Wolter Tijdink
Wolter Tijdink: ‘You will save time and reduce your forklift movements’
Wolter Tijdink ‘s homepage leaves no room for misunderstanding. “WE MAKE TRAPS!” it says; in capital letters and with an exclamation mark. At Wolter Tijdink (Borculo, 32 employees) they have been producing custom-made stairs and banisters for over 30 years, in every shape and for every space.
The company handles the entire process itself, from design through to production, including laser cutting all the sheet metal required, as Technical Director Bastiaan te Poele explains: “We built a new section onto our hall and installed a fibre laser cutter there in 2018. To make our sheet metalworking department complete, we were also looking for a shear and a press brake. At the time aalbers|farina also supplied these, so we got in touch with them. When we got there, however, it was actually the sheet metal storage rack that caught our eye straight away. We quickly identified the benefits it could offer.”
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Technical Director Bastiaan te Poele
Always the bottom sheet that’s needed
“You could buy a standard rack with pallets, but it would quickly fill up”, Te Poele continues. “And what do you do then? You just put a pallet next to it. It all becomes an enormous mess, as it’s always the bottom sheet that you need. With our storage system we can see exactly what is in which drawer and how much we have left. And you don’t have to go round clearing up pallets.”
38 drawers within a height of 6 metres
“Compared with pallets, we can store a lot more material in our system. We work with all kinds of materials, with various thicknesses. That’s why we wanted to fit as many drawers as possible into the available space. In the end we bought a variant with 38 drawers, which are incorporated into a structure less than 6 metres in height. This was possible thanks to the shallowness of the drawers. But you can still store 2.5 tonnes of material in a single drawer.”
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Time savings and safety
Where do the main benefits lie for Wolter Tijdink? “In particular, it saves you time. You can place the right sheet onto the machine with just a press of a button. Another important benefit is that you can reduce the number of forklift movements. Safety matters too, after all. And you no longer have to go round clearing up pallets.”
Tidy hall means enjoyable work
“You not only work more efficiently, as there are fewer operations involved, but the work is also more pleasant”, Te Poele concludes. “A tidy hall is enjoyable to work in. A number of fellow metalwork companies have visited us to come and see the laser cutter. What always strikes them is how tidy everything is. And that’s largely down to the sheet metal storage rack.”
“Fellow metalwork companies are always struck by how tidy everything is. And that’s largely down to the sheet metal storage rack.”
Bastiaan te Poele, Technical Director Wolter Tijdink
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Convenience and space
And what about efficiency? “How do you define efficiency? We are not a manufacturing company that is constantly cutting and shearing. We are involved in machine and equipment building, so the laser cutting and shearing we do is only for ourselves. Some of the machines we have here may only be in use for fifty hours a year, as we like to do everything in house and want to offer our customers a quick service. For us it’s all about convenience and space.”
Maintenance contract
Conijn also concluded a maintenance contract for its automatic sheet metal storage rack: “That means it gets inspected annually and allows the supplier to log in if there is ever a fault. So far we have never had to make use of that. But it gives you a good feeling to know that if there’s a problem, they can immediately take a look.”