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Significant collaboration with Kongsberg

admin9844 — Tue, 09 May 2023 09:36:03 +0000

Significant collaboration with Kongsberg

The overall common goal is to take care of the soldiers in the best possible way, when Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace (KONSGBERG) and RIVAL collaborate on the weapons station productions.

It requires outstanding quality and documentation to produce critical and costly components for KONGSBERG’s Remote Weapon System (RWS). If something goes wrong, it has big consequences. In the extreme, it can cost human lives.

“Good enough” does not count
RIVAL has invested millions in equipment, employees and procedures in order to meet KONGSBERG’s requirements and expectations. “An important element in being successful is that our employees go to work with the right attitude and the right skills,” project manager Flemming Hansen says.

“They know that ‘good enough’ does not count for our customers. The requirements are extensive, and we work every day with great fervour to fulfil them. We know, it makes a difference for both our customers, our job satisfaction and, in the end, for the Danish soldiers out in the field.”

Production at the DMG MORI Centre
In the production hall, RIVAL’s DMG MORI DMU 75 and DMU 65 with a PH cell are the focal point of the collaboration with KONGSBERG. RIVAL’s CNC expert Jakob Koch Pedersen has the overall responsibility here.

“We have invested over DDK 8 million in new equipment to be properly geared for the collaboration with KONGSBERG,” he says. “We have structured the work so that all start-ups and run-ins takes place on the DMU 75. Then, the production is moved to the DMU 65 with the PH cell (Pallet Handling system) and runs around the clock. By thinking in terms of entire weapon systems, we have streamlined the collaboration. We produce all the critical components for one weapon station at a time, get it packed down and prepared for delivery.”

Quality and documentation
At KONGSBERG, they are extremely satisfied with their collaboration with RIVAL. The customer praises RIVAL’s control on quality, subcontractors and documentation.”25% of the time we work for KONGSBERG is spent on quality control and documentation,” production manager Flemming Hansen says. “We carry out full measurements of all references on the customer’s drawings, we have control over certificates and sub-suppliers and must document the whole thing for the customer. In the future, we will have more customers with precisely these requirements and are continuously working to become even sharper at solving this type of task.”

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RIVAL supplies the smoke caste system to Leopard 2 tanks

admin9844 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:38:27 +0000

RIVAL supplies the smoke caste system to Leopard 2 tanks

Top-shelf quality and delivery ability is a must in the defense industry and in RIVAL’s collaboration with German Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co (KMW). The collaboration currently revolves around the production of the smoke caste system to Leopard 2 tanks.

There is a lot at stake when collaborating with customers in the defense industry. “If we fail to deliver the highest quality, it can have catastrophic consequences. It’s about life or death,” RIVAL’s CCO and partner Christian Aarup says. “Our employees know how important it is to focus 100 percent on quality and delivery on time. They make a huge effort to solve all tasks to the letter.”

The right equipment for complex productions
The two experienced industrial technicians Lene Kruse Jensen and Jakob Koch Pedersen both have a big responsibility in making sure that everything goes as planned when producing the parts for the Leopard 2 tanks. Respectively, they operate on the Mazak FH-8800 and on the DMG MORI DMU 65 with an associated PH cell.

“The combination of the right employees and the right equipment is a prerequisite for us to succeed in delivering exactly what has been agreed with the customer,” Christian says.

“That’s why we have invested millions in our industry’s wildest equipment. At the same time, we work hard to develop our processes and procedures further in order to top-tune our entire internal value chain. Our production set-up today works with extreme stability and precision.”

Joint development on common goals
For a number of years, RIVAL has put partnerships on the agenda in relation to both customers and suppliers. “We have often talked about valuable collaborations, but partnerships are more than that,” Christian says. “They commit in a different way, demand respect and orderliness – and give unique results.”

“Our partnership with KMW is a proof of that,” he says. “By playing with open cards on both sides of the table, we have significantly better prerequisites to meet KMW’s future demands on capacity and competences. It provides a unique basis for continuing the development of the collaboration, which both the customer and we greatly appreciate.”

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RIVAL goes all in in the partnership with a leading robot manufacturer

admin9844 — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:42:38 +0000

RIVAL goes all in in the partnership with a leading robot manufacturer

A strong set-up with three identical DMG Mori CLX 450 TC machining plants with attached robots forms the basis for completely new development opportunities for RIVAL’s collaboration with one of the world’s leading robot manufacturer.

It takes hard work to keep track with RIVAL’s customers. Several of them are growing fast, thus continuously increasing their order book at RIVAL. In that process, a close and transparent partnership makes a crucial difference. RIVAL is ready to grow with the customers and continuously optimise both the organisation and the machinery so they meet with the demands of the future.

We must be invulnerable
RIVAL’s latest investment in three identical DMG Mori CLX 450 TC machines with associated robot cells is a really good example of that.
“It is crucial for our customers that we always deliver on time and in the quantity, they need. Therefore, we must do everything to be invulnerable. And we will be with three identical set-ups,” says Allan RIVALs CNC-expert.

A good alternative to dual source
Some companies choose a dual source strategy to achieve that invulnerability – with the increased resources and costs it provides to implement and maintain multiple relationships. “Our good customer in the robotics industry (and others) can now avoid that. With our new setup, we can produce critical and costly components during the day and serial produce components for our good customer in the robotics industry in the evenings and during the weekends,” Christian Aarup says. “Also, we have better room for breakdowns or technical services on our machines, as we have the opportunity to run the production on one of the other machines with a completely identical set-up.”

Partnership and proactivity give great benefits
The close collaborations between customers, suppliers and RIVAL make it possible for RIVAL to act proactively and be ready to meet the customer’s needs, when they arise. “This requires that we know the customer so well that they will share, for example, their forecast with us, so we know what they want from us half a year ahead,” Henrik Holvad says. “We are very honoured to have these close partnerships with many of our customers, because it requires investment and openness from both sides. And the gain is noticeable.”

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RIVAL has signed a multi-year agreement with the American Defense

admin9844 — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 09:31:00 +0000

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RIVAL’s customers in the defence industry place great demands on RIVAL’s employees and machines. Just now, RIVAL has signed a multi-year agreement with a customer to produce components to the armoured Stryker vehicle used in the American Defense.

RIVAL’s new 17 tons DMG MORI NTX 2500 machine works with extreme stability and precision. It works around the clock unmanned with the KUKA robot from QRS.

After several weeks of implementation, the DMG MORI machine and the KUKA robot from Quality Robot Systems (QRS) are now ready to produce critical and costly components with particularly high tolerances to the armoured Stryker vehicle. It happens during evenings and nights only monitored by one employee.

Four parts invent a new production set up
The preparatory work to the production of the components to the Stryker vehicle was initiated several month ago in an innovative collaboration between RIVAL, DMG MORI, the tool manufacturer Seco Tools and QRS. Previously, the components had to go through two turning and milling operations. Now, in the new setup with the DMG MORI machine and the KUKA robot, the entire production is carried out in one fixing. This reduces the time spent as well as the risk of errors.

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Reduces the need of quality control
The DMG MORI machine is very special. Due to its weight and size as well as its build-in cooling system, the machine operates with extreme precision – even at many repetitions.

“Extreme precision is an essential element when we have to comply with demanding tolerances over a long production period,” foremann Glenn Scharling says. “Thus, it provides a great advantage in serial productions of complex components to the armoured Stryker and is supported by the machine’s ability to both turn and mill in one fixing.”

Significant streamlining of the production
With the new set-up, both RIVAL and DMG expect to be able to reduce the production time by half. “Since we can avoid having components waiting on pallets before the next operation, the production process is streamlined significantly,” Henrik Holvad says. “It also reduces the risk of errors and streamlines the process of control measuring tolerances in our Zeiss measurement machine. So, we can offer our customers in the defense industry a really good deal, which is also the reason why, we entered into this new agreement.”

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Wärtsilä supply boat, Norway

admin9844 — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:44:34 +0000

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RIVAL ind på det norske marked

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The Norwegian engine supplier Wartsila increasingly demand RIVAL’s skills in machining operations. This is primarily due to the creativity, skills and efficiency of RIVAL’s staff. A supply ship runs into a pier and has to dock at the Polish port of Szczecin.

Norway is notified and Wartsila’s office has to locate a new spare part as quickly as possible. Shortly after, an e-mail arrives in Benny Soerensen’s inbox at RIVAL with an order for a piston rod. “It had to be done in no time. It costs a lot of money to have a supply ship lying idle. At the same time as they sent the e-mail with the drawings, they shipped the raw material from Norway.
We received that on Tuesday,” says Mr Soerensen, who is the sales manager at RIVAL with responsibility for “difficult” tasks. Staff at RIVAL completed the job in 72 hours. On Friday morning, a special transport service could ship the spare part to Poland, where it was fitted to allow the ship back at sea.

Competitive Denmark
RIVAL is well on the way to conquer the Norwegian offshore market, which is short of companies offering machining operations. Danish companies are known for being flexible and innovative. The relocation of many manufacturing operations to countries with lower costs has forced Danish companies to do things differently.

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“Our employees are very conscious of looking for the easiest way to solve a task. This allows us to compete on both time and price.
We have been forced to hange the way we operate because demand has changed. We tell our staff that it is all about the end – not the means – and that we count on our people to achieve the optimum result,” says Mr Soerensen, who has often experienced that Norwegian companies send the special material required for the manufacture of specific items to Denmark, whereupon RIVAL manufactures the item and returns it.

The shipping costs are high, but it shows how great the eed is. “In future, we will probably consider stocking the special stainless steel materials for the offshore industry so we can become even more competitive.”

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Dan-Web Machinery

admin9844 — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 11:42:32 +0000

Shared understanding behind the valuable exchange and sounding out of ideas

Machinery manufacturer Dan-Web Machinery A/S has collaborated with RIVAL for over ten years. The valuable collaboration is built on good chemistry, shared understanding and the profitable exchange and sounding out of ideas.

It is a Tuesday morning, and RIVAL employees have driven to Galten, to visit machinery manufacturer Dan-Web at its 10,000 m2 industrial facility. Dan-Web Machinery A/S develops and manufactures machinery and equipment for the manufacture of airlaid products, which are soft and absorbing nonwoven materials, which are included in products like diapers and sanitary towels. The company has over 39 years of experience and throughout its existence, it has focused extensively on innovative, quality solutions.

Excellent collaboration
I meet with two engineers, Kenn Brown Petersen and Morten Pouli-Rich from Dan-Web and project manager Benny Sørensen from RIVAL’s production engineering department. It is immediately apparent that there is good chemistry between the three men. RIVAL has now been an established partner for Dan-Web for over ten years, and there is room for small talk. However, the
talk is primarily about the actual joint project, where RIVAL is manufacturing parts for Dan-Web’s forming head, which shall be supplied on a new Forming Line to the USA.

Shared understanding
We take a walk around the production area together and the discussion becomes animated, while Kenn and Morten explain in an engaged manner about the machines and components we pass along the way. It is clearly apparent that RIVAL’s many years of collaboration with Dan-Web has meant they have built up a very good knowledge of their products, and the parties have a shared understanding of what Dan-Web wants the end result to be for their customers. “At RIVAL, it’s an important factor for us that when we provide proposals for the optimisation of the technical production of their products, that we have precisely this
thorough knowledge, and thus can bring input which is precisely spot on at Dan-Web and supports their line,” says Benny.

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Valuable exchange and sounding out of ideas
The two Dan-Web designers also believe that it is a great advantage that RIVAL is very familiar with their products and company. “If we have a design or technical production challenge, and we assess that getting RIVAL’s input would be beneficial, they love to meet up, and meet up quickly to exchange and sound out ideas. We have often had visits by Glenn, Ole and Benny from RIVAL and received valuable ideas about how we can optimise a design,” says Kenn, while we look closer at several of the hammer mills being worked on in the production area. We halt next to several large rollers with a paper-like material, which is currently being beaten to single fibres in the hammer mill before being blown into the forming head and further processed for the final airlaid products.

Improvement proposal
“At the same time,” Morten adds. “We also find that without even being asked, RIVAL will come to us with proposals for improvements, if they for example in their production process, come across a design or tolerance that can be changed beneficially. We’re very open to their proposals, since we constantly work with the optimisation and improvement of our products. And because they know us so well, they know what direction we want to take the development process in.”

Thank you for today
The tour of production is about to finish, and Kenn, Morten and Benny agree, right at the end before Benny returns to RIVAL, to brief production on the details, which have been agreed on at Dan-Web Machinery A/S.

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