Globally, the focus is shifting more and more to sustainability and being CO2 neutral. This has actually always been one of mt unirepair’s pillars. To take this to the next level we increased our R&D department and started looking for local sources to buy our components, which are needed to fix the defective parts in repair.
We were facing a lot of delivery issues, because of several reasons. For example, some suppliers were not sticking to lead time agreements, the European government introduced more strict rules for importing metal or aluminum or the quality of the delivered parts were not according to our quality standards.
To overcome these component issues, we started buying our components more locally and at original suppliers, to cut out the middlemen. Because of buying the components at different suppliers, we faced the challenge that some of the components are not the complete assemblies we were used to receive. This means now we had to create our own sub-assemblies.
Challenges we faced:
To ensure 100% quality of the assembled components we have a dedicated team working on these tasks. This became a cooperation between our purchasing department, R&D department, operational department and quality department.
Because of this cooperation we are able to create the components with an even higher quality level then we ever received from the original supplier. The managed to do this, by having a very thorough testing environment, to mimic the printing presses, in which these complete spare parts are operating.
This project and afterwards fully developed process, resulted in several positive changes:
All above improvements are strength to our mission and vision!
