Improving Efficiency and Customer Service

For over 30 years, TFP have been a leading global manufacturer of nonwovens.

Overview

With a core line of advanced materials used in demanding applications such as automotive, aerospace and fire engineering, material quality, consistency, certified conformance and adherence to set specifications are all vital to Technical Fibre Products (TFP). Certifying conformance is complicated due to the huge range of source materials, blends, thicknesses and weights. In addition differing monitoring criteria are required by a varied set of end-users. 

These customers often demand exceptionally close conformity to specification and timely production of data to ensure the integrity of their own production. Prior to QiSOFT installation, the company largely used manual processes for data gathering and interpretation.This procedure involved a substantial commitment of skilled manpower to a tedious and largely unrewarding task. A structured and objective approach was essential in order to find a suitable solution that would not only work for TFP but also its site neighbour James Cropper. With a clearly ranked statement of requirements members of the IT department, quality assurance teams and operators were involved in the final decision and it was agreed that the QIS system not only met all current needs but also offered scope to keep pace with future developments.