LIEBHERR-AUSTRALIA
MINING company ’ s expansion efforts is the remanufacturing facility in Adelaide . Construction started in January of 2013 and was completed in August of this year to a cost of around $ 80 million . The facility will be hiring around 138 new employees over the next year and a half out of the South Australian job market .
“ The rebuild centre focusses on all of our major components for our mining operations in Australia and New Zealand ,” said Pichanick . “ All of the spare parts and components from the machinery will be sent back to Adelaide for remanufacture and then go back into the distribution outlets around Australia . Our business had a very decentralised model previously ; however we are now consolidating everything under the one roof . The disassembly area includes a washbay , shot-blast , disassembly workcells , quality control station and machining . There are over 2,000 locations for pallets in the SEU warehouse , as well as cylinder and rod storage , a place for REMAN planning and a production office . The assembly area includes a paint booth , another quality check station , 12 wall-travelling cranes and four overhead gantry cranes .
100 Percent Liebherr Vertical integration is one of Liebherr Group ’ s strategies . As the Liebherr family built the brand and the business , they have consistently found ways to develop the company ’ s own technology in house ; the machinery the company offers is much more efficient and cost-saving for the end-user because of this business strategy .
“ The most important thing for us is controlling the quality and reducing the cost where we can ,” shared Pichanick . “ We can do this because of our vertical integration model . We want to be able to provide our customers with the lowest cost per tonne on the market through the product lifecycle You ’ ve got to have a good quality machine that ’ s reliable , but to maintain our reputation it has to be the most cost-effective machine on the market . Liebherr-Australia has built that reputation .”
A way the company successfully reduces costs is through their innovation process . When a
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