What is Important for us at Aicher

Customer satisfaction: Customer orientation at all times is the basis of everything we do. Reliability, meeting delivery dates, quality of the highest standard and never promising more than we can deliver are the basis of relationships of trust with our customers. Striving after quality is consequently an essential part of our business philosophy. This is borne out by the fact that we have been granted certification several times, most recently in April 2006, in accordance with ISO TS 16949.

Technology: We shall increase our strengths to remain in the future a valued partner for our customers. In addition to state-of-the-art production equipment we place great emphasis on the ongoing training of our employees.

Enthusiasm: Creativity, ideas, innovation and performance at the highest level can only be achieved with enthusiasm. Our highly motivated employees at Aicher meet the challenges set by our customers with enthusiasm.

Commitment to our community: Aicher components are used throughout the world. We think globally but act locally. Our location at Königsheim, between the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, and Lake Constance, is a stable basis for our business activities. The fact that we take our stewardship of the environment seriously is shown by the environmental certification awarded to us.

Our works in 2006

Best cost: Awareness of target costs determines how we act within the company. An industrial company can only be competitive if it produces exactly according to tolerances, efficiently and with clear financial targets. Sensible cost management means that all activities, procedures and processes must be planned and implemented cost effectively. We review them continually to keep the processes effective and the costs low.

One more comment on pricing:

We meet requirements of our customers with carefully costed products, at the same time continually improving our processes in order to save costs.
We cannot and will not offer dumping prices.
In this respect we are of the same opinion as the English social critic John Ruskin (1819 – 1900), who wrote:

„There is almost nothing in the world that somebody can't make worse and sell a little bit cheaper, but the people who consider only the price will get their just deserts."
It is not particularly clever to pay too much, but it is even less intelligent to pay too little. If you pay too much, you lose money – and nothing else. However, if you pay too little, you will sometimes lose everything as the object you buy cannot perform the task expected of it.
It would contravene the laws of the economics to obtain high value for little money. If, on the other hand, you accept the lowest offer you should add a percentage for the risk you implicitly accept. But if you can do that you have enough money to pay for something better anyway.“