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Leading the Field We are reinforcing our leading position with the development of new products and innovative technologies. 02 04 06 07 08 09 10 12 13 14 15 16 Interview with Winfried Kaiser Innovative.Ground-breaking.Securing our future. S-VSI TWISTER and G-BH2 VELOCIS What are customers willing to spend their money on? Interview mit Rainer Schiessle A Japanese invention Lean management Transparency.Speed.Sustainability. Interview with Percy Dengler Ni hao Wuxi – Hello Wuxi Apprentices report from the Schopfheim training department Factory Improvement Project (FIP) Trade show dates Attractive.Informative.Comprehensive. The new Elmo Rietschle website They‘ll attract attention.For sure. New brochures for products and applications Jubilees and jubilarians in Schopfheim Legal notice. Focus. August 2008 Publisher: Gardner Denver Schopfheim GmbH, Roggenbachstr. 58, 79650 Schopfheim, Germany, Ph: +49 7622 / 392 0 Responsible for content: Angelika März Coordination: Angelika März The contents are the intellectual property of Gardner Denver Schopheim GmbH and are protected by copyright. Users may only download, print or copy the content of this newsletter and the technical information available in the Internet for their own purposes. No amendments, duplication, dissemination or publication of the content or parts thereof, neither online nor offline, may be made without the prior written agreement of Gardner Denver Schopfheim GmbH. Focus Dear Reader, We all entered 2008 with great expectations. The year commenced with the conclusion of the Schopfheim Factory Improvement Project. We now have well-equipped operations – operations whose output has been considerably raised during the past few months – and more than anything else, we were able to markedly reduce our delivery times. >>
LEAN Project Naturally there will still be more improvements once this project has been concluded. Mr. Schiessle, with the support of our external expert Greg Lane, has already got the LEAN Project, which is to optimize or production procedures, off to a most successful start. We must live continuous improvement You are perhaps asking yourself why we are concentrating so much on enhancing processes and procedures. There are, in fact, three good reasons for this: • We need to reduce costs of our products in order to be able to survive in the face of international competition. • We need to reduce our stocks of materials as we want to use our capital to invest in the future and not to finance stocks. • We need to be able to promptly meet rising demand for our products. And we should not forget here that simply placing new machines in production is not going to bring any results as such. The challenge lies in mutually developing new procedures and in thinking lean. Only then will we be able to make the most of these new possibilities. Concrete company targets We are aware that our employees want the management team to communicate concrete targets. Well, on the one hand there are the targets that apply for corporate divisions at Gardner Denver and which either relate to commercial aspects or issues such as inventory reduction and worldwide materials procurement. For the operations in Schopfheim and Bad Neustadt we have also undertaken to achieve the following delivery times by the end of 2009: • High runners, i.e. products produced in large numbers, are to be produced and ready for delivery in 24 hours – i.e. without resorting to available stocks. • Repeat products are to be produced in four to six weeks. • Special products requiring considerable adaptation to customer requirements are to be produced in eight weeks. Customer satisfaction In the end these measures serve to provide our customers with the best-possible service: with first-class quality products made available at adequate prices in the shortest possible delivery times. As well as providing a competent consulting service and a customer-oriented After Sales Service. New products We have also made good progress in developing new products. The focus of attention has been on four new product launches over the past few months: • S-VSI 300 TWISTER screws have now gone into series production, thanks to the new production machines for screws. • The claw vacuum pump product line is being rounded off. • A remarkable number of orders were placed in the first few months of this year for the highly efficient G-BH2 VELOCIS side channel blowers. • Our product line of liquid ring pumps has been expanded by a model with high water carryover. The pump is mainly used in the plastics industry. Looking into the future, we see the best markets and opportunities in contact- focus | August 2008 | 3 free technologies – i.e. S-Series (screw), C-Series (claw) and G-Series (side channel) but we will not be neglecting the other technologies. A look towards the outside After having been reorganized, the European operations are now to a large extent consolidated and cooperate constructively in implementing our targets. Incidentally, we were represented at more than 50 trade shows during last year and this year. Be proud of your company – you have good reason to be. We are expanding our activities in Asia, where we see the best chances for future growth. An increasing need for high-quality products can be perceived, and we wish to meet this need, so we are working hard at meeting stricter quality requirements. There has been another organizational change for the American Blower Division entity: Gardner Denver Hanover was recently allocated to the Compressor Division in order to be able to optimally utilize the available sales channels of this corporate division. An extremely close network of dealers is based in Quincy, offering our products considerable additional sales opportunities. Let me sum up as follows: we have achieved a great deal and will still become even better! Be proud of your company – you have good reason to be. We are technology and market leader in many fields. And be confident in passing on this pride to customers and suppliers. Winfried Kaiser Blower Division Vice President and General Manager
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