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News Release from: The Tube and Bracket Company
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Handling, storage firms expands sales
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The Tube and Bracket Company has expanded its sales and support team to strengthen its ability to deliver highly effective handling, storage and order picking solutions.
The Tube and Bracket Company has expanded its sales and support team to strengthen its ability to deliver highly effective handling, storage and order picking solutions Phil Jenkins has joined the company to fill a new role of contracts manager to liaise with major accounts customers and provide support for their continuous business improvement programmes using The Tube and Bracket Company's range of modular LeanTek lean manufacturing storage and handling products
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 4 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Rachel Burke has joined as a sales consultant and will concentrate on customers who want to improve their lineside and warehouse handling and storage productivity using lean techniques.
"Phil has extensive experience and expertise working with manufacturers to improve their business operations," said Nick Tyler, managing director of the Tube and Bracket Company.
"Rachel has worked with numerous companies to help them implement highly effective solutions to their production storage and handling requirements.
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Live storage system is modular
Modular live storage system supports rapid implementation and reconfiguration, allowing new or temporary facilities to be built quickly and adapted easily.
Trollies and carts configured as needed
A wide range of standard tubular components, brackets, wheels and accessories is utilised to build carts and trolleys that can be adapted, reconfigured and rebuilt whenever required.
They will add to our existing capabilities and enable us to provide new insight for customers across a range of sectors." With more than twenty years of experience in the automotive manufacturing and engineering sectors, Jenkins has worked with a number of leading organisations.
Most recently he undertook a series of projects at Jaguar to implement improved logistics operations based around lean manufacturing concepts.
Burke joins The Tube and Bracket Company from a competitor where she was responsible for implementing handling and solutions based around modular components.
The modular LeanTek system comprises coated steel piping, joints and fixtures that enable manufacturers to build live storage, carts, trolleys and ergonomic workstations matched to their business and process requirements.
Manufacturers can optimise handling and storage to support the lean manufacturing and Kaizen concepts.
They can reduce and optimise the length of the production line to minimise costs and improve productivity with enhanced ergonomics.
The modular component nature of the product also allows easy and rapid configuration and rebuild of the work area to suit changing operational requirements.
This results in low cost of implementation and ownership.
* About The Tube and Bracket Company - The Tube and Bracket Company provides lean manufacturing solutions that help deliver Kaizen-based continuous performance improvement to customers in manufacturing, engineering and production.
Its modular LeanTek system comprises coated steel piping, joints and fixtures that can be assembled into a variety of solutions including live storage, carts, trolleys and ergonomic workstations for use in Kanban and first-in-first-out stock management and throughout the manufacturing process.
These can be modified or reconfigured quickly and easily to meet process change.
The company offers a complete range of consultancy, project management, design, build and component supply services.
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