Case Studies
The Clydesdale Engineering Team
Over many years it has become obvious that investing in the employees of the business gets rewards and makes for a better working environment.
Be it new apprentice schemes, additional training or simply listening to ideas and suggestions, taking them forward and implementing changes demonstrates to the business that Clydesdale Engineering care. The people are the cogs of the business, deserve recognition for their efforts and idea which creates a foundation for an effective team.
Export Off Highway Customer
One of Clydesdale Engineering’s existing clients approached the business with a problem regarding a footbrake operation. The location of the footbrake meant that there were many directional forces being applied to the pedal that caused the mechanism to fail. Via the design engineers and sharing concepts with the customer a design has been created that overcomes the problem and has given a fail safe unit for both original equipment fit and aftermarket supply.
Niche Vehicle manufacturer
A new customer came to Clydesdale Engineering and presented a catalogue of products that need manufacturing. These included press parts, welded parts and fully fabricated parts using a combination of skills and processes. The main problem the customer faced was the traditional tooling cost that would be associated with press tools and robotic welding. Clydesdale Engineering reviewed the parts, made recommendations to the client, and as a result redeveloped 90% of the product to products that required minimal tooling. With the help of Clydesdale Engineering sister company Accles and Pollock complex fabrications have been developed and now in series production
Volume Supply – Automotive
Clydesdale Engineering have traditionally worked with of highway and nonautomotive customers. Over the last years this tradition has changed and via investment in robot welding, nut welding facilities the business has developed in to a reliable, cost effective source for high volume sub-assemblies. This has allowed these clients to focus on its own core skills being larger vehicle structures.
Subcontract Support
Clydesdale Engineering has a substantial press hall that has both progression and manual presses. The flexibility the press hall can offer to its customers is seen an asset. A company that was moving facilities needed Clydesdale Engineering support. After a initial planning the program started and over a period of two months a total of 200 tools were transferred into Clydesdale Engineering facility supporting production. The balance of moving tools, managing stocks, keeping production flowing was a mammoth task, however via the excellent team approach combined with a very organised client meant the program was delivered on time and in full.
