World-class quality and efficiency

Staying Lean means amplifying value-added activities so manufacturing operations can move faster and produce less waste. For example, why automate what’s not useful? Using proven Lean tools, we can identify and reduce the number of non-value-added activities so you can maximize the value and effectiveness of Industry 4.0 technologies.

Through best practice sharing, industry benchmarking and a global Lean Six Sigma competition with more than 300 participating teams, we make sure we’re advancing the latest in efficiency and mistake proofing.

When it comes to your critical requirements, consistent performance is everything. We deploy systematic process improvements at our ISO certified manufacturing facilities using define, measure, analyze, improve and control (DMAIC) and design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodologies to reduce variation, eliminate scrap and rework, and implement process control.

For regulated industries like healthcare and automotive, you can have confidence in our compliance in product creation and scaling. We have also made impressive progress on our Quality 4.0 implementation, putting us on par with fewer than 30% companies worldwide that have taken this leap. Our Quality 4.0 program is built on a strong foundation of our quality management system (QMS) across multiple standards.

Triple the speed - and sustain. These are the goals driven by our Kaizen to Business Needs (KTBN) workshops. We’ve set quality targets for productivity improvement, inventory reduction, lead time reduction, scrap elimination and defects elimination. And because people are our most valuable asset, we regularly hold internal Kaizen workshops to equip our teams with the resources and tools they need to reach those targets - and then set even higher ones.

We leave no stone unturned in our continuous improvement journey. That means suppliers and customers are vital contributors in our end-to-end process. We’re constantly engaging both parties to deliver the highest quality products and reduce manufacturing cost through improved efficiency.

We start by choosing the right partners through our Preferred Supplier Program (PSP), which helps us select supplies that meet or exceed our quality and cost standards (among other factors). And ask any employee - internal team involvement spans all levels of our culture of continuous improvement.