BIW Compact 3-2015 English

02 When it comes to competence When it comes to competence COMPACT When it comes to competence When it comes to competence A GIFT TO ALL CUSTOMERS BIW puts their own mould testing department into operation In November of this year, BIW put four fully equipped extrusion production lines into operation designed for the sole purpose of initial sampling. The optimisation of details will continue to the end of the year in order to fulfil a long-awaited desire in time for Christmas, to offer our customers a special gift - namely improved performance in the development and creation of new profile contours. The technical equipment of the four extrusion lines matches our series production lines precisely so that all testing on the new systems may simply be transferred over to the production systems. This is not just a technical advantage, this is of particular significance for formal reasons also. When it comes to quality, the new products in the pilot batches made on the serial production lines will also meet the standards to be fulfilled from a formal point of view. The design of the new testing department enables us to increase our ability to deliver serial jobs as well as increase the speed in the implementation of testing and thus offering our customers improved performance. Serial jobs can be planned and implemented better since they do not need to be interrupted for testing purposes. After all, no-one is able to predict precisely how long this process will take. The installed technology means that we are able to carry out around 95 % of all testing (extrusion horizontally and vertically, as well as foam extrusion and co-extrusion). The testing department will be managed by Dirk Huwald, the most experienced extrusion specialist at BIW. His team includes other experienced specialists for extrusion as well as the entire tool construction process, who have previously also been responsible for the crea- tion of extrusion tools and the qualification of such on the machines. Organisational adaptations for efficient testing pro- cedures go hand-in-hand with technical measures, ranging from the manufacturability assessments to offer creation and through to the delivery of the new profiles with the required documentation such as EMPB or PPAP. We have made it our aim to implement every new profile for our customers in good time. We are already able to make one promise with regard to this high quality claim: We will be working to be best of our abilities to ensure we achieve this goal. Please lend us you trust in 2016 too. — DR. MARKUS WIETHOFF FACTFILE NAME: Dirk Huwald POSITION: Head of project management, testing department EDUCATION: Process technician for plastic and rubber technology, master of plastic and rubber technology, quality inspector INTERESTS: Football, travel, reading GOALS TO To make every product available to the customer ACHIEVE smoothly, and on time. To enthuse the customers AT BIW: with quality and precision.

BIW Compact 3-2015 English

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