ELESTA relays GmbH wins Swiss Lean Award

The ELESTA relays GmbH from Bad Ragaz Switzerland wins the Swiss Lean Award, this award is the only decoration in the field of Lean Management.

This award aims the intersectional judgment of Lean Management orientated companies and honors their achievements. The Swiss Lean Award is hosted by the KMU SWISS AG a platform to connect between KMU businesses. Prof. Doctor Uwe W. Schulz presides the Jury, which was composed out of economic and academic experts.   

The Jury judges according to the following criteria:

·         Leadership

·         Development

·         Production

·         Supply Chain

·         Sales and Marketing

The ELESTA relays GmbH was honored with this price because of the consequent realization of the Lean-Idea in every department of the company. 

Part of the ELESTA Lean-Idea is the embedding of Lean-Production, Lean-Office and Lean-Development into the company's business processes.

The ELESTA relays as an international operating producer of relays with forcibly guided contacts (safety relays) established itself because of its lean concept as an innovative market leader with high economic efficiency.

Management of the ELESTA relays GmbH. Left to Right: René Niggli (Chief Financial Officer), Leonard Jaegli (Production Manager), Martin Pliessnig (Head of Quality and Environmental Management), Martin Kunschert (General Manager), Farzad Parsaie (Head of Product Development), Fred Schwendener ( Purchasing and Logistics Manager), Marco Giger (Head of relay development - laboratory), Jürgen Steinhäuser (Sales and Marketing Manager)