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Furniture Manufacturing: Picking Weinig

San Lim Furniture manufactures furniture and needed to improve their production line to meet increasing customer demands for faster turnaround times, higher quality, and smaller minimum order quantities. They selected WEINIG machinery after attending demonstrations that showed how the integrated machines could seamlessly link together an efficient production line. San Lim has been using WEINIG machines for over 25 years and the latest advanced models have helped them achieve their quality and productivity goals.

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Furniture Manufacturing: Picking Weinig

San Lim Furniture manufactures furniture and needed to improve their production line to meet increasing customer demands for faster turnaround times, higher quality, and smaller minimum order quantities. They selected WEINIG machinery after attending demonstrations that showed how the integrated machines could seamlessly link together an efficient production line. San Lim has been using WEINIG machines for over 25 years and the latest advanced models have helped them achieve their quality and productivity goals.

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26 FURNITURE MANUFACTURING

WEINIG is able to train staff at San Lim Furniture with the ins and
outs of their machines to build a seamless production line

“It takes time and it ’s about requesting for lesser MOQ (minimum PICKING WEINIG
consistency,” said Antonius. order quantity),” he added. “WEINIG is a good brand. There are a lot
About five years ago, a customer For instance, “In the past, when we of similar machines that are 50 per cent
initially gave them a D, but over the years, said the MOQ is 100 pieces, they’ll agree. cheaper but because we are focusing
San Lim has worked hard to overturn the But now, we have customers requesting on quality, we believe the investment in
score. “And within that period of time, we for 50 pieces or fewer,” said Antonius. “If WEINIG machines will help us achieve
improved ourselves and actually became we do not use the CNC machine, we’ll that,” Antonius explained.
an A-grade vendor,” Antonius explained. have to use the jig all the time, which will “We used WEINIG machines 25 years
The result also reflects the different result in a longer downtime.” ago for our factory in Indonesia. Those
demands of the customers and the trend The increase in workers’ salary each were the simple ones then. For the
in the industry such as fast turnaround year is also another challenge that San current advanced machines, we bought
time with better quality. Lim is facing. With higher costs and the it two years ago and have since started
“Customers are paying more need for faster turnaround and punctual buying more,” Tony said.
attention to quality as well as punctuality shipments, the furniture manufacturer San Lim attended WEINIG tour for
in shipping,” said Antonius. “There is needed to look into a long-term solution the first time at the LIGNA show in 2015.
also a trend now where customers are to address these challenges. During the tour, the team was taken to
factories in Tauberbischofsheim (TBB),
Germany, where they were offered a
behind-the-scenes look of the production
lines in factories that were using WEINIG
machines.
Demonstrations were done to
showcase clear advantages and the
potential of the machines while providing a
platform for everyone to exchanges ideas.
“Before the show, they were already
explaining to us how we can link up the
different machines together and when we
saw it for ourselves, we said ‘Yes, this is
definitely what we need’ and bought it,”
said Antonius.
The team has since been on two tours
and each time it further affirms their
belief in WEINIG.

January / February 2018 • Issue 1 • PANELS & FURNITURE ASIA

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