Proof from the shop floor.

Every one of these started with an engineering team under pressure.

Stores nobody trusted, a drive nobody could find, a purchasing inbox full of the same low value orders. Each study below sets out how we found the site, what we put in place and what the team reports now.

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Featured case study

Food Manufacturing

Managed stores that stopped the daily consumable hunt

A Lancashire food manufacturer was losing engineering hours to missing consumables and duplicated stock. A managed stores, run and replenished by Rowlec, gave the team one reliable point of supply.

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Zero

Line stoppages caused by missing consumables since go live

One order

Consolidated replenishment in place of ad hoc urgent purchases

Fewer lines

Duplicate and obsolete stock removed by rationalisation

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Automotive

Critical spares on the shelf before they fail

A tier one automotive supplier could not risk a press line waiting months for a long-lead-time drive. Rowlec now holds the critical spares, called off against an agreed stock profile.

Same day

Replacement press feed drive on site, against a lead time in months
Consignment

Critical spares held by Rowlec until the customer calls them off
One shift

Recovery the maintenance team reported, rather than a shutdown

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Plastics & Packaging

Bins refilled before anyone has to ask

A plastics processor was raising a constant stream of low value purchase orders for consumables. Vendor managed inventory moved replenishment to Rowlec and gave procurement its week back.

Zero

Purchase orders raised by the customer for programme lines
One invoice

Consolidated billing in place of a stream of low value orders
Standardised

Glove and abrasive ranges reduced to a common site range

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Packaging Machinery

An obsolete drive found before the rebuild bill landed

A packaging operation faced a full control system rebuild when an obsolete inverter failed. Rowlec sourced a genuine unit worldwide and kept the line in production.

Retrofit avoided

Line restored on its original control platform, upgrade planned into a shutdown
Genuine unit

Correct drive revision located through worldwide sourcing
Held in stock

A second drive now carried on the customer's behalf

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We keep our customers anonymous. Sites are described by sector and region only, and every outcome on these pages is as reported to us by the customer.

Where we work

The same job on
every kind of site.

These stories come from food, automotive and packaging plants. The products change from site to site. The problem, keeping a line running with the right part on the shelf, rarely does.

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