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Managing Innovation
Fritz Awig
Vice President, Engineering and Operations
February 28, 2014
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Managing Innovation
• Company Overview
• Product/Market Evolution
• Managing Innovation
• Recognizing Good and Bad Innovation
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COMPANY OVERVIEW
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Pressco entered the High-Speed Vision Inspection Market in 1983
Company was founded in 1966 as an engineering-oriented machine tool distributor
Today we are considered an innovation pioneer in advanced on-line, computer automated vision inspection and process analysis products and services
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Mission Statement
To be the World Leader in engineered on-line Sensing and Process Analysis products and services which delight customers
while applying Biblical principles of ethics.
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Our 56,000 sq ft facility houses Engineering, Manufacturing, Research, Sales & Marketing, Service, Training and Support organizations
18,000 sq ft is dedicated to technical support and new product development
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Pressco Technology Inc. is the proud owner of over 30 patented technologies
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Pressco began exporting in 1988 and has installed over 7,200 systems in 78 countries around the world
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Sales/Service Offices
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Pressco Serves Very Diverse Markets
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Pressco Markets
Closures 13%
Filling 8%
Metal Container Beverage
36%
Metal Container Food 13%
Plastic Container 16%
Other 14%
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PRODUCT/MARKET EVOLUTION
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Vision Inspection Requirements (circa 1980):
• Single manufacturing line
• 200 parts per minute
• 20/20 vision
• Inconsistent performance
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First vision inspection system ever installed in the metal container
industry
• One electronics cabinet • One inspection module • One camera • One light source • One lane • 500 parts per minute • NO REJECTER!
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• One electronics cabinet • Four inspection modules • Eight cameras • Sixteen lighting arrays • Four independent lanes • 3600 parts per minute • Extremely consistent
performance
Metal Container Market
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• High Resolution Camera • Integrated Touch Screen • Washdown Compliant (NEMA-4X) • New challenge: sloshing liquid
Filling Market
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As customers innovate, successful companies must innovate as well
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MANAGING INNOVATION CULTIVATING
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Cultivating Innovation
Right Approach
Right Environment
Right People
Right Recognition
Right Relationships
Innovation
“Rights”
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Team
Cultivating Innovation
Individual
• Meet together • Start the flow of ideas • Let everyone contribute • Get out of the way • Usually best for complex, cross
functional, system level problems
• Issue a challenge (but know who can be challenged)
• Let them ponder & experiment • Listen to their suggestions • Usually best for solving specific
market needs
Right Approach
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Cultivating Innovation
Structured Free Form
• Patterned after ISO process (PMR, Specifications, etc)
• Has it’s place (system development) • Leads to evolution rather than
revolution
• No structure • Has it’s place (solve an immediate
problem) • Leads to revolution rather than
evolution
Right Approach
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Cultivating Innovation
No bad ideas
Let everyone contribute
Be willing to listen
Be flexible Management isn’t
always right
Controlled freedom Challenge &
encourage
Break down barriers Right Environment
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Horrible image!
Not enough edges!
Not enough contrast!
Can’t be done!
Reduce the field of view
Apply dark field illumination
Rotate the image
Pre-filter the image
Apply contrast enhancements
>95% read rate
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Cluttered and haphazard
Cultivating Innovation
Successful companies need both!
Orderly and methodical
Right People
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Cultivating Innovation
Novel Does it represent a new
approach that wasn’t obvious?
Utility Can the design be
leveraged to solve other problems?
Standard Can standard equipment
be utilized? Problem Difficulty
How difficult was the problem to be solved?
Impact How important was this
problem to Pressco or the customer?
Software Algorithm
Departmental Process
System Architecture
Right Recognition
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Cluttered and chaotic
Cultivating Innovation
Right People
Orderly and methodical
Successful companies need both!
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Cultivating Innovation
Invite others to see their progress
Encourage
Follow up regularly
Know your people
and their families
Be available Show enthusiasm &
interest
MBWA Right Relationships
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RECOGNIZING GOOD AND BAD INNOVATION
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Recent Pressco Innovations INDIVIDUAL TEAM BARRIER
Optimizer™ “Management is always right”
Draw Mark Filter Problem unresolved for 20 years
Series IV-D Plus System architecture won’t support it
Reject FIFO Encoder pulse = part position
BMID (Phase 1) “We know the market”
BMID (Phase 2) Horrible image
CSE Issues Database Do things the way we’ve always done them
Pocket Correlator System architecture limitations
E Series Modules No time to do it right
icon No market need
iCAM Didn’t meet market requirements
FHCP-3X Not enough time
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Recognizing Good and Bad Innovation
• Know your market(s)
– What do they want and need?
– Be willing to listen!
• Know your product and its applications
– Does the innovation fit?
– Voice recognition software
• Know your limitations (but be careful)
– “That image is horrible”
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Cultivating Innovation
Right Approach
Right Environment
Right People
Right Recognition
Right Relationships
Innovation
“Rights”
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