Turn-key solutions from automation experts

Both companies have considerable design, manufacture and build experience and strong reputations in their respective market areas providing superior machine design, focussed system solution engineering with improved customer support and faster development/production timescales.

The agreement follows a number of successful projects where Heason Technology has supplied Mecelec Design with motion control components and high precision positioning sub-systems for the UK based designer and manufacturers’ turn-key engineered automation solutions.

The new build partner alliance expands upon this success and operates on a project by project basis with either company acting as a subcontractor or as a prime supplier depending upon specific customer needs.

In this way the customer is able to specify its exact system requirements and together Heason and Mecelec will provide a total machine solution with no limitation or compromise in the scope of design, manufacture, commissioning and support. Generally, Mecelec would project manage large scale and plant automated solutions for production and/or test systems with Heason taking the helm for motion-centric projects such as single machines. However, both companies would be involved throughout, contributing its own area of expertise for an optimised solution that both meets and exceeds the technical and cost requirements for the customer.

This new initiative will enable Heason an enhanced supplier partnership role by directly supporting Mecelec’s customers throughout the design and manufacturing process for full-scale automation projects whilst Mecelec would then fulfil a similarly close support relationship with the customer where Heason heads the project. In both cases, customer support will continue into the commissioning and life-support phase.

Recent collaboration on complete turn-key projects managed by Mecelec have included automated manufacturing systems for defence components as well as pharmaceutical packaging machinery.

Mecelec Director Neil Pearce, stated: “Whilst the collaboration is fairly new, we are already progressing on a number of important projects and the benefits for mutual support are increasingly apparent, our design and production times are faster and we look forward to more projects in the future.”

Jon Howard, Heason Technology’s Managing Director, added: “The potential benefits to our customers is full turn-key project solutions whilst Mecelec are provided access to a superior range of servo-based automation products with comprehensive technical and application support from Heason.”