A low cost, high productivity alternate solution to manufacture a wide range of the nose clips for use in protective face mask applications - "Face Mask Quick Clip Tool”

Brandauer是2019年皇后区国际贸易企业奖获得者，每年已经提供超过2400万个鼻夹，供应欧洲、非洲和东南亚地区，采用单一鼻夹设计。自从新冠肺炎爆发以来，我们已经看到对其他设计的需求增加，这个项目将抓住一条与现有客户一起进入市场的途径，同时为其他型号的口罩提供制造解决方案，从而在美国和世界其他地区打开非常大量的供应前景。我们的多功能工装将由Brandauer独家拥有，将为多个平台和客户提供一系列鼻夹，在短时间内交付，多种材料，每天输出多达500,000个夹子。模具解决方案将在我们的工具室内进行精密工程设计，允许高速生产，以满足每年超过1亿个口罩的需求。这些夹子在伯明翰制造，可以满足英国、欧洲和世界其他地区的所有需求，正如我们已经向3M集团供应的产品所证明的那样。一旦新的快速车削底座工具和辅助设备就位，就可以以低成本的方法满足家庭应用或口罩制造商、儿童或成人的大规模应用的任何形状。夹子可以从高速冲压环境处理以支持应用到口罩上的创新方式，证明了从20 mm到150 mm宽的任何要求，可以用低投资成本和较短的交付期来实现。由于政府在疫情指导下减少了员工，我们很难完成所有项目区域的工作。我们的员工要么被暂时停职，要么在家工作，这对企业的日常活动产生了影响，确保我们通过项目保持我们的交付和业绩，并在某些领域增加了额外的压力。但是，该项目使我们能够比之前预期的更快地将员工带回业务中来，9/10月我们的休假索赔减少了，以帮助提高我们的现场生产率，以适应虽然我们已经实现了我们的一些目标，但我们看到项目时间框架略有下滑或失去了重要性，因此要求延期，以使项目回到我们最初的时间框架，并在短期内帮助确保业务和员工在项目中工作。

Brandauer, a 2019 Queens Award for Enterprise Winner for International Trade, already provides over 24,000,000 nose clips per year, supplying into the European, African and South East Asia regions, with a single nose clip design. We have seen increased requirements for other designs since the outbreak of Covid-19 and this project will capture a route to market with existing customers while providing manufacturing solutions for other models of masks, thus opening up very high-volume supply prospects in the USA and other regions worldwide.Our versatile tooling, which would be solely Brandauer owned, would provide multiple platforms and customers with a range nose clips, delivered in a short period of time, in multiple materials outputting up to 500,000 clips per day.The tooling solution will be precision engineered inhouse in our toolroom, allowing high speed production to fulfil demand of more than 100,000,000 face masks per year. Made in Birmingham, these clips can fulfil all demands throughout the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world as we have already demonstrated with our supply to the 3M group. Any shape, for home application or on a large scale for face mask manufacturers, fitting children or adults can be catered for in a low-cost method once the novel quick turn base tooling and auxiliaries are in place.The innovative way that the clips can be handled from the high-speed pressing environment to support the application on to the masks, demonstrates that any requirement from 20mm to 150mm wide, can be achieved with low investment cost and short lead times.Extension for Impact Due to reduced staff following government guidance with the pandemic we have had difficulty in fulfilling all the project areas.Our staff have either been furloughed or worked from home this has had an impact on the general day to day activities of the business ensuring we maintain our delivery and performance to our customer requirements with the projects then adding an extra pressure in some areas.However the project then enabled us to bring staff back to the business quicker than previously anticipated where our furlough claim was reduced for Sept / October to help increase our productivity on site adjusting to the new norm and allowing more time on various R&D projects.Whilst we have achieved some of our objectives we have seen the project time frame slip slightly or lose gravitas therefore the extension is being requested to pull the project back in line with our initial time frame and help secure the business and employees working on the project in the short term.