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Mission Statement
TQM and Quality
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Pandjiris Provides Weld Positioning and
Welding Automation Solutions!

For over 75 years, Pandjiris has provided efficient, safe, consistent, and reliable automated welding and positioning solutions, including: welding positioners, welding manipulators, tank turning rolls, weld controllers, self-centering welding grippers, seam welders, slides & swivels, head & tailstocks, turntables, and custom systems. Pandjiris’ primary focus is in meeting and exceeding our customers’ expectations. With a wide range of standard equipment combined with engineering and applications expertise Pandjiris has the flexibility to design and manufacture automated systems for almost any application across a wide range of industries: pressure vessels, pipe fabrication, aerospace, aviation, shipbuilding, defense, HVAC, transportation, truck, and trailer body building, among others. Pandjiris application engineers take the time to get to know our customer’s unique situation and work with them to develop a system that meets their needs.

As a result, Pandjiris is recognized in North America and many countries around the world as #1 in providing Fixed/Mechanized MIG (GMAW) and subarc (SAW) Automated Welding Solutions and for its expertise in developing solutions for TIG (GTAW) and plasma (PAW) applications. Our solutions help our customers control costs, and improve quality, reliability, and throughput.

Can you buy cheaper? Yes, you may be able to purchase individual components for less, but you will find it very difficult to buy more economical Fixed Automated Welding Solutions generating a quicker payback. No one packs more value for the dollar into their Automation Systems. In addition to steel, electrical and mechanical components, Pandjiris solutions include years of design experience across a wide variety of applications. The expertise of our welding technicians, the skill of our fully trained fabricators, welders, and electricians, the watchful eye of our quality assurance department, support from our customer service and parts departments, and the dedication and commitment of all our team members bring our customers the best solutions possible.

Pandjiris celebrates over 75 years of successful operations, and looks toward greater opportunities for service to the welding, joining, and positioning industries as the 21st century unfolds.

Pandjiris® Inc.’s Mission

This mission statement is the beginning of personal and organizational leadership. It is our vision. It provides overall direction and clarifies purpose and meaning. By referring to it, and internalizing its meaning, we are more likely to choose behavior that serves our values, and reject behavior that opposes them. It is congruent with our Total Quality Management philosophy.

Pandjiris is a team of highly motivated individuals dedicated to the sales, design, manufacture, service, and installation of automatic arc welding systems and positioning equipment characterized by superb quality and economic viability. Our strategy is to thoroughly understand our customers’ needs and respond to them with flexibility and commitment.

We are committed to the recruitment and development of the best individuals in our industry. We strive to provide our people personal and economic security, physical safety, and a high quality of work life. We provide them with opportunities to grow and learn, and to take pride in the successes of the organization. We maintain an open-door policy at all levels, encouraging the flow of communication and exchange of ideas. We foster an atmosphere of clear expectations and proactive involvement. We recognize the effort and importance of each team member and his or her active role in the success of the entire company. We expect Pandjiris people will be known for their character, commitment, competence, integrity, and teamwork.

We are committed to providing our customers with products and services of superior quality. We seek to exchange guidance and training. We strive to exceed our customers’ expectations in terms of quality, innovation, service, delivery, and price. We serve our customers in a manner that is fair, honest, courteous, dependable, and professional. We are responsive to our customers and dedicated to their satisfaction. We seek to earn and deserve our customers’ loyalty.

We are committed to identifying and developing long-term relationships with the best providers of materials and services. We promote cooperation, involvement, and mutual benefit through clearly defined expectations and understanding. We expect our suppliers as partners and team members to be dependable and fair, and to provide superior products and services on-time.

We are committed to leading the “Positioning and Automated Welding Solutions” field through integrity, innovation, flexibility, and dedication to customer satisfaction. We will maintain an active leadership role in the welding industry by promoting research to improve technology applicable to our products and by promoting safety throughout the industry. We strive for shared growth and mutually profitable relationships with leading welding equipment manufacturers.

We are committed to the enhancement of the communities in which we are a part, through the economic vitality and aesthetic value of our property, and by our leadership and active participation in community affairs.

Through following this mission statement, Pandjiris has become:

#1 in Mechanized Welding Automation

Defining TQM and Quality

Total Quality Management

Total Quality Management, TQM, is the continuous process of striving for improvement involving everyone in an organization. TQM guides us by focusing on first-time quality and customer satisfaction. This improved performance is directed toward satisfying such cross-functional goals as quality, cost, schedule, and suitability. The effort is ultimately focused on increased customer satisfaction.

Quality

On a daily basis, our customers ultimately define quality for us. If our customers are satisfied with what we produce, it is a high-quality product. Most customers define quality as getting a product with no defects, on time, and at a competitive price. We want to exceed our customers expectations.

This stance on quality is the way to satisfy customers today, and to ensure that our team is a step ahead of our competitors in satisfying customers tomorrow.

Supplier Partnerships for TQM

Quality is a basic but powerful idea. Quality is what our customers pay for, expect, and deserve. But quality is not a new idea. In a continuing search for quality, Management recognized we must adopt a continuous improvement philosophy to realize our goals. An integral part of that philosophy is a focus on total quality. Furthermore, TQM is an operating philosophy that promotes customer satisfaction through achieving the highest quality at the lowest possible cost. At the heart of TQM is customer satisfaction as the customer defines it.

Like you, we want to delight our customers — so much that they keep coming back to us because we have gained a reputation for excellence and they can count on us.

We face a challenging future in the current business climate. To meet the challenge and succeed, we have advanced our corporate culture by embracing TQM. Because of our commitment we reevaluate the way we do business. As we change the way we deal with our employees, we are changing and improving how we deal with our suppliers.

Supplier involvement is vital. Suppliers are a major part of our team, now and in the future. Suppliers are an extension of our enterprise. As our business partner, we ask suppliers to join with us as we reshape our thinking and restructure how we work to satisfy our customers with first-time quality, on-time, at the lowest possible cost.

The issue we face is, how do we continually improve our performance. But just as important — and maybe more so — is, how do we improve our suppliers’performance? Supplier input represents from twenty to thirty percent of our product content. It makes sense to focus on our supplier relations as an area in which to achieve total quality.

Customer Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction is the goal of TQM, but to provide that satisfaction we must know who the customer is, understand what they expect, — seek ways to improve their satisfaction, and establish channels for communicating with them. Typically, Pandjiris has looked at the end users of our equipment as “the customer”. In reality, we have many other customers. This includes everyone on our team starting with each other as fellow employees, our outside sales representatives and distributors, our suppliers, insurance broker, attorney, banker, and consultants. We are all responsible for providing each other with first-time quality. We provide each other with drawings, materials, work definition, reports, information, communication, and so forth, so that we can, in turn provide each other with goods and services.

When we supply products or services to each other, it is our job to ask, “what are your expectations and are we satisfying them?” When a teammate asks us for assistance, we must respond. When a teammate suggests methods to improve our quality, we must react. To do a quality job, we must understand each other’s needs and be committed to meeting them.

With TQM, we break down any barriers that hinder strong partnerships. We work with each other to determine what specifically we can change to make our product better.

We encourage suggestions and want to communicate with each other, establishing teammates as customers and furnishing everyone with first-time quality is a vital part of our success. Together, we can learn from one another. And, together, we will develop alliances that will move us into the future.

Customer satisfaction can be achieved by addressing three areas simultaneously:

  • The way we work together.

  • The way our work is done.

  • The environment in which we work.

Pandjiris® Inc. Capabilities

Pandjiris®, Inc., has been involved in the design and manufacturing of weld tooling and positioning equipment since 1946. Our products are utilized in a wide variety of metal fabricating industries including truck and trailer manufacturing, earth-moving equipment, metal furniture and container manufacturing, power generation equipment, defense, shipbuilding, railroad car production, pressure vessel production, and aerospace. Pandjiris’ facility is located at 5151 Northrup Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. The facility has over 46,000 square feet of office, warehouse and production floor space.

Pandjiris’ production plant incorporates two large bays oriented to provide a smooth logical production flow for product manufacture. Our fabrication, machining, assembly, painting and electrical departments are capable of producing the automated systems we manufacture from raw material to final product. Each production bay is equipped with large capacity overhead cranes that run the full length of the bays and are capable of lifting even the largest of our products. Our engineering department is staffed with engineers experienced in the design of sophisticated tooling dedicated to the automation of production style welding applications.

Pandjiris’ utilization of proven design technology mixed with innovative tooling concepts and welding expertise provides customers with automated welding systems that increase product quality and productive throughput. Pandjiris can provide customers with complete turnkey systems that increase production capabilities while reducing labor costs.

Pandjiris has designed and patented a wide range of mechanical designs throughout our history. Early patents included specialized welding grippers designed specifically for the harsh environment of the welding industry. Special clamping systems were patented based on the unique characteristics and results they offered. An example is our Four-Bar Linkage clamping system that provides a directional clamping force ensuring pressure in a manner that results in consistent joint fit-up on longitudinal seams. This design facilitates repeatable quality welds. The Four-Bar Linkage Clamping System has been utilized on a number of weld seamers supplied to customers. The most notable application is the 45’cantilevered seamer supplied for the manufacture of Delta II Launch Vehicle fuel tanks. A Four-Bar Linkage clamping system provides greater fit-up and clamping capabilities than the standard paddle finger design offered on most industrial seamers. Pandjiris continues to offer technological advances in the design of equipment for the welding industry.

Pandjiris is moving into the 21st century with a vibrant outlook on the advanced systems capability we offer our customers. Pandjiris continues to make significant strides in controls, robotics and total system integration capabilities so our customers can be assured they are partnering with a motivated solution-driven team. Pandjiris takes pride in offering the capability of complete turnkey solutions for our customers.

Pandjiris makes a full commitment to provide high quality automated systems for our customers and directs its quality assurance efforts to ensure that products meet or exceed the requirements of our manufacturing customers. Pandjiris’ facilities and personnel have proven to be more than capable of providing quality welding systems delivered within the time frames customers request. Pandjiris takes specific steps to ensure the commitments made to our customers are satisfied. We employ program management techniques and philosophies to ensure all Pandjiris’ team members approach commitments with the same goal in mind:

Satisfy the need of the customer.

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