So what benefits can FineCal bring to you during this task?

FineCal offer experienced Sales staff to visit your factory, tour the site and make recommendations on how our product range could save your company time and money by using alternative materials to carry out the task.  We have also been able to alter production processes with the recommendation of a different method that has reduced ongoing costs.

It is often said that ‘A Picture is Worth 1000 Words’ and a factory survey emphasises this.  Having a visual picture of your production facility can help FineCal appreciate your processes.  The survey provides us with

• a good interaction between production staff and ourselves allowing issues to be fully recognised.
• the knowledge that we need in order to help your company and perhaps to arrange for our technical supplier representatives to become involved.
• our ability to recommend products / systems that may help towards cost savings.

And all this is offered entirely FREE of CHARGE!

We have helped many customers to overcome production issues through this method. During a tour of one particular customer in conservatory manufacturing we asked why putty based materials were being used to secure glass to frames. This simple question revealed not only the susceptibility of putty bleeding in extreme weather conditions but all kinds of other problems including call outs following conservatory installation. We introduced a specialised coated foam tape which not only speeded up the production process but also made the units far more secure and eliminated expensive call outs as a result.

FineCal only uncovered this application as a result of a guided tour around their production process.

Factory tours / surveys can add value because:-

• we can look at paper trails and current areas of sourcing. 
• we  are able to consolidate the sourcing of products to one supplier reducing your administration costs. 
• we are able to offer various supply chain solutions by speaking with people involved in the production process
  so that we can manage the delivery of our stock to you minimising delay and overstocking of the product.  This can be handled as consignment stock, Vendor Managed Inventory or simply as a JIT delivery system.