Global Upholstery Solutions Limited

We Are Upholstery

OTIF

Upholstery Production Week 19

by Leave a Comment

Obviously a short week last week with the VE Day Bank Holiday. The output was solid as ever and our OTIF remains at 100%. While it might seem that we would expect that with lower output, obviously we have furloughed staff so the output is matched by capacity. The range of products we need to deliver is still just as high so the challenge is exactly the same as it was previously. The OTIF performance is still excellent.

Products Shipped – 992

Number of different product types shipped – 31

OTIF – 100%

Click here to read more about our Commercial Upholstery services

Our 20,000 square foot upholstery factory is designed into manufacturing cells with all our processes built to make our Upholstery Production with an efficient and effective use of resources. This allows our 50-strong shop floor team to produce large quantities of high-quality products in short lead times and deliver on time, every time.

Each cell includes CNC fabric cutting, adhesive spraying for foam, multiple sewing machines and machinists, multiple upholstery benches and quality inspection, packing and despatch benches.

Our team are multi-skilled and experienced so that one day we could be making 1500 identical theatre seats, the next we could make a single banquette seat. Our process is designed to adapt to whatever our customers need from us as we don’t make any of our own products – everything we make is for our business customers that need highly reliable deliveries of a range of products.

Upholstery Production Week 18

by Leave a Comment

A run of the mill week, last week. A full set of products to our sister company supplying healthcare, including some additional face visors. All delivered on time as usual.

The period with furloughed employees has become quite normal now, although some of our customers have now reopened which may change our situation very quickly.

On another note, our design agency, blackswan has released yet another design called PopSchema which we happily manufactured for them. See more about PopSchema here https://blackswancreative.co.uk/popschema/

Products Shipped – 1129

Number of different product types shipped – 45

OTIF – 100%

Click here to read more about our Commercial Upholstery services

Our 20,000 square foot upholstery factory is designed into manufacturing cells with all our processes built to make our Upholstery Production with an efficient and effective use of resources. This allows our 50-strong shop floor team to produce large quantities of high-quality products in short lead times and deliver on time, every time.

Each cell includes CNC fabric cutting, adhesive spraying for foam, multiple sewing machines and machinists, multiple upholstery benches and quality inspection, packing and despatch benches.

Our team are multi-skilled and experienced so that one day we could be making 1500 identical theatre seats, the next we could make a single banquette seat. Our process is designed to adapt to whatever our customers need from us as we don’t make any of our own products – everything we make is for our business customers that need highly reliable deliveries of a range of products.

Upholstery Production Week 17

by Leave a Comment

A greater number of products moved last week with the longer week, but still obviously low while we’re in the midst of the furlough. The range of products was also quite high.

The team is still working hard and have even managed to do some development work for our design agency blackswan.

As ever, despite furlough, we are still maintaining 100% OTIF and customer enquiries are picking back up, albeit slowly. We are even seeing enquiries from new customers, which is encouraging and testament to our reliability in these difficult times. We’ve received a lot of good feedback and gratitude by supporting existing customers with new products at short notice because their current supplier is shut down.

Products Shipped – 1675

Number of different product types shipped – 60

OTIF – 100%

Click here to read more about our Commercial Upholstery services

Our 20,000 square foot upholstery factory is designed into manufacturing cells with all our processes built to make our Upholstery Production with an efficient and effective use of resources. This allows our 50-strong shop floor team to produce large quantities of high-quality products in short lead times and deliver on time, every time.

Each cell includes CNC fabric cutting, adhesive spraying for foam, multiple sewing machines and machinists, multiple upholstery benches and quality inspection, packing and despatch benches.

Our team are multi-skilled and experienced so that one day we could be making 1500 identical theatre seats, the next we could make a single banquette seat. Our process is designed to adapt to whatever our customers need from us as we don’t make any of our own products – everything we make is for our business customers that need highly reliable deliveries of a range of products.

Upholstery Production Week 16

by Leave a Comment

On an even shorter week – 3 1/2 days – with a few holidays thrown in for good measure, the output quantity was low, but the OTIF was still 100%

Although it might seem that this should be easy with such a low output, when we have so many staff furloughed, this is still an excellent performance. The team is being incredibly flexible in how they are working and supporting each other.

As part of this week’s figures we shipped over 300 of our V2.0 Visors for our front line staff who are still having to work and visit sites to keep essential lifts and stairlifts operational.

Safety VisorProducts Shipped – 1038

Number of different product types shipped – 34

OTIF – 100%

Click here to read more about our Commercial Upholstery services

Our 20,000 square foot upholstery factory is designed into manufacturing cells with all our processes built to make our Upholstery Production with an efficient and effective use of resources. This allows our 50-strong shop floor team to produce large quantities of high-quality products in short lead times and deliver on time, every time.

Each cell includes CNC fabric cutting, adhesive spraying for foam, multiple sewing machines and machinists, multiple upholstery benches and quality inspection, packing and despatch benches.

Our team are multi-skilled and experienced so that one day we could be making 1500 identical theatre seats, the next we could make a single banquette seat. Our process is designed to adapt to whatever our customers need from us as we don’t make any of our own products – everything we make is for our business customers that need highly reliable deliveries of a range of products.

Upholstery Production Week 15

by Leave a Comment

A great performance in the short week last week, including 73 Face Visors delivered for our Stairlifts factories.  Obviously with so many of our team on furlough and with the short week, we’re pleased at our performance last week which was actually higher in products than the full week before.

upholstery production

Products Shipped – 1287

Number of different product types shipped – 53

OTIF – 100%

Click here to read more about our Commercial Upholstery services

Our 20,000 square foot upholstery factory is designed into manufacturing cells with all our processes built to make our Upholstery Production with an efficient and effective use of resources. This allows our 50-strong shop floor team to produce large quantities of high-quality products in short lead times and deliver on time, every time.

Each cell includes CNC fabric cutting, adhesive spraying for foam, multiple sewing machines and machinists, multiple upholstery benches and quality inspection, packing and despatch benches.

Our team are multi-skilled and experienced so that one day we could be making 1500 identical theatre seats, the next we could make a single banquette seat. Our process is designed to adapt to whatever our customers need from us as we don’t make any of our own products – everything we make is for our business customers that need highly reliable deliveries of a range of products.

Upholstery Production Week 14

by Leave a Comment

On the 01 April we furloughed some staff as order volume has obviously dropped in these difficult times. This will of course be reflected in the volume of work we are shipping, although our team is definitely punching above its weight in terms of output from those who are still working. As stated before, but it bears repeating, we supply into healthcare so we will remain open throughout.

We even had a little bit of time in the run up to carry out a bit of upholstery prep training for our frame assembly team as we thought we might need a bit of cross-skilling in time to come!

The team did a great job last week and has not only retained our 100% record but also improved on our JIT record (Just in Time) from our largest customer who has a slightly more aggressive measure than simple On Time In Full.

Products Shipped – 1236

Number of different product types shipped – 59

OTIF – 100%

Click here to read more about our Commercial Upholstery services

Our 20,000 square foot upholstery factory is designed into manufacturing cells with all our processes built to make our Upholstery Production with an efficient and effective use of resources. This allows our 50-strong shop floor team to produce large quantities of high-quality products in short lead times and deliver on time, every time.

Each cell includes CNC fabric cutting, adhesive spraying for foam, multiple sewing machines and machinists, multiple upholstery benches and quality inspection, packing and despatch benches.

Our team are multi-skilled and experienced so that one day we could be making 1500 identical theatre seats, the next we could make a single banquette seat. Our process is designed to adapt to whatever our customers need from us as we don’t make any of our own products – everything we make is for our business customers that need highly reliable deliveries of a range of products.