Strong and Lite

Kenco shows that Titanium and Preactor have something in common

Kenco Techniques, based in Kensworth, Bedfordshire, is a manufacturer of precision-machined components for the aerospace, Formula One, and micro surgical industries.

Founded in 1972 under the name Kenco Engineering, it currently employs 15 people. The company's main processes involve CAD/CAM design, prototyping and finished product manufacture. Specialising in the machining of Titanium, Kenco Techniques has an extensive itinerary of CNC milling, CNC turning and CNC wire erosion plant. Although product quality has always been consistent, the company found scheduling jobs on the shop floor increasingly challenging as its workload increased. Much of the work was designated time slots by word of mouth or on paper distributed from department to department. However this often resulted in bottlenecks and failure to deliver goods on time. Kenco Techniques needed to ensure staff were kept fully informed about workload and scheduling by providing access to real time data via a state-of-the-art scheduling system.

A British Aerospace Airbus Limited é uma das empresas do grupo British Aerospace PLC e detém 20 % de participação no consórcio AIRBUS. O grupo British Aerospace atua em diversos ramos, desde aeronaves e produtos militares até aeronaves comerciais, além de outras empresas como a Orange Communication.

O Preactor foi instalado no setor de ferramentaria da maior empresa do grupo, localizada em Broughton, no Reino Unido. Nesta unidade são desenvolvidos e fabricados vários tipos de produtos, incluindo mais de 180 tipos de asas para aeronaves AIRBUS e cerca de 40 fuselagens diferentes para os jatos executivos Hawker 800.