About IDEX

Who We Are

Who We Are

We deliver trusted solutions that serve as essential components in dynamic end markets. Great teams innovate and collaborate with speed and scale, united in expertise through 80/20 and the IDEX Operating Model.
Since our inception in 1988 with three entrepreneurial manufacturing companies, we have expanded to include over 50 businesses worldwide, unified by a shared mission to address critical needs with excellence and reliability.

Our products play a vital role across a broad spectrum of industries, and we operate within a framework designed to foster operational excellence while enabling our businesses to remain agile, customer-focused, and innovative. This approach ensures that each business maintains the entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and problem-solving expertise that form our foundation, while also benefiting from the resources, scale, and global reach of a multibillion-dollar enterprise.

United by our core IDEX Values of Trust, Team, and Excellence, and driven by a culture of collaboration and servant leadership, we continue to deliver solutions that make a meaningful difference. Our ability to integrate the strengths of independent businesses with the capabilities of a global organization is key to our ongoing success and the value we provide to stakeholders around the world.

OUR MISSION, VISION, AND VALUES

IDEX lives its mission of Trusted Solutions, Improving Lives™ in countless ways across many industries, developing and producing mission-critical components and other products that improve everyday life. Trust, Team, and Excellence: Our company values are three simple words that are known and practiced by IDEX teams around the world. We live these values every day as we seek to innovate with speed, grow agile teams, and multiply our impact by harnessing the power of our collective expertise.

THE IDEX OPERATING MODEL

The proven tools of the IDEX Operating Model are foundational to our company’s success. These fundamental tenets of how we do business help IDEX teams enhance their management efforts and operations.

1
80/20
Perhaps the most central process to our success, 80/20 reduces complexity and increases simplification, focusing resources on the things that matter most. Based on the Pareto Principle, prioritizing 80/20 accelerates profitable growth by committing resources to the highest value markets, products, and customer opportunities.
2
Organization and Talent Cycle
Part of our commitment to prioritizing people, the Organization and Talent Cycle (OTC) aligns talent to business needs and accelerates employees’ potential. A disciplined approach to connecting company strategy with action, OTC includes in-depth talent reviews with business leaders throughout the organization, assessing workforce needs and individual development goals.
3
Daily Management
A cross-functional daily process for managing the prioritization of critical success factors to effectively execute the order-to-cash process, Daily Management provides the foundation for continuous improvement.
4
Monthly Business Review
A monthly review of individual and product line team scorecards focused on progress toward objectives helps our team apply problem-solving tools to drive business results.
5
Goal Development
A five-step thought process that links strategy and tactics through creation of a sustainable process, this systematic approach to managing change in critical business processes leads to breakthrough performance.
The Power of OBS

A core group of experts comprise the IDEX Office of Business Services (OBS), serving the company’s business units around the world to help them operate at the highest levels of efficiency.

OBS professionals serve as role models, demonstrating our company values and proven business practices to empower great teams across IDEX to achieve excellence. The OBS team partners with IDEX leadership teams, often at the manufacturing plant level, using our operating model to deliver sustainable, breakthrough results for our customers, employees, and shareholders.

Teams around the world focus on what matters most by using customized 80/20 analysis tools and Kaizen-based continuous improvement principles, including rapid improvement events (RIEs). Through these and other core principles for excellence, OBS experts help IDEX business teams be their very best.

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