quarterly team briefing 2007 year end
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How we’ve ripped cost out of our processes Gordon Brown Global Database Manager, AESSEAL. QUARTERLY TEAM BRIEFING 2007 Year End. AESSEAL Group of Companies. Formed in 1979 Headquartered in Rotherham, South Yorkshire 1200 employees £80M T/O 69 branches 38 countries. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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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