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“The catalogue really simplifies everyday tasks.”
According to Steudter, the Misumi
catalogue beats competitors in another area as well: it includes the prices and delivery times as well as volume discounts for each product – great for reliable planning. This is an important factor for VWH
whose strategy is to support its customers by providing low-cost-manufacturing concepts.
Meeting the demands
Fig. 2. Assembly system for locking systems: Using a system supplier considerably reduces the development and design process for complex machines.
treatments. This process took us up to four weeks. Misumi’s delivery is significantly faster. Stock items are available in one to two days; others in six to eight days. Considering the permanent time pressure in our
business, this is a major advantage,” says Steudter. It also has a dramatic effect on costs. For VWH, the costs for in-house produced parts can be as much as E300 to 600 per piece. They can now order those components from Misumi for just E50. To select the mechanical parts implemented in VWH machines, Johannes Steudter uses the Misumi catalogue:
The very nature of special purpose or assembly machinery is a commercial challenge: the high number of different solutions does not support the design and manufacture of low cost and short time- to-market equipment. Unique machines are the rule rather than two or more identical systems.
In addition to the need for an efficient and cost effective procurement of mechanical components with fast delivery times, another point which could cause headache is that some parts are only needed in very small volumes. The Misumi concept resolves this by imposing no minimum order quantities or minimum order values. n
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Stefan Pulver is with MISUMI Europa GmbH, Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany.
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Fig. 3. The 2009 Misumo Catalogue Mechanical Components Assembly Automation is now available.
Fig. 4. Misumi’s product range sets it miles apart from the conventional spectrum available in the German market.
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