![]() “I knew the standards that Whirlpool wanted us to work towards and Pirtek was offering exactly what we wanted – hose register, total management and control of preventative maintenance,” Matt says. There is a drive at Whirlpool towards world class manufacturing, so the focus is on professional, preventative maintenance and quality of machinery. “For a UK manufacturer, reliability, efficiency and performance is critical. Matt could see a lot of improvements were required. ![]() Jason made contact with Matt, they came together for a chat and things developed from there. We employ around 400 people here.”ĭarren Squire, Franchisee of Pirtek Bristol had mentioned Whirlpool to his sales manager, Jason Greenwood, as a potential client and it was perfect timing when Matt took hold of the maintenance department in May 2017. “Two years ago, we hit a peak production output of 1.2m units per year, with a weekly high of 38,000 a week. “As with any factory now, there’s lots of componentry brought in but all the steelwork is manufactured on site, so we are manufacturing all of the primary process steel here and then fitting and assembling the final finished product. There are folding machines and a few things like that but most of it is drum, side and rear panel manufacture. “There are four 600-tonne hydraulic multi-stage forming presses creating the front, side and rear panels for the products. Since February 2018, Pirtek Bristol has been working at Whirlpool’s tumble dryer factory in Yate to improve the efficiency of its hydraulic systems through data-led preventative maintenance.Įxplaining what Whirlpool makes at the Yate factory, Maintenance Manager Matthew Wyatt says, “We have multiple hydraulic machines running here, including drum manufacture lines, which are cutting, forming and seaming the drums.
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