Optimal leaf spring for retail lighting developed in tight timeframe
In a project characterized by close cooperation, flexibility and shortage of time, Lesjöfors has produced leaf springs for lighting specialist Fagerhult. The springs are now used in lighting solutions for one of the world´s biggest clothes chains.
Lesjöfors was contacted in mid-November 2012 by Fagerhult. Fagerhult is a leading European supplier of professional lighting solutions. One of Fagerhult´s core business areas is development and production of lighting solutions for retail environments. The company was about to win one of their biggest deals ever with one of the largest clothing trade groups in the world, which among others include a chain store for women clothes. Fagerhult´s request was to get the right leaf springs needed to install the lighting of the shelving systems in the stores.
Different types of leaf springs was therefore designed and produced under severe time pressure from the customer. Since Lesjöfors had an earlier successful cooperation with another business area in the Fagerhult group, the engineers from Fagerhult turned to Lesjöfors.
Working closely resulted in fast production
Lesjöfors´ manufacturing unit in Vällingby (Lesjöfors Stockholm Fjäder) helped the customer to design the leaf springs so that function and production would work optimally. Close cooperation between Fagerhult´s contact persons and Lesjöfors´ technicians and production staff contributed to a rapid process.
"We got the opportunity to produce initial samples and pre-production of all leaf springs in the project. Several variations of the initial samples were produced and on more than one occasion we could have springs delivered to the customer less than 48 hours after agreeing on the spring design", says Mikael Hägglund, Technical Sales at Lesjöfors in Vällingby.
New demanding solution delivered
In late December, Fagerhult got instructions from their customer to re-design one spring since an integrated security solution had to be added. Despite the limited space that was available a good solution was developed and manufactured and Lesjöfors produced three different prototypes for testing. Also these were delivered within 48 hours to the end customer.
"Lesjöfors succeeded, despite the extremely demanding time frame and the minimal space, to deliver a solution that met all the requirements from our customer.
We are very pleased and impressed with the flexibility, speed and high service level that Lesjöfors has shown us throughout this project, says Thomas Johansson", On-Demand Designer at Fagerhult.
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