Topic(s)
- Technology
Join Watlow’s tour, which will take you through its advanced Technology and Development Center, revealing how innovative ideas are transformed into commercialized thermal solutions.
Please note: Only U.S. citizens are allowed to attend this tour. The tour site will provide safety glasses.
Overview
The Watlow team will highlight the company’s seamless integration of front-end innovation and back-end execution and show how customer needs and advanced research fuel design and prototyping and how those innovations are engineered, manufactured and delivered to the market.
Watlow will provide various stops along the tour highlighting the following:
1. Advanced technology center, including research, design, testing and manufacturing coming together to solve our customers’ thermal challenges
2. Labs showcasing life and endurance testing capabilities, design simulation and product failure modes
3. Manufacturing excellence, going to the gemba, featuring KPI boards and operational strategies to meet customer needs
4. Machine and factory automation highlighting software, automation inspection and digital twin scenarios
5. Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement strategies detailing how Watlow is doing versus customer commitments, including goals from the cells
This tour isn’t just about the products that Watlow manufactures, it’s about how the company makes it happen. Participants will walk away with a deep understanding of how front-end innovation is seamlessly connected to back-end execution, forming a powerful connection to solve its customers’ needs.
Company
As a world-class industrial technology and thermal products leader, Watlow designs and manufactures heating solutions consisting primarily of electric resistive heaters, temperature sensors, temperature and power controllers, and supporting software – all the components of a thermal system. The company partners with its customers to optimize thermal performance, decrease design time and improve the efficiency of products and applications. Watlow brings 100 years of experience to numerous industries, including semiconductor processing, clean environmental technology, energy generation, diesel emissions, medical and foodservice equipment. https://www.watlow.com/
