Monthly Archives: August 2011

Pharmaceutical filling line equipment

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Our involvement began when the filling line kept failing after commissioning. Our client was losing sales and incurring in-house engineering costs for time expended when the supplier should have been fulfilling their warranty obligations. When we demanded an on-site presence from the supplier (in England), in our client’s factory (not in England), the supplier asked […]

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Furniture manufacturing

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

This project involved the replacement of an old paint spray booth, now requiring state of the art equipment. The importance of this project was our client unable to compete in their market with other manufacturers who were achieving super high gloss finishing on their products. Unsurprisingly, retailers had stopped ordering our client’s products. An in-house […]

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Asian/African supply market for transportation engineering parts and assemblies

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

This research was undertaken for a European engineering group, engaged in the transportation sector. They were losing business in Asia because they had no local presence to off-set expenditure in the local market. Shortly after commencing the research our client extended the brief to include Southern Africa, India and Eastern Europe. This research included a […]

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Specialised design/research facilities

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

This research was undertaken for a highly specialised engineering company, engaged in the shipbuilding industry. On one major contract they required design/research facilities that were capable of supporting innovative design solutions for a modern fleet of vessels. The in-house capability lacked adequate resources, investment in the latest IT design software and the flexibility to respond […]

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