Team saves firm hours

A FIRM of County Durham engineers has stripped hours from its manufacturing times and is planning to venture into new markets, thanks to a team of experts.

Bignall Group is saving hundreds of manhours, investing in new machinery and planning the second phase of its project working with a team of specialists from the Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing (SAM) Project. SAM – which offers a range of support to SME manufacturing businesses in the North East LEP area – supported the Shildon-based operation following a full survey of Bignall Group’s production and workflow management systems, helping the company pinpoint bottlenecks in the process and develop a plan to address them.

Bignall Group general manager, Mark Coatsworth, said the expertise of the SAM Project team had been vital in helping identify areas where improvements could be made.