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News Release from: Tornos Technologies
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 September 2005
Tornos restructuring brings rewards says
CEO
Recently Tornos restructured into business units, and with its new structure and procedures in place, the company is already reaping the rewards as CEO Raymond Stauffer discusses.
Recently Tornos restructured into business units, and with its new structure and procedures in place, the company is already reaping the rewards as CEO Raymond Stauffer discusses Recently Tornos completely restructured the company into business units
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 11 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This arduous task has taken over 18 months to complete - but with its new structure and procedures in place, the company is already reaping the rewards as CEO Raymond Stauffer discusses.
* The Business Units - 'Engines of innovation' - the organisation of our company into business units is now complete.
This structure provides increased flexibility at internal operational level and since each business unit fully manages a range of products (single-spindle and multispindle) the flexibility is passed on to our clients.
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Turnkey, multi-spindle lathe has own bar-feeder
At the EMO in Hanover during September of this year, Tornos will unveil as a first throughout the world, its new multi-spindle lathe working on the DECO concept: - the MULTIDECO 32/6 i.
Advanced CNC automatic enhanced further
Since its first appearance at the EMO, Hannover, last year, the Tornos 20a has been further improved aesthetically and the counter spindle increased in diameter.
It ensures the organisation is fully focused on the product with the main purpose built around maintaining relationships between the client and Tornos.
The new structure enables Tornos to continually develop products and services to meet the customers specific requirements.
The business units are to a certain extent the 'entrepreneurial' cells of the company.
Thanks to direct and personal contact, the clients feel that they are working with a small dynamic company that listens to their requests rather than with a large, impersonal corporation made up of many difficult to access departments.
* The 'Market - R and D - Market' loop - with the strong back-up of this new structure, Tornos has hit upon 'innovation' as the buzzword for 2005.
The pillars of innovation are essentially based on customer requirements and technological developments.
The business units provide the link between the market and our engineers.
This ensures that the circle formed by the defined requirements of knowledge exchange and execution of development is permanently closed.
No less than six new products will be launched during the next twelve months.
Designed on the basis of market studies conducted by the business units, they are the first fruits of the work carried out through continuous dialogue with the Research and Development department.
What the customer expects of Tornos? Listening to our customers, the following main requirements were underlined: * Customers need the capability to machine increasingly complex parts.
* Customers are looking for less expensive machines to work fairly complex parts.
* Customers require increased flexibility (rapid set-up and changeovers) for small series runs.
Meeting your requirements is the first guiding step of Tornos towards innovation! Thank you for having shared your visions and requirements with us and please continue to do this in the future.
EMO 2005, Hannover, Germany, September 14-21, Hall 17, Stand D08.
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