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Much more than just locks and hinges – FA Parkes is a one stop shop for advanced locking solutions
A Parkes stands for reliance, qual- ity and innovation, with over 40 years supplying the enclo- sure industry, motor body builders and a wide variety of businesses with technical solutions. It has the knowledge and exper- tise to ensure that cus- tomers receive the level of support expected today. Constant investment in tech- nology for both business opera- tions and products has seen the company grow and engage with new and emerging innovations to enable it to provide advanced technical solutions to its customers. Proud to be a family business, the company maintains traditional values of friendly customer support with modern forward thinking man- agement and cutting edge business systems. Having a team with a wide spread of skills and experience has ensured that it truly can maintain these traditional values whilst grow- ing in terms of business, capabilities and knowledge. FA Parkes is a formidable force in this industry and should be one of your main allies in the forward progress of your business.
Partners
Key partnerships include Stabilus, Lowe and Fletcher, Dirak, WBH and Pinet. Stabilus – your expert for gas struts, dampers and electromechanical drives Lowe and Fletcher – premier lock manufacturer, specialising in bespoke customer solutions. DIRAK – designer, manufacturer and innovator of latching, locking, gasket and hinging systems. Weston Body Hardware – provides complete solutions for access control applications. Pinet – designs and manufactures hinges and hardware for industrial applications.
By closely working with these market leaders, FA Parkes has the diverse prod- uct knowledge to provide application support for inno- vative solutions around the enclosure.
Staying aligned with emerging developments ensures customers can gain
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benefits from multiple technologies from just one source – meaning FA Parkes is a ‘one stop shop’ .
Using the products it sells, FA Parkes offers full design and modification services for most applications
Engineering capabilities FA Parkes has been designing its own products for specific and niche markets for over 40 years, and offers full design and modification services for most applications using products it sells. Its lean manufacturing facil- ity can provide rapid set up and changeover to suit a wide range of manufacturing and assembly require- ments at competitive rates. The company’s workshop is fitted with both machining and assembly facilities, enabling it to provide extremely cost effective solutions from one off prototypes to high volume production.
The assembly areas are quickly con- figured to new activities on demand with output scaleable on request. The Machine shop features fully automatic machining centres capable of running ‘lights out’, providing 24/7 production of machined parts for the most demanding needs.
Warehouse systems
With its team of experts, FA Parkes can provide
application support
The company has recently expanded its warehousing capability as well as re-organising its existing warehouse, enabling faster turnaround of orders on critical parts as well as simplifying its B2B KanBan commitment services. Taking an elastic approach to ware- housing requirement means customers don’t have to worry about delivery schedules. This is all managed by one of the most advanced ERP systems available today, meaning that individ- ual customer resource requirements can be directly dialled in with manu- facturing, purchasing and warehous- ing resources being automatically computed for best effect.
There are, in fact, in excess of 32,000 products available for specialist enclo- sure solutions.
The warehousing, ERP and web portal is an inte- grated solution ensuring second by second accu- racy on availability, pricing and delivery.
Application support Many of the products
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require careful understanding to gain best results, so FA Parkes has a team of applications specialists that have been factory trained and maintain close rela- tionship with the particular design authorities, meaning you can focus on your core products and requirements whilst FA Parkes – Advanced Technical Solutions looks after the hardware spec- ifications and application parameters. The team of applications experts can help you choose the right technol- ogy for your requirements, while the development lab and manufacturing workshop can provide both prototypes and final manufactured solutions complete for market.
Whether to modernise existing prod- ucts or fulfil a new requirement FA Parkes can help you develop, integrate or produce quality solutions.
Gas spring application assistance A perfectly matched gas spring is necessary for any installation situation. Here, the company can advise on the design of the kinematics or the design integration of the gas springs, present- ing a solution to specific needs and fine-tuning it with the customer. FA Parkes places special emphasis on dynamic layout and the highest level of user ergonomics. From installation rec- ommendations and production of sam- ples, to intensive product and design consultation – application support and service are always a high priority.
Access control applications Through the growing range of electronic control systems and its mechanical, electrical and software applications knowledge, FA Parkes can also provide solutions to many e-locking requirements: • Remote locking • Access control
• Automatic proof of delivery • Mobile applications • End to end tracking • Web based access and control • Cellular network solutions • Monitoring and alarming • Business to business inventory management
FA Parkes
www.faparkes.co.uk
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