SIMS ENGINEERING SYSTEMS LTD

Mission Statement
To serve our customers needs as best as possible and to provide a pleasant working environment for our work force

Company Background
Sims Engineering started life in 1979 and has been in its present form since 1986.The company has always specialized in the manufacture of bespoke machines, with an emphasis on developing new process, and combining different technologies. This work has eventually led us into involvement with various r&d projects. From this involvement, we have developed a broad and in depth knowledge base, and have a reputation for thinking “outside the box”. A particular point of pride was when we supplied our first pharmaceutical system for Glaxo. Not only did the system pay for itself in its first week and was right first time, but apparently they were used to buying a system for a price then spending that price again to get it to work correctly.
   We also have strong reputation for our level of support we offer our customers, whether it be at the initial inquiry stage, or years after the system has been delivered.

At Sims Engineering Systems ltd, We are mainly known for our special purpose machine building and integrating. All the other sectors we work in have come about from our expertise at this(R&D customers have been impressed with our ability to develop and build unique products and machines that are usually right fist time, which is not what they have been used to ). Most machines we develop and build in very short lead times and quite often we will be building machines while products that the machines are for are still being designed. This means we need to be flexible and incorporate late design changes but still maintain original delivery deadlines. As an example in late 2003 we built a complete bumper assembly line for one of our customers in 16 weeks, this includes the design time. This line incorporated complex ultrasonic welders with built in inspection, punching machines and various assembly machines. Due to the short lead time of the project it was also imperative that everything was right first time.

Most project usually start with the customer giving us a spec of what they need to do with the product, we would then make recommendations of what we feel would be the best solutions and the different associated costs, then together we can come up with the best solution to the problem at hand.

As we are a systems integrator we are quite happy to incorporate several technologies in one machine. For example we can incorporate ultrasonic welding, punching and screw inserting in a single machine. We also have some machines that could loosely be called standard but we are always willing to change the "standard", unlike some of our competitors who will only build one type of machine

British Built Machine Wins Award At NEC Debut Before Being Shipped to Ford in Cologne

A machine designed & built by Sims Engineering Systems of Harlow Essex for Ford factory in Cologne, won the Process Machine Development Association Award in the ancillary equipment category at Interplas 96, the plastic & rubber industries most important exhibition in the UK & held only every three years. It made its debut on the Branson Ultrasonic stand at the NEC during the five day exhibition, which attracted 50000 visitors from all over the world, before being shipped out to Germany where it will weld brackets on the bumpers of Ford's Scorpio cars.

The machine has two Branson 40kHz welding heads, with advanced technology power supplies, incorporated in a programmable triple axis positioning servo pneumatics system from world leaders in automation, FESTO. By using the latest developments in ULTRASONICS from Branson, & a computer controlled positioning system, the machine can be adapted for welding the brackets on bumpers from other Ford models, replacing a conventional dedicated system.

The power supplies continually check the resonant frequency of the horns to measure any drift due to heating during the weld cycle & then start the horn at its correct frequency. The PLC allows each individual head to have its own separate weld time & therefore ensures consistent quality.

In this new system, the data entry facility makes operation simple with a graphic interface using a touch pad display panel. The equipment is capable of being programmed for up to 15 different applications, each with 15 programmable weld positions & to process other sized bumpers, only requires the change of horn & fixtures.

In making the Award, the Chairman of the Judging Panel, Dr. Mark Brenner, commented that the Sims machine demonstrated a very effective combination of engineering technology, quality of build & attention to customer needs. More than a hundred new products on exhibition at Interplas were considered by the Judging Panel for the Innovation Award.

 

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