Watts Water Technologies deploys Lean Six Sigma for process improvement and operational efficiency, across a consolidating manufacturing footprint. ...
... "We are committed to reducing our manufacturing and operating costs through a combination of manufacturing in lower-cost countries, using Lean Six Sigma to drive continuous improvement across all key processes, and consolidating our diverse manufacturing operations in North America, Europe and China. We have acquired a number of manufacturing facilities in lower-cost regions such as China, Bulgaria and Tunisia. In 2007, we announced a global restructuring plan to reduce our manufacturing footprint in order to reduce our costs and to realize additional operating efficiencies. In February 2009, we announced an additional plan to consolidate manufacturing in North America and China." ...
Via Watts Water Technologies:
2008 Annual Report (PDF) 
Labels: consolidation, geographic-expansion, lean-six-sigma, manufacturing-footprint, operational-efficiency, restructuring, watts-water-tech