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News Release from: GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms UK
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 August 2002
15th anniversary for US/Japanese joint
venture
This year GE Fanuc Automation celebrates the 15th anniversary of the joint venture between parent companies GE of the USA, and Fanuc of Japan.
This year GE Fanuc Automation celebrates the 15th anniversary of the joint venture between parent companies GE of the USA, and Fanuc of Japan In the past 15 years, GE Fanuc has grown in more than 55 countries with major operating subsidiaries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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In Europe, with its empowered workforce, the company has doubled its sales, reduced costs, improved productivity and quality, and reduced cycle times.
Honoured by customers, media, and government agencies, GE Fanuc has won more than 50 prestigious awards.
The latest accolade is the prestigious supplier of the year from the Gildemeister Group, Europe's number-one machine tool builder and number two in the world.
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Won against strong competition, GE Fanuc was adjudged to have the best quality with fewer than 0.02% errors throughout 2001, with the possibility of failure in a GE Fanuc CNC unit to be only once in every five years.
Said Josip Tomasevic, Gildemeister's group purchasing director: "We declare GE Fanuc the quality world champion in respect of Gildemeister suppliers in 2001".
As an ISO9001 company, GE Fanuc took up the challenge of the new ISO9001:2000 standard and secured registration in 2001.
Rapid progression to the new standard was due in no small way to the company's already established six sigma quality practice which is an on-going drive in the direction of continuous improvement.
Six sigma, named after the scale of measure, eliminates uncontrolled variations in products, processes, and even information transfer, including customer service.
Its goal is to reduce quality defects to less than 3.4ppm, which constitutes the most rigorous approach to quality and improved productivity.
As declared by David GS Avrell, President and CEO, GE Fanuc Automation Europe: "As the global leader in automation technology, our mission is to improve manufacturing productivity for customers worldwide in all aspects of productivity improvement, flexibility, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and user friendliness".
Key areas of concentration are machine and process automation, factory IT, and service to customers, whether they be machine tool builders, end users, system integrators, or distributors.
The hallmark of GE Fanuc business philosophy is dedication to an all-embracing combination of reliability, high-performance productivity, innovation, global presence, and customer care.
Recently, the company formed a new Global Solutions Business to assess, design, implement and monitor e-manufacturing systems that align factory floor operations with critical business goals.
This new division combines the extensive knowledge base of the GE and Fanuc organisations with worldwide experience, web-centred software technologies, open architecture hardware and capital financing to drive turnkey, industry-based manufacturing solutions. Request free introductory details about products from GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms UK ...
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