided to try a graphics wrap.  After acquiring several quotes, we settled on Graphik Concepts in Farmington Hills, MI.  After several weeks of changes between our marketing department and their designer, we got it right!  A local designer, Adam Wernecke, designed the York "Dude" holding the big wrench.  York has many plans for this new mascot, an electro-mechanical "tough-guy" technician; it represents strength and tenacity, with a little bit of attitude!  If you happen to see the new truck

Monday, April 29, 2013     Recently, the Bay Area Chamber Manufacturers council met at York for a discussion on new business development.  The Council, which champions area businesses and brings them together to talk about best practices, helps others’ to shorten the learning curve in business.

Friday, April 12, 2013     Earlier this year, York Repair finished its second session of Dale Carnegie training, held on-site.  They put 50 employees through the course in 2012, with the remaining employees having taken it previously.

This past week, York was given, “The Dale Carnegie Leadership Award,” for their commitment to integrating Dale Carnegie training company-wide.  The award was presented to them by Dan Handley, the President of Handley and Associates who conduct the training, and Wendy Groll, who instructed both sessions and was praised for her work.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013    Joe Ellers, author of “The Sales Managers Handbook: How to Get the Results that You Want,” dropped by last week for an intense 2-day sales training.  Their entire sales staff and several others, including many newcomers to York, attended the training.  Many left buzzing at all the knowledge they gained and where to focus their efforts to be successful.  A couple of concepts that Joe focused on were, “know what goals the customer is trying to accomplish each year, what’s important to them, and how your sales can accomplish their goals.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013     This is for a 4,000HP, 2-pole (3600rpm) rotor. Ron, with the assistance of Steve and John, is heating it up to 1,300 degrees (shown here) to melt the solder so they can slip on the new copper rings, which were manufactured by York.

First, they restacked a new lamination, and then they put in new copper bars before heating it up. Finally, they will let it cool down over night before balancing and machining it, and assemble before delivering it to a waiting customer.