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年女王国际贸易企业奖得主，每年提供超过2400万个鼻夹，供应到欧洲、非洲和东南亚地区，采用单一鼻夹设计。自2019冠状病毒病爆发以来，我们看到对其他设计的需求有所增加，该项目将与现有客户一起进入市场，同时为其他型号的口罩提供制造解决方案，从而在美国和全球其他地区开辟非常大的供应前景。我们的多功能工具将完全由Brandauer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。该工具解决方案将在我们的工具室内部进行精密设计，允许高速生产以满足每年超过1亿个口罩的需求。在伯明翰制造，这些夹子可以满足整个英国，欧洲和世界其他地区的所有需求，正如我们已经向3M集团供应的那样。任何形状，用于家庭应用或口罩制造商的大规模应用，一旦新型快速旋转基础工具和辅助设备到位，适合儿童或成人可以以低成本的方法满足。夹子可以从高速压制环境中处理的创新方式，以支持面罩上的应用，表明从20mm到150mm宽的任何要求，都可以以低投资成本和短交货时间实现。由于政府在疫情指导下减少了工作人员，我们难以完成所有项目领域的工作。我们的员工要么休假，要么在家工作，这对日常业务活动产生了影响，确保我们在项目中保持交付和表现，满足客户的要求，然后在某些领域增加了额外的压力。然而，该项目使我们能够比之前预期的更快地将员工带回到业务中，我们的9月/ 10月的休假要求减少了，以帮助提高我们在现场的生产力，以适应新规范，并允许更多的时间用于各种研发项目。虽然我们已经实现了我们的一些目标，但我们已经看到项目时间框架略有下滑或失去了庄严，因此要求延期将项目拉回符合我们最初的时间框架，并帮助确保短期内从事该项目的企业和员工。

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.