A History of Denholm Rees & O'Donnell

A brief history of specialist subcontract engineers Denholm Rees & O'Donnell and C E Edwards

1. Partnership
for
Performance

2. •Two manufacturing sites
•Liverpool
•Denholm Rees & O’Donnell
•Stoke-on-Trent
•C E Edwards Engineering
Our UK Operations

3. “Working Together for
Success.”
GroupHistory
•Denholm Rees & O’Donnell established 1931 as a
precision engineering company
•Historical manufacturing partnerships with Blue
chip OEM’s since 1965
•Supplier to the Valve & Pump industry since
1970’s
•Global supplier to the Oil & Gas industry since
early 1980’s
•Acquired C E Edwards Ltd in 1995 as part of
Denholms strategic growth plan

4. “Working Together for
Success.”
Recent History
•2001 -New Senior Management Team
•2002 –New business strategies introduced
•2003 –Invested into World Class Manufacturing
through Cranfield University
•2004 –Identified the need to reinvest in plant &
equipment within the group to stay ahead of market
competition
•2005 -New management control system ‘M1’
purchased and installed
•To date our investments in both plant & equipment
have totalled over €10m across both sites and are
planned to continue into the future

5. “Working Together for
Success.”
How has this been achieved?
•Management integrated across the whole
business
•Best working practices introduced between sites
•Cellular Manufacturing Concepts
•Open book philosophy with all staff
•Bonus and Profit sharing at all levels
•Commitment to continuous improvement through
staff development
•Empowerment of complete workforce

6. “Working Together for
Success.”
What has this achieved?
•Consolidated focus of business goals
•Improved communication
•Increased capacity
•Standardisation of systems, processes and
equipment
•Improved efficiencies & costs
•Improved Customer satisfaction throughout
•Staff culture change

7. “Working Together for
Success.”
Where are we going?
•Developing Existing and new Partner relationships
to satisfy all needs
•Identifying and Developing New Markets Together
•More regular Client Interface
•Developing Long Term Agreements (LTA’s) as a
positive partnership
•Continuous improvement in cost reduction, quality
and delivery to the benefit of all
•Continuing to Invest in new plant and equipment
to completely satisfy clients future requirements

8. •Table: 1600mm x 2000mm –20T
•X –5000mm
•Y –2000mm
•Z –800mm
•W –1500mm
•B –360 °in 0.001 increments
•U –125mm
•Spindle Ø125mm
Sacem MSMG-125
Horizontal Boring and Milling
6 Axis CNC-Heidenhain TNC
430 Control

9. Sacem MSMG-125 Horizontal Boring / Milling
6 Axis CNC -Heidenhain TNC 430 Control

10. 40 International Taper Angle Head
Head Size = 99 mm
Bore Size = 100 mm (4”) Bore

11. 50 International Taper Angle Head
Head Size = 149 mm
Bore Size = 150 mm (6”) Bore

18. Pump Shaft Cell
•Pump Shaft manufacturing for over 40 years
•€3m investment since 2005
•Complete CNC Production solutions
•Special and Conventional solutions
•State of the art quality inspection procedures
•Preferred Supplier to the Industry
•NDT Partnerships with local suppliers

19. 2 x Doosan Puma
700LY Turning Centres
Max Ø = Ø850mm
Length =3200mm
2 x Doosan Puma 3100XLY
Turning Centres
Max Ø = Ø420mm
Length =2000mm

20. •Full milling capabilities
•Shorter Lead times
•ISO 50 Power Tooling
•Less operations
Turning centre benefits

21. Pump shaft precision turn & keyway
manufacture in single operation

22. ROBBI -3620 CNC
Grinding Machine
Max Ø = Ø355
Length = 2000mm

23. Conventional Machinery

24. Examples of
Pump Shafts

25. Latest inspection technology

26. Some examples of other products
we have manufactured
Volute Cases
Impellers

27. Split & Solid Bearing Housings
Machined from Solid

28. “Working Together for
Success.”
Single Volute Cases
Inner Cases
More conventional machined pump parts

30. Quality is our game

31. CMM Inspection of large components

33. How do we meet your
requirements ?
•Proven Infrastructure
•ECiM1 ERP Software
ECiM1 is a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP)
system that provides total automation of financials,
inventory, production, sales/quoting, and production
planning. The software is designed for small to midsized
firms who manufacture via repetitive, make-to-stock,
make-to-order, engineer-to-order processes.
We have worked closely with M1 over the past 8 years to
develop our own tailor made package which best suits
both ourselves and our customers needs
The system can allow for linking directly to your host to
allow a clear view of your current orders.

34. Engineering Capacity
•We have an excellent engineering department with many years
experience
•We have long established disciplines in our Quality System
which has driven our team to ensure that all aspects of the job
are well detailed at the planning stage and consideration is
given to both the tooling and inspection requirements of the
component
•All parts undergo an extensive contract review before the part
is released for manufacture, our engineers will communicate
with your own engineers to ensure the best practices are
worked to and any known traits are handed over from your
own experience
•Our M1 system allows for us to initiate and record any
engineering change requests which may occur through quality
issues or possible design change to help reduce manufacturing
costs for the future

35. Change request screen shot

36. M1 Shop Load Explorer
Shop loading & Scheduling
•Our M1 system allows us real time visibility of what capacity
we have in any department

37. M1 Scheduling Screen
Shop loading & Scheduling
•M1 further allows us to drill down to each machine and see
is loading

38. Job Analysis Screen
•Individual jobs can hen be broken down further to
allow for individual processes to be monitored

39. Stock Holding
•We can review your components to see what the most
economical batch sizes are for manufacture
•We look to see whether parts may be best part
manufactured thus allowing them to be modified into
more than one component
•Based on our findings we can make provision for holding
these parts on stock at our expense
•This can not only reduce cost and lead time but will allow
for quick delivery of spares items for aftermarket sales

40. Quality
•Denholm’s currently holds ISO 9001:2015 certification
and works to controlled documents and procedures within
that system
•To support that we have a dedicated inspection team of
highly skilled Quality Engineers
•They are equipped with the latest forms of inspection
equipment and gauges
•We currently have a large CMM with a 3.5m table which
will allow us measure your shafts in one position, as a
back up to that we also have Faro gauges which are
portable and may be taken to the job for checking
features on or around the component whilst at or on the
machine thus reducing the need to take large components
out of the machine to inspect critical features

41. Partnership for performance
Thank you for your attention