Operations

Operations

World Leader in Photonics Manufacturing

Our personnel design and manufacture technically challenging photonic solutions for zero failure in mission critical applications.

Every day over 7,500 dedicated Excelitas employees across ten countries strive to be the safest, most exacting, efficient and utmost socially responsible factory network in the world. With a deep sense of pride and embraced responsibility, we create, manufacture and distribute sophisticated and technically challenging photonic solutions for zero-failure in mission-critical applications.

Leveraging over 140 years of photonics expertise and experience, we foster collaboration and performance geographically and across our electro-mechanical and electro-optical competence clusters. Serving the most demanding OEMs & markets requires Excelitas to have exceptional quality measured as <100 dppm, predictable delivery at >90% and a ferocity for productivity.  

Quality Assurance

Rigorous Quality Assurance

Cleanroom quality data review

Excelitas prides itself as a world-class manufacturing network providing highly engineered photonic solutions for applications that demand the highest levels of quality and performance. Our customized solutions serve OEMs who demand 100% right-the-first time in critical applications that save lives, keep us secure and impact our health and well being. Our Quality Management System is built upon multi-industry certification standards combined with extensive global government regulatory experience ranging from FDA-regulated medical systems to multi-jurisdictional Defense & Aerospace technologies.

Quality is built into our products right from the start of our initial design and development process all the way through to the product realization and socially responsible end-of-life.  We rigorously apply industry standard best practices such as APQP, PPAP, IQ/OQ/PQ, data sciences, process capability analysis combined with advanced metrology.

 

Every Excelitas employee understands the mission critical nature of our customers' applications and products and embraces the importance of absolute quality as our highest priority

Excelitas Quality Framework:

  • Every Excelitas employee understands the mission critical nature of our customers' applications and products and embraces the importance of absolute quality as our highest priority
  • Certified QMS to ISO9001:2015, AS9100D, ISO13485:2016, IATF16949, FDA QSR
  • We employ more than 350 experienced, full-time quality professionals globally
  • We maintain a field-proven track record of stringent quality performance <100 dppm
Supply Chain and Logistics

Globally Integrated Supply Network

Excelitas' global partner network connectivity accelerates the innovation and delivery velocity to rapidly respond to the needs of our customers and markets.  Leveraging an extensive supply network of over 5,000 suppliers in 30 countries, enables superior localization, productivity, agility and access to technology for the benefit of our customers. 

 

Excelitas requires all of our suppliers, vendors and partners to conduct business that respects the values, ethics, cultures and environments in which they operate

 

At Excelitas, we feel very strongly that our Supply Chain Partners must demonstrate values that are both commercially and ethically rooted.  We are committed to our customers and communities that we will conduct ourselves at all times in accordance to all local, state, federal and country regulations, laws and leading industry practices. Excelitas requires all of our suppliers, vendors and partners to conduct business that respects the values, ethics, cultures and environments in which they operate.  Robust audit processes help develop our supply base and ensure compliance to the Excelitas value system.

 

Excelitas Supply Network Advantage:

  • Sourcing capability in 9 countries with 100 professionals in North America, Europe and Asia 
  • Over 10 year average supplier business relationship
  • Deep commodity knowledge opens up new channels of supply and bolsters risk management
  • Robust processes enhanced with advanced analytical tools drives superior performance 
Certifications and Documentation

Excelitas has an expansive network of ISO-certified design and manufacturing facilities across the Americas, Europe and Asia. We maintain rigorous adherence to a wide variety of regulatory, quality, materials, process and safety standards to assure our customers of enduring and repeatable consistency, precision and reliability.

Visit our Locations Pages for operational details of each of our 32 facilities and to access documentation of our many certifications and qualifications of compliance to stringent industry standards.