Anderson-Negele aligns precision manufacturing, process insight, and digital tools to serve regulated industries
Anderson-Negele manufactures hygienic process instrumentation for regulated production environments. Founded in the 1930s, the company expanded from its engineering roots into a global supplier serving food, beverage, dairy, brewing, pharmaceutical, and life sciences manufacturers. Today, Anderson-Negele operates manufacturing sites in the United States and Europe, supporting customers whose production processes must meet the demands of regulatory oversight.
Lindsay Ramirez, Business President and transformational executive leader at Anderson-Negele, frames its history in terms of the continuity of customer engagement and trust rather than scale. “We’ve been in the business for over 90 years,” Lindsay says. “That’s only possible if you’re innovating, bringing leading solutions to the market and earning customer trust by showing up as a consistently great partner.”
Those trusted partnerships center on process measurement and performance insights where product safety, regulatory compliance, and repeatability intersect. Anderson-Negele’s instrumentation is installed directly into production lines, tanks, and vessels, where measurement accuracy influences both operational efficiency and compliance outcomes. “Our sensors go into process environments, and they help ensure the safety of production,” Lindsay shares. “They make sure that the production that’s happening is compliant with regulations and that the resulting products are safe for people to use.”
Anderson-Negele’s role extends beyond delivering components to providing deep application expertise. By partnering closely with integrators from system design through installation and operation, the company’s instrumentation functions as a core element of control, safety, and performance – not just a peripheral input.
The hygienic product portfolio focuses on process-measurement technologies for clean, validated environments. The business also caters to industrial environments with its Bindicator and Kistler-Morse portfolios. Core offerings for hygienic environments include level, pressure, and flow sensors, as well as turbidity and temperature instrumentation designed for CIP and SIP cycles. Core offerings for the industrial environment include point level, continuous level, high-accuracy weighing, and solids inventory measurement.
For the hygienic portfolio, design decisions prioritize sanitary performance from initial engineering to material selection. “We don’t take a sensor made for a different environment and tweak it for hygienic use,” Lindsay says. “Our products are hygienic from the ground up to meet customers’ unique needs.”
The approach meets regulatory expectations related to food safety and pharmaceutical manufacturing. Precision measurement drives system performance. “For us, precision is not just a buzzword,” Lindsay confirms. “It’s the foundation of what we do. We believe that precision matters because we serve industries where getting it right every time matters.”
Instrumentation accuracy affects batch outcomes, audit readiness, and process control in regulated production. “We support industries where there’s no room for error,” she declares. “We’re really helping some of the world’s most regulated customers manufacture a product that consumers can trust.”
To complement its overall service offering, Anderson-Negele engages customers at the process level. “We don’t just give them a sensor,” Lindsay says. “We actually get in there and help them optimize their process. Our expertise in making these systems function to our customers’ requirements is really unmatched.”
Building a Company for the Future
In 2025, Anderson-Negele joined Ralliant, a group of technology businesses centered on precision test and measurement and sensor and safety systems. This integration created a global company with a portfolio of operating companies all connected by precision products and solutions and through a shared operating framework, the Ralliant Business System.
Ralliant’s business system provides a structure for continuous improvement, innovation, and growth across its operating companies. “That’s really how we power problem solving, lean transformations, innovation, and profitable growth,” Lindsay states.
The system provides a shared language and set of tools that support manufacturing execution, leadership routines, and operational performance while allowing each business to maintain autonomy. “It’s great to have access to a community of people who are so talented, with best practices that they are itching to share,” Lindsay says. “We lifted some of those best practices and applied them to manufacturing and saw tremendous benefit.”
Knowledge exchange moves in both directions. “We share back as well, places where we’re strong as a business,” Lindsay says. The exchange supports alignment across operating companies without centralizing product or customer decisions.
Within its own operations, Anderson-Negele has expanded lean manufacturing practices beyond isolated improvement events. It embedded daily management routines to reinforce accountability and process visibility.
“We’ve been on a journey over the past year to elevate our lean practices,” Lindsay explains. The shift includes visual management systems and tiered daily stand-ups that connect production teams with leadership, while sustained follow-up ensures actions “remain owned and tracked.” Supply chain changes, including Kanban resizing, support production scalability so materials flow in line with demand.
Kaizen activity builds on the foundation: “The Kaizens become these bursts of opportunity,” Lindsay highlights, describing how the structured efforts turn identified issues into targeted improvements.
A recent Shin Kaizen focused on high-impact manufacturing cells, where teams reconfigured layouts to improve productivity and champion quality. “They redesigned those manufacturing cells using one-piece flow, standard work, and point of use material,” Lindsay notes. The changes improved both productivity and process stability. Quality outcomes remain central: “Better flow in the cell actually drives better quality,” she adds. “Reducing variation allows you to catch a potential concern earlier, which makes it easier and cheaper to fix.”
Digital tools increasingly support Anderson-Negele’s internal operations and customer interfaces. The company has begun deploying generative AI across multiple functions, including manufacturing documentation and training. “We’ve got some early investments in generative AI, and learned a few lessons along the way,” she shares. “This is an initiative we’re championing from the top down, and we’re also encouraging the grassroots AI initiatives of our very talented team.”
The efforts align with product development planned for 2026. “We have a couple of exciting new product introductions coming up,” Lindsay says. “One is a brand-new technology, and the other is an offering in one of the industry’s most important product categories.
“We are building a business that can adapt, innovate, and perform consistently over time,” Lindsay concludes. “This is an exciting moment for the organization. We have clarity on where we are going, discipline in how we execute, and a strong team committed to winning together.”