MADE IN ITALY
Lean and flexible: the SARIV way
For some companies getting to grips with lean principles in their manufacturing and distribution is a long, challenging road. For a few, lean management is simply in the DNA. SARIV is one of the few: managing its rivet manufacturing and distribution operations in an instinctively tight, focused way that responds effectively and flexibly to ever more specific customer demands.
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ith its head office and main manufacturing facility just outside the historic walls of Cittadella, 30 kilometres north of Padova, SARIV has been producing rivets since 1990. For the last eight years
its comprehensive range of blind rivets and blind rivet nuts has largely emanated from a modern, highly productive factory, which reflects a far-sighted vision of the value of continuous and highly focused investment. Efficient modern cold headers are all installed with process
monitors as are the high-speed nail machines. The principle is clear: avoid producing out of specification products and the direct cost of wastage and indirect and even more important costs of customer dissatisfaction are eliminated. To meet special quality requirements and provide assurance for products destined for the automotive sector SARIV has an internal laboratory and has recently invested in new inspection equipment. For managing director, Nicola Sartore, these investments have been critical steps in ensuring SARIV can effectively respond to the ever growing customer requirement for ‘zero-defect’ parts used in automated fastening installation lines. Mandrels and rivets are combined on a bank of specially
designed assembly machines. In the last two years, two brand new assembling machines have been installed to improve productivity. “Amongst the wide range of rivets produced on these machines,” says Nicola Sartore, “are customer specific high-strength blind rivets in A4 stainless steel – a technical achievement that we believe is unique to SARIV and which clearly demonstrates our responsiveness and flexibility in developing a solution to precisely meet the customer’s requirements.” Washing is automated and heat treatment carried out in-house
on two lines. SARIV also has its own plant for standard zinc coatings. “These facilities ensure,” explains Nicola, “that we are able to exercise direct quality control over two critical processes.” Packaging is also automated – on two lines that form, fill
and label SARIV’s distinctive green boxes, before they are palletised and stored in a 99 metre long, 19 metre high automatic warehouse housing more than 5,000 pallets. SARIV also produces and fills customised boxes and labels for some of the leading, high-volume fastener distributors in Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe. That production capability now extends into logistics integration with these major customers, an aspect of the SARIV business that is set to becoming increasingly important in the coming years. By the end of 2012 SARIV’s capability to supply small box and bulk packs in customer livery will be further extended by the installation of an automatic packaging machine for customised blister packs. At heart this is a tightly managed operation, impressive for its unwavering focus on eliminating waste and maximising productivity and consistency of quality. In 2005 SARIV established its first production facility outside
Italy. Its plant in the Czech Republic produces plain rivets and turned parts for several applications; including for stair structures, heating systems and for furniture producers. Today, more than 80 percent of its output is parts specific to customer drawings. The commercial faces of the company are familiar from many
trade exhibitions across Europe. Nicola Sartore, and alongside his father and sales manager, are seldom short of a smile but always focused ambassadors for SARIV – epitomising the company’s incisive command of the important things in business and relationships. SARIV’s international presence, though, also has a far more physical and practical form in the shape of
SARIV Italy - Galvanising & washing department
64 Fastener + Fixing Magazine • Issue 76 July 2012
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