Home About Us Innovation Solutions Experience Partners Management Contact Us Expert innovation powers superior outcomes MKS Innovations Home About Us Innovation Solutions Experience Partners Management Contact Us Innovation We minimize risk wherever possible, and balance this with the ability to provide time-critical, cost-effective solutions to our customers. We refer to the methodology to support these objectives as “stepwise innovation.” • Repurpose:  The first step involves reuse of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, enabling the customer to more quickly adapt to changing needs and market dynamics. • Enhance:  The second step involves developing software that integrates COTS products more efficiently into the customer’s enterprise architecture and business processes • Evolve:  The third step involves carefully leveraging existing R&D programs to repurpose or enhance research that never achieved commercialization. • Invent:  The last step involves developing new solutions based upon MKS’s creativity, experience, and expertise -- this is innovative and creative problem-solving. The steps in our approach are not necessarily followed in sequential fashion, since market dynamics may dictate that some steps be performed in parallel. Copyright © 2010-2011 MKS Innovations. All rights reserved.