Ensuring innovative, high-quality products and customer satisfaction requires a non-stop commitment to continuous improvement. The Zurn Elkay Business System includes core processes that keep Zurn Elkay Water Solutions focused on world-class performance and growth:
The Continuous Improvement process ensures a culture of engagement and growth. It drives us to look at quality, delivery, cost and growth often, and to involve every associate in making the pursuit of excellence a priority.
We keep our aspirations and actions front and center. Our Visual Daily Management process creates a workplace environment where teams can quickly view progress on key performance indicators, and regularly interact to discuss, learn and pivot as needed to ensure business commitments are met.
Our Problem-Solving process gives us a systematic way to quickly assess the root cause of issues while creating short-term and longterm solutions. It includes a five-step process of defining, measuring, analyzing, improving and controlling, and uses tools such as process mapping, cause-and-effect diagrams and pareto analysis to determine issues and develop solutions.
With our Advanced Manufacturing process, we’re working to increasingly integrate new and innovative technologies in both products and processes. These solutions help us maintain our competitive edge and add value for our customers.
The Demand Management process is our cross-functional process to align sales, inventory and operations planning, and ensure we can support customer demand while managing costs and profitability.
We keep our aspirations and actions front and center. Our Visual Daily Management process creates a workplace environment where teams can quickly view progress on key performance indicators, and regularly interact to discuss, learn and pivot as needed to ensure business commitments are met.
Our innovation process brings together market assessments, the voice of the customers, supply chain optimization, product testing, technology implementation and business development to optimize speed and quality as we commercialize new products and services.