PECM Issue 32 2018 | Page 60

Control & Automation SMART MANUFACTURING Established in 1973, Velden is a British family owned subcontract engineering company, with an outstanding reputation for supplying quality machined products into the most challenging environments. Providing a one stop production facility to an array of blue-chip clients, Velden supply a broad range of product, covering everything from small turned items in high volume to precision machined components, all the way to larger ASME IX fabricated assemblies and fully built and tested systems. Significant investment made by Velden in the latest production machinery, factory automation, including robot loading assistants, camera and laser vision inspection systems and plant 60 PECM Issue 32 improvements in recent years, proves their on-going commitment to becoming a modern smart factory. The company is currently partnering Manchester Metropolitan University on the Knowledge Transfer Programme to work on a project to evolve their ERP system to a cloud based platform, which will inter-connect with other systems and utilise data for analytics and Industry 4.0 intelligence. Velden recognise that further advancement of its technology and systems is the key to on-going success by optimising productivity and improving both internal and external communications and in doing so, offering its customers a far greater service with added benefits. www.velden.co.uk Tel: 01204 520620 E-mail: [email protected]