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QUARTERLY TEAM BRIEFING

2007 Year End

How we’ve ripped cost out of our processes

Gordon BrownGlobal Database Manager, AESSEAL



AESSEAL Group of Companies• Formed in 1979• Headquartered in Rotherham, South Yorkshire• 1200 employees• £80M T/O• 69 branches• 38 countries



Global Technology Centre



Product Range



Customers• Hydrocarbon Processing• Pharmaceutical• Food Processing• Mineral Extraction• Electricity Generation• Steel Manufacture• Nuclear Industry• Water & Waste Industry• Bio-ethanol• Chemical Processing• Pulp and Paper• Defence• OEM



Rotating Equipment

Pumps

Mixers Gearboxes

Screw feeders Electric Motors



Product Configuration• 200 seal types• 10 material options• 4000 elastomer combinations• 100 face material combinations• 500 shaft sizes• 400,000,000,000 combinations !• + bespoke options



Product Configuration• Modular component design

– Faces, sleeves, clamp rings• Variable component design

– Common components for seal size range– Sleeve thickness variable

• Extensive knowledge base– Equipment specifications & dimensions– Industry standards– Customer assets



Manufacturing• Rotherham

– Volume components– Bespoke orders

• Bradford– Small batch quantities

• Derby– Seal repair

• Peterborough– Pump repair

• China– Component Seals– Faces– Castings

• India– Local market– Castings



Manufacturing



IT Infrastructure• UK – 11 staff

– Support– Projects

• India – 11 staff– Support– Development

• China – 3 staff• USA – 2 staff



IT Infrastructure• Sage Line 500

– UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, China, South Africa

• Design Tools– SolidEdge, NX5, ADMiT PDM

• Production Tools– Seiki Systems, CMM, Vericut

• Microsoft• Oracle



Projects• Design Automation

– Web page– Simple form– Engineering Knowledge

Base• Will it fit ?• Can we make it ?

– 3D model– 2D drawings

• Benefits– Virtually eliminate

Design costs– Massive increase in

Customer Service– Consistency of Design

– Experienced Designers focus on real value adding





Projects• Carousels• Despatch automation• Live Lists• Procure 2 Pay• Auto Receipts• SFDC• ECS Repair System

• Fusion API’s• 1st project live within 1

day• Java, VB.NET

• Massively reduced development time

• Reduce support burden



iSOP Sales Order Workstation



iLID Live Information/Workflow



iPIC Storage Manager



Carousel Storage Units



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