Blue Diamond is delighted to announce that it has installed Microsoft Dynamics NAV to reinforce the high level of service already on offer to its multifarious customers.
Dynamics NAV is a multi-language, multi-currency enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that will assist with the smooth integration of all aspects of company business including accounting and finances, supply chain, operations and stock management.
Best known for the design and manufacturer of high quality components and assemblies made of metal or plastic, behind the scenes Blue Diamond takes equal pride in the level of service offered to customers, a service which forms such an important part of the Blue Diamond ethos.
Implementation of Dynamics NAV will assist with the integration of day-to-day activities across the whole of the Blue Diamond organisation from financial management at the top end to the tracking and management of production, stock inventories, order input, keeping abreast of sales, estimating, quality control, managing capacity and providing a holistic view of the business to aid decision making.
Blue Diamond has spent several months along with a not inconsiderable amount of money getting to grips with all the possibilities offered by Dynamics NAV including extensive training for all personnel involved with the software. Dynamics NAV will provide a common platform ensuring that the service experienced by customers will be more efficient and streamlined than ever before.
Blue Diamond and their long term business partner NAK Sealing Technologies Corporation of Taiwan are again joining forces on stand number K65 at Automechanika, the UK’s leading exhibition for the automotive aftermarket and vehicle production sector. Automechanika takes place from the 5-7th June at the NEC in Birmingham.
Blue Diamond and NAK will be featuring an ever-expanding range of automotive seals and mechanical components, presenting a highly competitive source of aftermarket components in large and small quantities. The re-engineering of difficult-to-source parts has become a company speciality.
With many years’ experience in the production of customised mechanical components, the engineers at Hampshire company Blue Diamond have identified the propensity of customers to spend thousands of pounds, unnecessarily, on the manufacture of handed products i.e. right and left hand versions of the same part.
Careful consideration of the ‘design for manufacture’ aspects of these products provides the opportunity to reduce cost dramatically – customers should not be obliged to order equal quantities of left hand and right hand products when they are not needed, just because it’s not economical to set-up for smaller productions runs.
It may be possible for parts to be machined in such a way that left hand and right hand features are only added at the end of the manufacturing process, allowing higher numbers of the base part, containing common features, to be produced more economically.
Blue Diamond endeavours to re-engineer handed parts in such a way that left hand and right hand attributes are assigned at the end of the manufacturing process – for example, the handed sub-components can be slotted into, screwed into or welded to the main assembly.
The streamlining of handed parts has become something of a speciality for Blue Diamond who examine all applications to see if by adapting, or adding mating components, parts can be rotated or adjusted to fit in such a way that the need for handed components is completed eliminated.