BIW Compact 1-2013 English

04 INNOVATION AT A GLANCE Compact When it comes to competence When it comes to competence BIW Isolierstoffe GmbH Pregelstraße 5, D-58256 Ennepetal, Germany Tel.: +49 (23 33) 83 08-0 Fax: +49 (23 33) 83 08-10 Responsible persons: Ralf Stoffels, Dr. Markus Wiethoff Editorial office: Ralf Stoffels, Dr. Markus Wiethoff, Anja Auerbach Layout and setting: lessingtiede.de IMPRINT CONTACT All rights reserved. No part may be reproduced, stored in a data system or transferred in any form, neither electronically nor mechanically through photocopy, photography or by any other means without prior written approval. BIW AT MEDTEC 2013 BIW presented its portfolio especially for the medical industry at the 2013 MEDTEC trade fair, which took place from 26th to 28th February in Stuttgart. Many interested visitors took the opportunity to learn a lot about BIW’s wide range of products. Our new leaflet for the medical and pharmaceutical industry, which was very helpful here, can be viewed at www.biw.de. Please don’t hesitate to ask us if you would like develop- ment support with a new or an existing project. Our team of professional developers would be delighted to assist you. The successful certification of our staff management system according to the international standard “IIP – Investors in People” does not mean that we have finished setting up a systematic approach to support our staff. In fact, it’s only now that many of the measures resulting from the interviews with our employees will start to really be implemented. To make sure that all our employees are truly with us as we strive to become the market leader in the technology indus- try and to ensure their know-how as professional experts is incorporated in their respective work systems, the entire company has been divided into small work groups who con- sciously take a one-hour break from their work every week to take a look at areas they don’t normally think about. The discussions take place at the Kaizen meeting places set up in each department and area and focus on three main subjects: Training courses included in the company’s basic and advanced training programme Current company information Continuous improvement in accordance with the Kaizen philosophy The training courses are run by qualified internal experts who have many years of experience and who are part of the respective team they are training. The courses are split into “basics” (essential information, some of which is legally specified) and “experts” (special handling instructions for specific process steps). All scheduled training courses take place in the form of matrices in areas which can be accessed by anyone. This means they can be used to create tailored development programmes for individual employees. The current information discussed at the weekly meetings generally concerns the targets of the respective area, trends which are affecting quality standards and any important feed- back from the market or customers which is received by all the company’s work systems. BIW has worked with Kaizen methods on a regular basis since the middle of the 90s and is continuing to invest in con- tinuous improvement and resolutely include all its employees in this as part of its staff management system. More specifi- cally, this means that processes at the individual workstation (“gemba”) are always being optimised and that standards are always being scrutinised. A “Kaizen newspaper” and “Kaizenmeetingminutes”ensurethattheweeklymeetingsare efficiently prepared for and reviewed, and enable internal im- provement suggestions to be implemented quickly. Besides the basic and advanced training programme, there are a number of other new additions to the BIW staff man- agement system. One example is the company health pro- motion scheme (Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung – BGF), which allows each employee to have an individualised health programme worked out for him or her so that he or she is physically well prepared to deal with future demands. An emphasis on good and fair working relationships based on the basic conditions described in the new company agree- ment completes the activities BIW has introduced in the interest of the future of the company and the future of all its very competent employees. BIW AT CWIEME 2013 From 4th to 6th June 2013, BIW will be showcasing its products at the CWIEME trade show in Berlin, the world’s biggest exhibition for electromagnetic coils, electric motor and transformer manufacturing, rewinding, and electrical insulation. We look forward to seeing you at our stand, which is stand 2027 in hall 2.2. BASIC AND ADVANCED TRAINING – THE FOUNDATION OF SUCCESSFUL STAFF MANAGEMENT Hall 2.2 | Stand 2027 — Ralf Stoffels

BIW Compact 1-2013 English

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