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 Fasco Doubles R & D With New, On-Site Tech Centers
"Rather than centralized R & D, we're focusing on a concurrent structure that puts our R & D team near the manufacturing facilities that will make the new products they design," says Jim Doyle, President of Fasco. "In this structure the research and development team will have no day-to-day manufacturing operations responsibilities, yet they will have the real-world advantage of knowing where their efforts are directed and how their work will be translated to the manufacturing floor. We fully expect to dramatically cut the development time for putting new products on the market." The reduced amount of time for R & D to see its work bear fruit stems from the concurrent nature of the new structure. The R & D team will save substantial development time by the very fact that they can get manufacturing questions answered by simply "walking down the hall" rather than having to communicate with someone across the country which is often the case in a central R & D structure. In the concurrent structure, setting up the tooling and production side of a project can literally go on simultaneously with R & D. "We believe that its important for R & D to have viable product goals in mind," says Donald Schlump, Vice President Research & Development. "Yet, we don't want our people so hand-cuffed that they're actually serving more as application engineers rather than R & D people. "By implementing this concurrent structure, we're challenging our R & D people to concentrate on specific technologies and not specific clients. We want the teams to focus on new materials and design concepts that have industry-specific promise and not be concerned with whether a product will meet the needs of a client's existing product." Fasco is already seeing results from its new R & D efforts. Each of Fasco's four divisions have products currently available or nearly available that are a direct result of its concurrent R & D structure. Highlights from each group include:
Fasco's Tech Centers are currently involved in long-term materials research into a variety technologies that hold great promise. Unclassified research areas include powdered metal motor design and high performance magnetics. "Fasco's new R & D structure allows instant, seamless integration into our international expertise base available through our parent company," says Palazzi. "This allows us access to expertise and resources that go far beyond what would otherwise be available to us on our own. Ultimately, our customers are the beneficiaries of this synergism because of the advanced, affordable products that will result." The four Tech Centers created as Fasco's R & D core represent each of the company's four divisions: AC Motors, DC Motors, Air Movement and Power Transmission. The Tech Centers for each of these fours divisions are as follows: Motor and Control Tech Center, AC Motors, Ozark, Missouri; DC Motor Tech Center, DC Motors, Eaton Rapids, Michigan; Air Moving Tech Center, Air Movement, Cassville, Missouri; and, Gearmotor Tech Center, Power Transmission, St. Clair, Missouri. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Fasco is a leading manufacturer of specialty motor products in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and Thailand. |
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Fasco announces the implementation of a new Research & Development program that effectively doubles the company's new product development efforts in terms of people, facilities and dollars invested.