Day 2- TRV, LDC, &WB

Day 2- TRV, LDC, WB


TRV

Our first stop of the day was TRV. We walked in and meet with Jimmy Barbour, Tammy Goff, Christina Valenzuela (which I didn't realize was Erica Coronado's sister), and Doug Case who was the one who gave us the tour of the facility. We later had a meeting with all the people above plus Rick Loiacono who is in finance operations. Justin and Natalie discussed the at risk process with them.
 

 

I thought this machine was cool. The little board on the floor on wheels is controlled with a little remote and can be inserted in each row. Its job is to pull pallets that are far back forward.

 

Tetra line:

 

Boxes come in a roll (photo below) and are then put into the machine and it makes the box and fills it all in one step.

 

Machine below scans the bar code on each box:

 

The machine below is used if the line gets backed up. It saves the line staff 3 minutes before it would become backed up.

 

Below is where the caps are glued on. If you look close you can even see the little metal prong (looks like a metal tooth pick) which holds the cap down for a few seconds.

 

Any box that is dented or the machine registers as damaged gets spit out of the line.

 

The packaging machine, making the cardboard box the Tetra's go into.

 

TRV tanks:

 

TRV wetlands:

This is were the reclaimed water goes. I thought it was going to look like a swamp, but it was actually very beautiful. It is a park where the employees can go to have picnics and it is a half mile to mile down the road from the facility.

 

Crushing station:

This is located behind the ponds. Trucks dump grapes here to get crushed. Before the unload the grapes, each truck of grapes is tested to find out the quality of the grapes. That then leads the trucks to different lanes or crushing stations.

 

LDC

 

At LDC we met Ramon, Kelley, Amanda V, Mike Dutton. I spent some time talking about Free Flow with Amanda and Kelley. Then Bill Hicks gave us a tour of the warehouse. After the tour I sat in another at risk meeting with Kelley, Bill, Ramon and Rick (who met us at LDC).

 

 

Opus line:

 

All bottles being hand labeled:

 

All bottles being hand wrapped:

 

Opus inventory at LDC:

 

Casa barrel and lot, this is what the order looks like for someone who orders the barrel and rest of the lot.

 

 

The library- rows of at risk product.

 

After LDC Bill drove us over to Vaz Brothers warehouse quick so we could see the operations at that warehouse before we head out. It is amazing that all the reworks are done my hand. It was also cool that Phil Vaz was around and gave us a quick tour of the warehouse.

Woodbridge

 

Our last tour of the day was at Woodbridge. This facility was huge and very organized. When the trucks arrive they actually go into a parking lot across the street with rows that are numbered and once WB is ready to receive the truck they call the truck over by row number and that trucker goes to the drop off/ crush area and mines up in the row they were assigned across the street.

 

 

Front office/ reception:

Meet Josh Schulze for a tour of the facility.

 

Line 1:

I was amazed at the size of both line 1 and 2 here!

 

Line 1 is to the right and line 2 is all the way to the left.

 

Line 2:

 

Line 3:

This is the line that was removed from CDB and re-built at WB.

 

Line 4:

This line produces the 187 packed wines.

 

TRV Tanks, there concert slabs are actually there in preparation that they might need to add more one day. They built the facility so they would have room to grow.

 

All the tanks have to be the same height because of the cat walk that is set up on top. The tanks can therefore only get wider.

 

Mobile line set up at TRV. I thought it was pretty cool that this line runs out of a tractor trailer.

After the tour we meet with Helen Maxwell and Fred Miller from the QC team. The meeting was mainly to go over the At Risk process, but I was still able to pick up on their processes.

After the meeting with QC I meet with John Foronda to talk about the Free Flow process. It was more so nice just to put a face to a name and see exactly what he has to do go take product on and off QC holds in JDE.

Our last meeting of the day was with Chao, Frank and Barbra A (who just happened to be there). Again it was nice to put a face to the name.