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General machining
News Release from: Premier Deep Hole Drilling | Subject: Prodman 4
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 February 2005
Effective production control improves
service
The Prodman 4 production control system is used to manage every contract and every workpiece that travels through the shopfloor at Premier Deep Hole Drilling, providing an integrated view.
"Successful sub-contracting depends just as much on utilising the correct management processes as it does on having suitable machining capacity." So says Stuart Grant, managing director of Premier Deep Hole Drilling of St Albans Drilling "That demands having in place not only suitable production capability to enable workpieces to be manufactured but, equally important, it also means implementing production control technology to effectively monitor and record the capability of the entire manufacturing process - extending from material traceability through to certificates of conformity
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"How many companies can at the touch of a button, provide complete histories and process paths for every component produced, as well as supply copy documents when requested?," he asks.
Premier can, courtesy of the Prodman 4 production control system.
This is used to manage every contract and every workpiece that travels throughout the shopfloor providing management with an integrated view of estimates and quotes through to sales and purchase orders, stock control, route card and planning, works orders/job cards, bills of materials, scheduling and quality control.
The system gives Stuart Grant and his managers complete visibility of every job.
With key accounts in the aerospace, oil and gas, motor sport, medical and hydraulics sectors, for example, BS EN ISO 9002-accredited Premier has established its reputation primarily on the provision of deep hole drilled and honed components producing holes up to 3,000 mm deep and ground to one micron tolerances or honed to < 0.1 Ra.
Coupled with its willingness to take on jobs and materials that other companies have shied away from, Premier is today complementing these core skills with a concerted move towards offering value-added machining, often on the same workpieces.
Sitting alongside its impressive portfolio of 29 gun and ejector drilling machines for holes from 2.5 mm diameter by 3,000 mm deep and 13 honing machines for bores from 2.5 mm to 150 mm diameter are CNC turning (up to six-axis) and milling (four-axis) machines plus surface and cylindrical grinding technology.
"Successful sub-contracting is all about providing the customer with exactly what is required, when it is required," he adds.
"We certainly have both the machines and the IT infrastructure to do just that.".
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