A. O. Smith.'s Expertise Allows Commercial Customization
案件说明
Project:定制/专业产品制造部门
Location:Renton, Washington
Product:Custom Water Heaters
安装：全世界的客户
有时标准尺寸不适合正确。当尺寸介质不起作用时，将敷料室沮丧地沮丧，但大尺寸挂在鞋子试图找到舒适的妥协后，大尺寸挂起。当标准热水器和储罐不会完成工作时，A.O.Smith在伦敦伦敦，华盛顿州的植物植物中转向了大西雅图地区的郊区。
Primarily known as the home of the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Renton’s industries draw from a diverse workforce. The Seattle area is the mecca for medical research and genetics, possesses a strong technology presence in Microsoft, and serves as a hub for the manufacture and repair of ocean-going ships. Renton is also the home of another heavyweight, A. O. Smith Water Product Company’s Custom/Specialty Products Manufacturing Division.
“Having a variety of professional and technical trades to pull from provides a breadth of knowledge and experience that allows us to better ‘think out of the box’ to solve complex issues for our customers,” said Jim Skjelstad, the Renton plant manager.
当标准尺寸或串联单位对于工作不可行时，企业和大型机构越来越多地转向定制单元以满足其水供暖需求。这就是伦敦专业团队为那些对热水需求有更大要求的客户提供定制的更大，重型热水器和储罐的地方。主要客户包括酒店，餐馆，学校，监狱和医院等组织。
Once clients contact the Custom/Specialty Products Manufacturing Division with details of their hot water needs, the team at Renton begins the design process. “Using the trade knowledge and technical expertise of our team, we can assist the customer in providing the best fit for their application, said Skjelstad. “Once we have a clear understanding of our customers’ needs, we work to provide them with a trouble-free unit for their hot water needs.”
Typically, the Renton team works on custom units for their clients. For instance, a company may require several units to be designed and built that consist of two 1,000-gallon tanks with dual energy sources, such as electric and gas or electric and steam, and have 3,000-gallon per hour recovery. This kind of order may take up to three or four weeks to complete and ship. But, there are requests for projects with dimensions far beyond this scale that take months in planning and production.
A. O. Smith.received a request in December 2006 for the largest project in the Custom/Specialty Products Manufacturing Division’s history: an order for sixty custom water heater units. These units ranged from 120 gallons to 4,000 gallons. For some of us, it’s difficult to envision a single tank with a diameter of seven feet standing over twenty feet tall. But, the Renton team conceived and produced all the units within six months.
它是伦敦定制团队的态度，提供其竞争优势：一种信念，即任何概念都可以实现现实。
一种方法并不适合所有(PDF)
