April 25, 2024

Innovation story

Giulio Mazzalupi Award 2024 - Automated manufacturing line

The winners of 2024 developed and implemented an automated manufacturing line, that truly shows operational excellence.
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The Giulio Mazzalupi Operational Excellence Award, established in 2018, aims to reward a person or a team for significant contributions to improving and executing processes aimed at delivering products or services to customers in the most satisfying, sustainable, cost-effective, and timely manner.

This year the award goes to Johan Dom, Marcel Horemans, Karel Vennens and Dave Verresen in the Airtec division within the Business Area Compressor Technique and the motivation reads.

Giulio Mazzalupi Award 2024 winners: Johan Dom, Marcel Horemans, Karel Vennens and Dave Verresen

By developing and implementing specific component distribution solutions, new processes, change management and training the Automated Air End manufacturing line has generated a highly stable, cost effective and increasingly sustainable production process. Using mechanical ‘fingerspitzgefühl’ to operate in the most complex processes in industry manufacturing the team behind the Automated Air End manufacturing line has truly shown how operational excellence can be achieved.

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