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How we innovate at TRL

WHAT WE DO

Touchstone has:

  • Developed hundreds of million dollars worth of products in the marketplace today.
  • Solved thousands of manufacturing problems.
  • Performed millions of tests for thousands of companies from coal mines to the Space Shuttle.

HOW DO WE DO WHAT WE DO:

Breadth of Experiences:

  • Starting more than one project per day from a wide array of industries provides Touchstone personnel a unique and ever-growing tool box of solutions.

Shared Management:

  • Individual authority derives more from expertise than organization position.
  • Management is shared by all members of the organization.
  • What matters is not ones assigned “turf”, but the outcomes of customer satisfaction.
  • Initiative is expected.
  • Intense focus on being highly responsive, flexible, cost-effective.

Atmosphere:

  • Touchstone is a “high-velocity” environment where change and improvement are the norm.
  • Every employee is urged to think outside the boxes and lines.
  • Communication moves quickly through this seamless organization.
  • Everyone at Touchstone sees the customer not as an abstraction, but a real person with specific needs.

Facilities:

  • Touchstone has facilities to test, design and build almost anything.


Doing the Right Work:

  • The number one failure in R&D is a lack of prioritization. At Touchstone this is Job 1.

 

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