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News Release from: ASCO Joucomatic | Subject: Premier cylinder service
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 March 2006
24 hour pneumatic cylinder replacement
service
The new Asco Joucomatic Premier pneumatic cylinder service enables companies to get interrupted production back-on line, fast - and with minimum downtime costs
The new Asco Joucomatic Premier Cylinder Service enables companies to get interrupted production back-on line, fast, and with minimum downtime costs The new service provides a safety net in the event of unexpected failure of pneumatic cylinders, by providing a facility for replacement in as little as 4-hours
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 16 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Premier Cylinder Service covers the Asco Joucomatic comprehensive ranges of profile and round tube cylinders in bore sizes from 8-125mm, and of virtually any stroke length.
It offers a graduated level of service dependent upon user need and urgency.
The highest-level service is the Premier 4-hour service: this guarantees same day delivery for orders of up to two cylinders placed before12-noon.
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Importantly for customers, the price of cylinders supplied under the new service is as per the current Asco Joucomatic price list; however, a nominal GBP25 service charge per cylinder is applied, plus special carriage charge for same day delivery.
For situations where speed of delivery is not quite so crucial, Asco Joucomatic has introduced the Premier 24-hour and Premier 24-Hour+ services.
Operating on the same terms as the Premier 4-hour service, the Premier 24-Hour guarantees manufacture of up to two cylinders within 24-hours and same day overnight despatch for orders placed before 12-noon; while the Premier 24 Hour+ ensures manufacture of up to 5 cylinders within 24-hours and next day despatch with no service charge.
"The introduction of this new graduated service is a crucial support to the 24-hour manufacturing and processing operations of our customers," says John Christophe Serkumian, Managing Director of Asco Joucomatic UK.
"The nature of the global economy means that interruptions in production are extremely serious and costly in downtime terms.
With our new service, our aim is to reduce the duration of these interruptions to an absolute minimum, helping to ensure maximum efficiency from our customers plants".
The Premier Cylinder Service is one of the first results of the Asco Joucomatic initiative in lean manufacturing at its Skelmersdale manufacturing facility.
The company has invested GBP250,000, alone, on one machining centre, which is used for manufacturing piston rods.
This, and major investment in other areas of its machine shop and logistics facilities, is optimising the Asco Joucomatic operations, by improving the through-flow of goods and data, and by minimising waste. Request a free brochure from ASCO Joucomatic ...
"Our initiative in Lean Manufacturing has been undertaken to ensure that Asco Joucomatic remains a major player in the fluid control and fluid power markets," says John Christophe Serkumian, "Our aim is to give our customers the products that they want, when they want them; and always endeavouring to exceed their expectations".
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