Made Smarter: Made in the North East
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00:00I'm Ed Blackbird, I'm the Managing Director of Diehl Direct Blinds and Gated.
00:17I'm Ryan Pinder, I'm Operations Manager for X-Mesh and Head of Continuous Improvement
00:23for the Expanded Metal Company.
00:25Made Smarter Adoption North East helped us greatly to buy this state-of-the-art automated
00:30micro-pneumatic cutting machine.
00:32We're thrilled since day of delivery of this machine that it's given us a 30% improvement
00:37in production and reduced mistakes almost down to zero.
00:41We had a spike in demand in one particular product where our customer was happy with
00:45our product and wanted to give us more and more.
00:48Made Smarter Adoption North East helped us look at options going down the Cobalt Welder.
00:53The Cobalt Welder is a safer and quicker way of doing our high-volume repeat items.
01:01So the Cobalt can do that two tables at a time which helps massively decrease the downtime
01:08that we were having.
01:09It's been an absolute pleasure working with Made Smarter Adoption North East who've made
01:13things very simple and easy for us.
01:16I would advise any manufacturer to take part in the scheme, it really helps open your eyes
01:21to the future and seeing us believe in the funding that's available is a massive help
01:26to make that first step.