TPSM is a family-run company, started 35 years ago by my father and I joined straight from school. My brother works with us, he runs the finance and purchasing side of things and I look after more the production. So we're generally not one of those companies that will take a set of drawings and quote from that. We'd much rather someone comes to us with an idea. We then take that idea and we use all of our equipment to actually create a solution.
Every time I looked at robotic press brakes, I kind of came to the conclusion that they were just too difficult to program. Because we're a subcontractor, we need to be able to move from job to job very quickly and efficiently.
When we looked at the Dyna-Cell and the angle correction system on it, it just ticked all of the boxes for me. One of the other key benefits of the Dyna-Cell was that we've got the offline programming, CADMAN-B. Sometimes we're creating quite complex nests. It's where we've got much smaller components and we join them together so we're folding multiple parts at the same time. So yeah, the programming software was the main advantage of the system. We found the machine to be so successful that we were constantly running so we decided to go for a second machine and that way we could actually do all of our development work during the week and then over the weekends and overnight we could run the machines automatically.
In respect to the service side of LVD, we have a great relationship. Being that this was a whole new kind of venture for us in robotic folding, when we have had a problem, the great thing is that the designated engineer literally comes, supports us, and I really couldn't ask for much more. So, really pleased with that support.
The investment in the Dyna-Cell on a strategic level has really helped the business in respect to our goals of increasing our automation. We're now able to offer very, very competitively priced products on a quicker lead time because we can literally run those machines 24/7 should we have that sort of volume product coming through. So it's really made a difference to our business on that level.