Short-run production project on the Dyss X5 at CCC
To enable short production runs for rapid delivery, the Corrugated Case Company installed a Dyss X5-1630 digital die-cutter supplied by AG/CAD.
Chesterfield-based CCC invested in a 680 pallet, 13,000sq/ft distribution warehouse, a new, large format multi point gluing machine, an ink filtration system, and a Dyss digital die-cutter.
‘Our expansion has given us greater capacity and therefore we need to produce considerably more samples,’ explained Tony Hession, CCC chairman. ‘We could see how PoS and digital print companies were applying digital cutting to small production run scenarios and we believed we could apply this model to our business.’
The new cutter, which arrived in March 2017, is ‘at least three times faster than the previous machine and we are now seeing a similar increase in the number of samples produced each week,’ according to CCC senior designer Martin Higginbottom. Blade changes are now only required ‘every few weeks,’ he reported, and ‘the 1.6 by 3m bed is far bigger than the previous machine. This allows us to set up and cut multiple samples from a single large sheet, saving us even more time and effort.’
The X5-1630 has also been adopted for short production runs, as the CCC team had envisaged.
‘Prior to purchasing the Dyss from AG/CAD, we approached our flat-pack customers asking if they would pay a premium for short production runs with immediate delivery schedules but with no tooling costs,’ said Mr Hession. ‘We also pitched it as a service that would help customers in the eventuality that they may have placed orders with incorrect quantities or delivery schedules, or just needed urgent production capacity. This added-value service was met with resounding support and justified our purchase of the Dyss.’
