Environmental Protection and Quality PI and PI Ceramic products are manufactured in an environmentally friendly manner. PI's Integrated Management System (IMS)
includes not only the ISO9001 Quality Management but also
Environmental Protection and Job Safety (according
to ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:1999).
This system assures legal conformity of all procedures
as well as continuous optimization of the
processes at all PI locations.
Moreover, the quality of the products and services is
a decisive factor for competitiveness and success of
PI. Business partners can be sure that PI delivers high quality
products, something which not only certified
customers have come to appreciate.
Kaizen: Good is Not Good Enough
We want our customers to be excited about the quality of our products and services. An important tool in this quest is Kaizen, a Japanese philosophy of involving the entire enterprise in a strategy of analysis and continuous improvement of all procedures.
Periodic workshops bring the Kaizen ethos to all PI employees, helping with goals like making production more efficient, eliminating unnecessary processing loops, or instituting "just in time" parts management. In this way the company can assimilate new developments more rapidly and make important resources available where needed. Delivery times and costs are reduced and quality improved.
Flexibility Through Modern Organization Fractals, Kanban, Demand Flow Technology
The PI Production Department is divided into several autarkic Fractals. Each Fractal is virtually a company within the company, responsible for all procedures from procurement and production planning to quality testing. Parts replenishment is, to a large extent, handled by Kanban, a parts movement system making heavy use of visual signals in place of documents. Small parts are no longer ordered or tracked internally at all, but rather supplied by an outside service provider (outsourced C-part management). All other aspects of production and procurement underly a Demand Flow Technology system.
Flexibility Through Competent Partners
High quality requires qualified partners. Over the years PI has thus qualified a number of highly specialized suppliers with whom we now work as partners - partners whose conception of quality is every bit as high as our own.
Parts replenishment is controlled by the Kanban parts movement system.
View of the storeroom. Small parts are no longer ordered or tracked internally at all, but rather supplied by an outside service provider (outsourced C-part management).
