planning and preparation of projects

Project Preparation

Once Sales has sold a product, our Project Preparation team comes into action. They are involved in the initial phase of the construction of a machine and an important link between various departments including Purchase & Supply Chain and Assembly & Production. Team Project Preparation ensures that a machine is assembled on time – with all the right parts – and transported to the customer within the agreed time. A very important task!

Once the Sales department has sold a project, an order description arrives at the Project Preparation department, which the various disciplines within the department - Production Planning, Project Engineering and Work Preparation - get to work on. The planners put the customer project into our planning tool Rob-Ex and ensure that all departments involved know when what is to be delivered. In addition to the central planning of a customer project, team Planning also deals with Resource and Material planning; the availability of people, resources and materials. Our Project Engineers are technically responsible for a project. They use the information they receive from Sales to create a Layout, an electrical schematic and a software configuration.

The Assembly & Production departments need this information to make the electrical cabinets, machines and transport systems. As a Project Engineer, you put the required materials for the project into SAP so that the Purchase & Supply Chain department can purchase the right materials. Team Project Preparation translates the ideas of the Project Engineers into practice; the 'what' is conceived, and they devise the 'how'. To this end, they create an order structure and determine the sequence of work, so that it is clear how the project will be executed. The various disciplines of the Project Preparation Department fit together seamlessly and together they are an important link in the customer project.

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Life at Voortman

TEAM

The Project Preparation department is a young, close-knit club where motivation and job satisfaction go hand in hand. They put their shoulders to the wheel together and help each other when and where necessary. Although the tasks within the department differ from each other and each team member is a specialist in his own field, there is a strong team spirit. They relax during a game of table tennis and the always enjoyable Friday afternoon drinks. Because team development is just as important as the development of the individual, they regularly organize team outings to get to know each other even better.

PROJECT PREPARATION:
AN INDISPENSABLE ELEMENT IN OUR PROJECTS

THE LARGEST AUTOMATED VOORTMAN SYSTEM EVER

J&D Pierce Contracts Ltd. is a large structural steel fabricator based in Glengarnock, United Kingdom. Pierce invested in the largest European fully automated Voortman system. Due to the size of this immense project, the system was on forehand determined and designed based on real-time simulations.

Derek Pierce, CEO van J&D Pierce, explains: “I did expect quit a few glitches with the total automation and the load balancing and there were very few problems which I was incredibly impressed with. The system is a large system and it has a tremendous amount of automation and they all worked almost perfectly first time which I was incredibly impressed with. We can do 200 tonnes per day without any issue at all. The facility is more than capable of doing way over 1.000 tonnes per week."

Want to know more? Watch the testimonial of J&D Pierce.

THE JOURNEY TOWARDS EFFICIENCY

Ian Cahill, managing director of Cahill Structures, based in England, is a testament to the transformative power of the right machinery in structural steel fabrication. "The industry we're in is a very competitive industry. Everything's about being efficient."

In the pursuit of efficiency, Cahill found himself on a quest for quality machinery to reduce man-hours and increase production capacity. This led him to Voortman. With Voortman's machinery, Cahill Structures has seen a significant reduction in man-hours by an average of 25 to 30% per ton. Cahill states, "We can run both machines load and unload and start the steel with two people." The company now handles projects well in excess of £7 million, a far cry from their early days of £50,000 projects. “The machine can do the work of five or six men running a day.”

Curious? Discover the story of Cahill Structures.