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Metallurgical heat treatment and testing
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Keighley Laboratories is best know for its metallurgical heat treatment and testing services, but the new Total Supply Concept it is launching at Subcon 2006 goes beyond that.
Keighley Laboratories (Stand D2) is best know for its metallurgical heat treatment and testing services, but the new Total Supply Concept it is launching at Subcon 2006 goes way beyond that Keighley's Leonard Stott says that they were constantly being asked to look at product, and growing out of that demand they are now moving into component production
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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But rather than doing it themselves they are drawing on the talents of their 1000-strong customer base and acting as a manufacturing broker.
Keighley Laboratories acts as the first point of contact for the customer and sources the manufacturing aspects of the job from appropriate suppliers.
Although it would then carry out heat treatments and testing, this is not a necessary requirement.
"We've a couple of jobs on at the moment where there is no heat treatment or testing involved," says Mr Stott, "But primarily they do come through our heat treatment or metallurgical testing side." The types of individual component cover all aspects of general engineering, a well as for specialist sectors such as pneumatics and the rail industry.
"They are value added compoments, we aren't into creating widgets.
To give an example of how our customer base comes together on a project - on one of the jobs we've got at the moment we go to one of our customers, a foundry, for the castings.
We go to another who does transport, we do the testing and the heat treatment.
Then it goes to another of our customers for machining, another one who powder coats, and then back to the transport company for delivery to the customer.
Keighly Labs do all the accounts and so on and the customer only has raise one purchase order and only gets one invoice.
It has also taken on a new engineering graduate under a Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme who brings a design capability to the process and manages the work in progress.
"A lot of the knowledge has gone out of manufacturing so companies are looking for people who do have that knowledge.
We are able to introduce new materials, new processing routes and so on that customers wouldn't otherwise have access to," concludes Mr Stott. Request a free brochure from Subcon ...
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