Example 1.
Gutters and down pipes
This job is for a large 30m x 20m canopy, the job consists of 100m of 1m gutters, with 100 connectors and 8 down pipes with 4m sections giving 32 pipes in total. So, all in all we have 232 items to move through the factory.
These do not need to be shot blasted as they aluminium and new material, so in effect miss out the shot blast and HZS stages and move straight to the powder coat booths where they are processed with a degrease, manual abrade, etch primed, and then finished with a powder coat.
Laid out in batches of component type these will take approx. 30 mins per batch involving 3+ staff to degrease, abrade, and hang up in the booths, so a total of 2-3 hours to prepare before the powder coat process. (Time depending on staff allocated) We have two large 8m ovens, we can split this job across both booths and with 4 tracks on each and the skill of our workers we can hang the whole job across the two ovens.
To tech prime and then heat to cure the primer will take 1 hour and then coat with the powder coat finish will take another 1 hour.
But we are not finished yet.
Once each of the ovens is cured, the items need to cool in order to be checked and packed, this takes another 1 hour.
Then they are wrapped, labelled and ready to ship out. In total, from the start of the process to them being packed and ready to ship it’s taken 6 hours and that’s without any interruptions and all the finished items being approved by quality control.