Case Study 1
What our customer was looking for:
- To develop a new sealing assembly for a new valve design.
What we provided:
- Material recommendations for plastic parts and samples for testing.
- Supply of development and production quantities of plastic sealing components for 4 different valve sizes.
- Subsequent outsourcing of all components in new sealing assembly.
- Improved quality and finish of outsourced metal components.
- Reusable packaging holding full component set which is taken directly to production line and used as an assembly aid into the finished product.
- 2 year fixed price supply assurance.
How our customer benefited:
- Successful development of new sealing assembly.
- Improved component quality.
- Internal assembly process and outsourcing effort eliminated.
- Reduced product stock levels.
- Improved final product assembly process.
- On time delivery >98% and 100% quality.
Case Study 2
What our customer was looking for:
- Colour-coded products for a proprietary application.
- Proprietary material formulation – difficult to copy
- Development partner.
What we provided:
- Access to raw material compounders to develop a PTFE-based formulations and colours.
- In-house processing of PTFE raw material giving process traceability and reproducibility.
- Production of semi-finished material close to finished size of components to minimize machining cost and waste.
- Prototype samples for testing and subsequent modification.
- Production quantities of 5 different sizes.
How our customer benefited:
- Proprietary grade of coloured material.
- Full traceability of process history and raw material.
- Supply and development of prototypes through to production quantities.
Case Study 3
What our customer was looking for:
- A partner to take over internal PTFE processing and plastic machining operation no longer considered strategic to the future of the business.
What we did:
- Found a new building and relocated the customer’s and our own PTFE processing operation.
- Took over the customer’s raw material stocks and all plastic semi-finished stocks.
- Provide total continuity of supply during relocation.
- Added customer service resources to handle an average of 12000 new parts and quotations a year.
- Provided material selection advice and development samples for special projects.
- Provided access to our global network of plastic manufacturers and distributors and our materials knowledge for special projects.
How our customer benefited:
- Over last 5 years, supply of 10,000 different components with on-time delivery performance of >95% and an average lead time of 2 weeks.
- Better lead times and better delivery performance than previous internal operation.
- Lower product stocks.
Case Study 4
What our customer was looking for:
- A solution to the problem of component failure in laboratory gas conditioning equipment.
- A supplier to provide long-term security of supply to replace local machine shops.
- Improved quality of all components to overcome 50% failure rate of final product assembly.
What we provided:
- A solution to the component cracking problem by sourcing material processed differently and introducing an annealing step.
- Detailed component drawings and material specifications for all plastic components.
- Manufacture of 30 plastic components and outsourcing of 20 metal and rubber components.
- Assembly of finished products and stocking of components.
- Plastic alternative to main metal component.
How our customer benefited:
- Improved product service life
- Internal assembly process and component sourcing effort were eliminated.
- 90% on-time delivery performance of different assemblies.
- Internal stock levels reduced.
- Final product assembly failure rate of <1%.
- Weight and cost saving from substitution of plastic for metal.
