QUARTERLY TEAM BRIEFING 2007 Year End
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QUARTERLY TEAM BRIEFING
2007 Year End
How we’ve ripped cost out of our processes
Gordon BrownGlobal Database Manager, AESSEAL
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AESSEAL Group of Companies• Formed in 1979• Headquartered in Rotherham, South Yorkshire• 1200 employees• £80M T/O• 69 branches• 38 countries
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Global Technology Centre
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Product Range
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Customers• Hydrocarbon Processing• Pharmaceutical• Food Processing• Mineral Extraction• Electricity Generation• Steel Manufacture• Nuclear Industry• Water & Waste Industry• Bio-ethanol• Chemical Processing• Pulp and Paper• Defence• OEM
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Rotating Equipment
Pumps
Mixers Gearboxes
Screw feeders Electric Motors
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Product Configuration• 200 seal types• 10 material options• 4000 elastomer combinations• 100 face material combinations• 500 shaft sizes• 400,000,000,000 combinations !• + bespoke options
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Product Configuration• Modular component design
– Faces, sleeves, clamp rings• Variable component design
– Common components for seal size range– Sleeve thickness variable
• Extensive knowledge base– Equipment specifications & dimensions– Industry standards– Customer assets
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Manufacturing• Rotherham
– Volume components– Bespoke orders
• Bradford– Small batch quantities
• Derby– Seal repair
• Peterborough– Pump repair
• China– Component Seals– Faces– Castings
• India– Local market– Castings
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Manufacturing
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IT Infrastructure• UK – 11 staff
– Support– Projects
• India – 11 staff– Support– Development
• China – 3 staff• USA – 2 staff
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IT Infrastructure• Sage Line 500
– UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, China, South Africa
• Design Tools– SolidEdge, NX5, ADMiT PDM
• Production Tools– Seiki Systems, CMM, Vericut
• Microsoft• Oracle
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Projects• Design Automation
– Web page– Simple form– Engineering Knowledge
Base• Will it fit ?• Can we make it ?
– 3D model– 2D drawings
• Benefits– Virtually eliminate
Design costs– Massive increase in
Customer Service– Consistency of Design
– Experienced Designers focus on real value adding
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Projects• Carousels• Despatch automation• Live Lists• Procure 2 Pay• Auto Receipts• SFDC• ECS Repair System
• Fusion API’s• 1st project live within 1
day• Java, VB.NET
• Massively reduced development time
• Reduce support burden
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iSOP Sales Order Workstation
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iLID Live Information/Workflow
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iPIC Storage Manager
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Carousel Storage Units
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