TECHNOLOGY

Cuisines Schmidt - our market is the world

With the revolutionary “Losgröße 1” concept at Cuisines Schmidt everything is in work-flow. 4200 parts are cut on one day in two shift operations. The French kitchen manufacturer Cuisines Schmidt in Selestat, market leader in France and seventh-largest kitchen producer in Europe, recently start up a new Schelling cut-to-size-plant.

With the revolutionary “Losgröße 1” concept, the kitchen manufacturer, annual turnover 250 millions €, 1,200 employee, has put his production on to new

flexibility and even shorter transmission delays.  Mr. Oliver Ofner, project manager at Cuisines Schmidt: „In our industry the trend goes clearly to even more individual kitchen solutions. Were needed in former times for example 1,000 pieces of a certain cut, there is today 20 times 50 panels, which we must cut fast and most precise In addition it comes that, not least due to the costing and time pressure, it makes little sense, to place a cut-to-size saw somewhere in the hall and move the panels there. If one wants to produce economically and flexibly, the cut-to-size plant must become part of the entire flow of production.

Today, any company can cut a square board. But to have this at the right time at the right place is something quite different. Schelling helped us to revolutionise our manufacturing organisation through automated work piece transport and flow. The handling between machines, the board feed cycle times and the sensitive materials processing are all simply ideal with Schelling. “ Who wants to integrate a cut-to-size plant into the existing workflow, so Mr. Oliver Ofner, gets along only rarely with solutions of the bar: „Important was for us therefore the

willingness Schelling’s to work together with our experts to develop a concept that considers all our requirements down to the very last detail. The Schelling people looked into our working processes really intensively and installed a plant, which ran from the first minute with approximately full achievement. I regard it as a completely special master achievement… to integrate a new plant into an existing manufacturing process. Already with the first conversation the discussion was led very openly and objective, always with the goal of developing together an optimal solution. Perfectly clocked we became with Schelling now still more competitive. And this is how we have to work, because our market is the world.“