Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 17, 1992 TAG: 9203170055
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GEORGE KEGLEY
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Brock, general manager of Drive Systems for two years, was promoted to vice president to lead the new organization. He will remain in Salem.
Installation & Service Engineering installs and services Drive Systems projects and about 75 percent of its work is for other GE groups, according to Roger Farley, human resources manager at the Salem plant.
Brock said combining the two businesses will let them serve customers more effectively through project installation and beyond.
Installation & Service Engineering will retain its Schenectady, N.Y. headquarters. Brock said he will name a general manager there soon. Its 1,200 employees there and at seven district offices provide engineering and installation for drives and controls, machine tools and power distribution equipment.
Drive Systems has 2,400 employees, mainly in Salem. They design and make drives and automation systems for metal, paper and power-generation plants and for material handling, oil well drilling, mining and general industrial applications.
The new organization will have a full range of industrial drives, controls, automation and installation engineering and service for domestic and overseas customers.
Brock will work directly under David Genever-Watling, a senior vice president who heads GE's Industrial & Power Systems in Schenectady.
Brock said the new organization's objectives will be to increase customer satisfaction, product and service quality and to enlarge profitable markets.
Brock, 46, joined GE in 1968 after earning an electrical engineering degree from Georgia Tech. He also has a master's degree in business administration from Lynchburg College. He was general manager of technology and production for Drive Systems for a year before he became general manager.
by CNB