Annual Report 2002 Komax – Success through ... - Komax Group

Komax Group
Employees by function in 2002
20__
Production 40%
Marketing and sales 25%
Development 14%
Engineering 12%
Management and administration 9%
Production – flexibility required
Fluctuations in incoming orders posed a big challenge for production.
Extreme flexibility was required from employees and external partners
alike. Procurement and production processes were further streamlined in
order to optimize capacity while still guaranteeing short delivery times.
New working time models were also introduced. Parallel to this, the Group
intensified its cooperation with suppliers. Only by making processes transparent
and involving the strategic partners at an early stage can we successfully
provide the required quality and flexibility at the right cost. Quality
and delivery punctuality have been improved by over 20% with the “Supplier
of the year” program.
Komax has relocated production of the Gamma 333 fully automatic
crimping machine in line with its production strategy. Since mid-2002 the
entire Gamma family has been manufactured and shipped by Komax Portugal.
The cooperation with Sibos has also been further improved, thereby
enabling additional synergies to be generated, especially in the areas of
machining and strategic procurement.
Quality management – towards “Business Excellence”
Apart from safeguarding the status quo, the further development of the
existing QM structure in the direction of “Business Excellence” was one of
the key tasks in 2002. As a first step the company’s processes were defined
on the basis of the new, process-oriented QM model ISO 9001/2000.
Then main processes and sub-processes were defined, which must now
be described in detail and implemented by the end of this year. The object
is recertification according to the new model in December 2003.
Ecology – creating the basis
Komax is well on the way to achieving its own ambitious targets with
respect to its environmental impact. Detailed analyses have been made of
the actual situation in order to provide the necessary basis for decisionmaking,
a number of improvement projects have been defined and the
required budgets earmarked. Against this background it should be possible
to improve the environmental impact within the targeted scope during
the current year.