We will explain you a bit about what each value stream is all about and how our employees are experiencing this innovative new way of working. Here we speak with Ruud Beekman, value stream Manager at Lamers, about working within the value stream Feedthrough & Dynamic Links. 

Lamers develops the beating heart of the innovative machines used in the semiconductor industry. Some call it the control cabinet, others describe it as an operating system or distribution center. Regardless, we ensure that everything comes together within the high-tech chip production chain - liquids, gases, everything - and works in perfect harmony. The Feedthrough & Dynamic Links value stream delivers the complex connections within these various systems.  

Feedthrough & Dynamic Links delivers extremely complex connections which are bent, cut, and especially welded down to the finest detail. We do high precision work in low volumes, carried out in a perfectly clean environment - a powerful specialization which we are incredibly proud of. 

We are good at top-level engineering. Customers like ASML and Carl Zeiss trust us with the development of their most essential, complex constructions. We continuously innovate and have to constantly ask ourselves: Can it be better? Cheaper? Faster? Smarter? And of course, we not only engineer and develop designs, but also produce what we develop.   

We only started with the value stream last month, which means that we are currently changing over from a functional to a matrix organization, so our first challenge is to just get the value stream up and running. 

It is too early to be able to share a success story linked directly to our value stream, apart from the good vibe we see within the organization and the way that people are picking up the change and contributing to the way forward. That said, we did get awarded with a new NPI project (Dynamic Link EXE 5000) by ASML, which shows their level of trust in the steps we are taking as an organization.  

Generally speaking, we strive to ensure structured and prioritized implementation of quality-driven process- and product improvements to deliver both internal and external customer satisfaction. Specific things we are working on in this value stream are industrializing ⅜ inch internal welding, developing laser welding, and further rolling out our work center concept into this value stream.