Our Philosophy
As a family-owned company with a legacy spanning over 100 years, iwis stands for sustainable, responsible business practices — towards our customers, employees, and the environment. Our corporate culture is deeply rooted in teamwork, innovation, and precision engineering.
We empower our employees to take ownership, promote continuous learning, and foster an open exchange of ideas. This environment creates innovative solutions that set new standards today and for the future.
With a global presence and a pioneering technological spirit, we are dedicated daily to making motion more efficient, safer, and more sustainable. Our clear focus on individual customer needs drives us to deliver tailored, high-performance drive systems and smart solutions worldwide.
We are forward thinkers!
10 Principles for Those Who Strive Forward
Company founder Johann Baptist Winklhofer (1859–1949) formulated his “Ten Commandments for Forward Thinkers” as early as 1895 — a philosophy that still drives us today: We want to keep moving, keep evolving, and continue striving forward.
The enduring principles set by our founder remain the foundation of our corporate philosophy and the basis of our guiding values.
Our Guiding Principles
Our guiding principles provide the framework, but it is the motivation of our employees that drives our company forward.
At iwis, we empower our employees with a high degree of personal responsibility, which comes with the commitment to deliver excellent performance.
This understanding, combined with the expertise and dedication of our workforce, has brought us to where we are today.
A brief statement on our corporate culture from our CEO, Johannes Winklhofer
Corporate Guiding Principles
Our corporate mission statement describes the fundamental beliefs, the mission and the vision of iwis. It thus forms the basis for a clear positioning in the marke
Management Guiding Principles
The day-to-day working relationships at iwis is defined by the management and staff philosophy. These set our standards, our attitude and the framework for our daily cooperation.
Staff Guiding Principles
The staff philosophy describes the rules of cooperation and the company's claim to health and ethics of the individual.
Open Dialogue
At iwis, engaged and satisfied employees are of utmost importance. To promote open communication, we regularly conduct employee satisfaction surveys and feedback sessions with management.
Our ideas management system was implemented to capture and encourage improvement suggestions. It has since become an integral part of our company culture. Employees are invited and encouraged to submit ideas for enhancing their daily work, optimizing services, processes, and more.
This system is governed by clearly defined principles and guidelines, coordinated centrally, and all progress on implementation is carefully tracked.
Industrial Health and Safety
Here at iwis, we take a holistic view of industrial health and safety. All sections of the company work together with their assigned safety officers to ensure the safety of the employees.
The statistics clearly reflect the benefits of this close collaboration: industrial accident rates at iwis have been below the industry average year after year.
However, every single accident is one too many! iwis has set itself the ambitious goal of keeping the accident rate low in the long term.
Health Management
Our health management is a systematic, holistic process that embraces all levels of the company – from top management to the individual employee. Our health management focuses strongly on the active promotion of our employees’ health, raising their awareness in health matters and giving them comprehensive information about risk factors.
Other important key elements
- Promoting health and primary preventive measures e.g. exercise and stress-management programmes, bowel cancer screening
- Regular health days
Work-life Balance
We want to enable our employees to reconcile private goals and professional requirements in every phase of their lives.
This includes providing not only flexible working hours models, but also various programmes for company pension schemes, childcare at our own company kindergarten and crèche, social counselling and a number of discounts and other benefits for employees.
Ensuring the compatibility of career and family has been an integral part of iwis corporate and personnel policy for decades.
Social Responsibility
The motivation of our employees is the driving force behind iwis. Only our people can bring our products and services to life. Mutual respect combined with open dialogue is essential to us for building trustful and effective collaboration.
These values not only shape our corporate culture but are also firmly embedded in our company’s guiding principles. Further key aspects at iwis include continuous professional development, occupational safety, health management, and work-life balance. Because only when our employees thrive can we foster important innovations and secure our sustainable success.
Our workforce forms the foundation of our competitive advantage. Our success depends entirely on the strength of our team. That’s why the development of our employees is a top priority, pursued with the same rigor and dedication as we apply to the development of innovative products and services. We invest in developing people worldwide and at every level.
Peak performance through passion. A holistic approach.