How to close a simple production line in one day
The most expensive breakdown in production is the one that stopped the line. A part costs several thousand rubles, and a day of downtime costs hundreds of thousands. Metalhelp Company - https://metalhelp.ru He is engaged in urgent metalworking and makes the manufacture and repair of parts according to drawings and samples for enterprises in Moscow and the Moscow region.
The problem is that the market is not adapted to urgency. When the line is stopped and a worn shaft or a broken gear needs to be replaced, large enterprises call a period of two to three months and do not shift it for any additional payment. Their loading is scheduled for a series, and a single detail breaks the schedule.
Why did this workshop appear?
Metalhelp grew out of its own problem. The founders had an operating production facility where consumable parts were constantly wearing out. One story was repeated every time. The application went to the side, the response came in two or three months, and the site was standing. Neither the additional payment nor the negotiations moved the deadline.
In June 2019, we decided not to wait for the market, but to assemble our base. We started with milling and turning machines for our own needs, then opened a workshop for external customers. That is why deadlines are considered the main parameter of the order here, and not a pleasant addition to it.
From the drawing to the finished part on one site
Most often, the customer does not have a drawing. There is a broken part removed from imported equipment that has not been supplied for a long time. Five design engineers with higher technical education (among their universities are Bauman Moscow State Technical University and RTU MIREA) take measurements from the sample and draw up a full-fledged drawing.
They work the same way with a worn part. The nominal dimensions are restored according to the mating parts of the assembly, bearings, bushings, coupling halves and shaft seats. Where the geometry is complex and manual measurement is unreliable, 3D scanning is used. The documentation is sent in DXF, DWG, STEP and PDF, and the files remain with the customer. You can work with them in any workshop, not just here.
Then the part goes to work on the same site, without intermediaries and subcontracting. The catalog includes 19 services: turning and milling, laser and electroerosion cutting, welding, bending of sheet metal, rolling, stamping, drilling, hardening, painting, laser cleaning. Boring and planing are performed on turning and milling equipment.
The nomenclature is common for repair metalworking. Most often these are gears and sprockets, shafts, axles and rods, pulleys, rollers and bushings, flanges, fasteners, brackets and knives. They work with stainless and structural steel, aluminum, titanium, bronze and brass.
A fleet of more than 50 pieces of equipment
The ability to take an urgent order is not based on desire,
