We are continually integrating the core values of Lean Management into our business, by actively pursuing Continuous Improvement activities, targeting staff training, shopfloor efficiency & implementing 5S techniques

Our Values:

• Encourage excellence in everything we do
• Build sustainable collaborative relationships with customers, suppliers and partners through commitment, innovation and integrity
• Develop products through a design led process to exceed customer satisfaction whilst reducing our environmental impact
• Encourage openness and collaboration in all aspects of our business
• Be proactive, honest, responsive and flexible
• Provide a safe and fulfilling environment for all our employees
• Continually improve our business processes

Our Mission:

• Understand our customer’s needs and expectations
• Achieve zero defects by adopting a Right First Time approach
• Promote effective communication throughout the workforce
• Drive continuous improvement in all our business activities by implementing and adhering to Lean practice
• Drive continuous improvement in the research, design and development of products and processes
• Encourage all our employees to work closely together in teams
• Become Best In Class by effective teamwork and communication
• Promote customer satisfaction throughout the entire life cycle of the product

Our Health & Safety commitment:

• Attach great importance to the H&S of our employees and all other persons affected by our activities, by establishing and enforcing safe methods of work in factory and on site
• Provide and maintain safe plant and machinery
• Ensure that tasks given to employees are within their skills, knowledge and ability to perform
• Promote awareness of H&S and of good practice through effective communication
• Identify hazards in the workplace, assessing the risks related to them and implementing appropriate preventive and protective measures

Our Environmental commitment:

• Continually improve our environmental performance
• Reduce our consumption of resources & improve the efficient use of those resources
• Measure & take action to reduce the carbon footprint of our business activities
• Manage our business operations to prevent pollution
• Manage waste generated from our business operations & prevent pollution
• Ensure environmental criteria are taken into account in the procurement of goods & services
• Comply with all relevant environmental requirements

Our production planning software links directly to our MRP to provide day to day scheduling, capacity planning, what-if analysis and sceario planning. We have opted for  Access Group’s Factory Master for our software needs.

It provides Gantt chart for our production planners, meaning rapid implementation of programme changes, accurate forecasting, and being able to predict bottlenecks before they occur.

Quality is at the core of our business. Our special processes are regularly audited by external auditing practices, and this gives our customer’s the reassurance that we are committed to working to their standards.

We are accredited to:-

• ISO9001:2015
• International Rail Industry Standard TS 22163:2017 (Rev 3.1)
• EN15085-2 CWRVC Welding of Railway Vehiles and Components
• ISO3834 Quality Requirements in Welding
• and working to DIN6701-2 Adhesive Bonding of Railway Vehicles and Parts.