Carl Zeiss NTS Ltd. (Cambridge), part of the newly formed Carl Zeiss Microscopy business group today announced that it recently won four awards – three Best Factory 2011 Awards and one Manufacturing Excellence Award.
CAMBRIDGE/UK, OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 09.12.2011.
Best Factory Awards
- The Best Factory 2011 Awards included:
- Best Electronics & Electrical Plant Award,
- People Management Award, and
- Health & Safety Award.
The award for Best Electronics was based on the company´s family of advanced scanning electron microscopes (SEM), manufactured in Cambridge. The systems of the type EVO and SIGMA are used for many applications in life sciences (e.g. searching for cures for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases), materials analysis as well as in a constantly increasing number of industrial applications, including quality control, process control and particle analysis. They excel through highest reliability, user friendliness and unique performance with respect to imaging and analytical capabilities.
As for the People Management Award, the Best Factory judges praised a strong training ethic at Carl Zeiss’ Cambridge site: “There is a commitment to training and education for all employees and a management team working on getting everybody actively involved in improving the business, not just in manufacturing but in other areas too.”
The Health & Safety award was earned, in part, by the Cambridge factory’s five-year run without a single reportable accident despite operating potentially hazardous equipment.
The company proudly accepted all three prizes at a gala awards ceremony attended by several hundred industry leaders at the Park Lane Hotel in London. Dr. Marek Szwejczewski, director, Best Factory Awards, summed it up when he said, “It takes some outfit to get to the winner’s rostrum – but to be nominated for consideration in five categories and chalk up outright wins in three is an achievement with few precedents. That is the magnitude of Carl Zeiss’ achievement this year.”
