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Varian Medical Systems
www.varian.com / Revenue: $3 billion / Headquarters: Palo Alto, Calif. / Employees: Approximately 7,700 / Specialty: Advanced technology and software for fighting cancer
West
varian medical systems'
strong culture helps it
retain quality employees.
A New Hope
varian medical systems improves its technology and
tightens its production. by janice hoppe-spiers
Ninety-nine percent uptime would
be a great number for any other manufacturing company to achieve with
its products, but at Varian Medical
Systems, that number is just not good
enough. The company is full of innovators who are all working towards
the same mission: to not just fight
cancer, but to beat it.
"We try to think of downtime from
a patients' perspective. Let's say a
patient has a brain tumor and they're
being treated on a Varian machine and
they have on a cranial fixation device
so their face and head are firmly at40
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tached to a table and you can't move,"
describes Robert Wood, vice president of worldwide manufacturing.
"It's natural to be nervous because
this is a big deal and you are getting
X-rays delivered to the brain, and the
machine stops working for 10 minutes during the procedure. From an
uptime perspective, it's only 10 minutes in a 24-hour day, but from the
patient's perspective, the patient was
uncomfortable, had fear and might be
questioning whether this treatment
will be effective. While we know the
patient was treated correctly, he still
was uncomfortable and had a less
than desired experience."
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company began shortly after World War
II when brothers Russell and Sigurd
Varian developed a source of strong
microwave signals that improved air
navigation and warned of potential
bombing raids. The klystron tube, a
high-frequency amplifier for generating microwaves, can be found today in radar, satellite and wideband
high-power communication, high-energy physics applications and as an
essential component of the modern
medical linear accelerator - a machine that helps clinicians target and
destroy tumors using high-energy
X-ray beams.
Varian Associates was incorporated
in 1948 with $22,000 of capital and six
full-time employees. Today, Varian
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