Assembly and testing has an important role to play at Gelan Hydraulics

The assembly workshop has an important role to play at Gelan. Partly because all of Gelan’s pumps and motors are assembled, but also because they are responsible for all the tests that are conducted.

The PU pump assembly workshop consists of five people and oil pump assembly workshop consists of seven people. The tempo is often high, depending primarily on how many orders are released and have to be delivered. Every morning, staff gather for a review of what is to be delivered during the day. The workshop manager is responsible for staffing, capacity planning and the release of work orders. Staff rotate between the different workstations, giving them all broad-based competence and increasing flexibility in the department.

Always deliver on time

It’s important to maintain close collaboration with both back office and packing/dispatch so that, for example, we get information about any order that has priority and has to be delivered during the day. Even if things sometimes go wrong, we usually solve it somehow, because everyone in the department is incredibly focused on keeping to the delivery times we’ve promised. It’s not unusual for staff to come in and work on a Saturday, just to make sure that deliveries get away on time.

Final testing and quality

All pumps and motors that Gelan manufactures are tested before delivery. In addition to this, there are continuous random checks on production in order to guarantee quality. These involve the product undergoing a test program in which there are measurements of, among other things, flow and efficiency (both volumetric and mechanical), as well as flux loss at different speeds and pressure levels.

We pressure-test all pumps and motors, after which all test results are saved in a database. As all pumps and motors have a unique serial number, they can then easily be traced.