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Highlights
Go and see how Watlow implemented lean principles that span all areas of its business and have enabled scalable and rapid growth across the globe.
Overview
Alignment begins with the front end of its business and permeates through all areas of production, including capacity and workforce planning and order management connecting multiple product value streams through well-defined and layered standard work. These highly efficient value streams use visual management to connect leadership with work cell performance, providing real-time visibility to key metrics and identification of continuous improvement opportunities.
Company
Watlow is a global industrial technology company that uses its world-class engineering expertise, advanced thermal systems and manufacturing excellence to enrich everyday life. Many of the world’s leading companies leverage Watlow's technology in vital applications such as semiconductor processing, environmentally-friendly energy solutions and lifesaving medical and clinical equipment, to name a few. Founded in 1922, Watlow culture is driven by its purpose of “enriching lives through inspired innovation,” enabling it to deliver high-impact solutions that improve its customers’ competitive advantage. www.watlow.com
