Pero takes the initiative

Since the Great British Vote Out back in 2016 British manufacturing companies have seen a boom time with capacity utilisation increasing and the dramatic growth in exports. As a production engineer by training, I talk to our clients a lot about the challenges they face and for UK manufacturing the issues seem very similar across the board, be it Aerospace, Automotive, BTMA members or the supply chains that feed them.

• A shortage of skilled operators machine setters and production engineers.
• The need to invest in more advanced manufacturing software and improve efficiencies.
• An increased demand for new machine tools to cope with increasing production.
• Machine tool lead times that are becoming longer due to global demand.
• Understanding and taking advantage of automation and lights out operation

Talking to my counterparts in Europe I hear much the same story People, software, automation and lead times are cramping business growth plans and aspirations.

Pero AG of Germany, the largest family owned Advanced Parts Cleaning business has recognised this recent trend towards a cleaning capacity that cannot meet the increased production volumes passing through customers businesses. Pero's recent investments in two new manufacturing facilities in Germany means that a standard configuration of machine can be delivered in as little as 4 weeks as apposed to our competitors 5-8 months. Typically a standard machine is like that found in our showroom near Coventry having: -

• A full vacuum machine design
• wash and rinse tanks for efficient cleaning
• Ultrasonic cleaning for challenging or intense cleaning
• Vapour degreasing for that final cleaning process
• Vacuum drying down to below 10 mbar
• Automatic loading
• Continuous distillation

Typical washing cycles are 4-8 minutes including load / unload making Pero the fastest horizontally loaded solvent degreasing systems available today.

One of our valuable customers Nick Groom - Qualiturn said about Pero " Before we had a Pero R1 I used to wake up in the morning wondering what washing issues we would face today. Now that thought never enters my mind, the Pero does what says on the tin and doesn't let us down".