Viking uses ISO 9001:2000, Six Sigma, and Lean Kaizan in its worldwide manufacturing and assembly processes to remove waste, reduce development costs, and deliver superior products on schedule. Viking utilizes a variety of Lean building blocks, including Value Stream Mapping, Visual Controls, One Piece Flow, Team Building, Quality at the Source, Quick Changeover / Setup Reduction, Kanban / Pull Systems, Cellular Manufacturing, and Total Productive Maintenance. Viking's efforts have paid off in improved quality, customer satisfaction and cost reductions. 

Dedicated Viking foundries and manufacturing facilities utilize state-of-the-art CNC equipment to assure unmatched quality is built into every pump. Viking products also meet the applicable standards or certification requirements for ATEX, CE, DIN, BSP, JIS, ANSI, UL, and others. Viking pumps are individually produced and hand assembled by craftsmen to each application requirement for superior quality and enhanced pump/application interface.

Material Options Matched to Application

Viking's dedicated iron and alloys foundries provide pump construction materials fro cast iron to Hastelloy®. Application-specific materials of construction extend pump life significantly, while reducing maintenance and unplanned downtime, which enables increased production and a better bottom line.

Viking maintains both spectrographic and sand testing labs in each foundry. Tensile testing is performed on-site. Nodularity checks are performed on each ladle of ductile iron.