http://www.au.planit.com/ Planit News Feed en-us Copyright 2010 Planit http://www.au.planit.com/rss/newsfeed/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:21:28 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/images/PlanitLogo.jpg http://www.au.planit.com/ Production at Windsor Kitchens has become 50 per cent faster, with a near-doubling of overall efficiency, since installing new design and manufacturing software and a flatbed router. The busy cabinet maker in Moolap, Geelong, was struggling to keep up with a heavy workload, but is now handling the work with ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/147#Story147 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:02:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/147#Story147 The nesting capabilities of Planit software are saving both time and materials for metal fabrication company Associated Projects and cabinet making company Associated Designcraft, who share premises in Dandenong South.  Associated Projects is benefiting from the big productivity and metal utilisation gains of Planit’s Radan, while its sister company employing ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/146#Story146 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:31:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/146#Story146 When Tony Sahyoun, proprietor of Mathews Kitchens, chose a CNC machine to automate his cutting, he understood the crucial importance of installing a compatible software package to complement it. He estimates the CNC machine and Cabinet Builder software have together boosted productivity at Mathews Kitchens by 60-70 per cent. The company ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/145#Story145 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:02:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/145#Story145 Custom joinery company DG & AM Bernard of Willow Tree, near Tamworth, has found the Solid Design program from software provider Planit to be an excellent marketing tool that is helping the company win more business. “It has made our presentations to clients so much easier and better, probably improving our ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/144#Story144 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:54:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/144#Story144 New Zealand cabinet making companies are getting great results from comprehensive management software that allows them to quote accurately, track jobs through the factory and integrate with existing design software. These businesses are using Manager, an Australasian product that was developed for the woodworking industry after being created in partnership with ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/143#Story143 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:49:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/143#Story143 Manny Koum, proprietor of McKinnon Cabinets, had never used a computer before when he made the bold jump into computer-aided design and manufacturing at his Darwin factory. The workshop had been drawing everything by hand and cutting on a panel saw before installing Planit’s Solid Manufacturing software and a flatbed router. “We ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/142#Story142 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:48:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/142#Story142 Cabinet making company The Sellers Room can prepare accurate quotes and track all its jobs as they progress through the factory since adopting comprehensive management software. The manufacturer which focuses on commercial fit outs, implemented Planit’s Manager in 2008, finding it “a fantastic product”. The company had previously used a number ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/141#Story141 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:40:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/141#Story141 Kitchen Creators of Paraparaumu and New Plymouth, New Zealand purchased Manager software to find a better way of tracking cost and time, and to have better analysis tools. “The Manager system is user-friendly and very comprehensive. We’ve customised the reports and quotes to work for us,” said Kitchen Creators co-proprietor ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/140#Story140 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:34:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/140#Story140 Kitchen company starts manufacturing on best foot with design software Mick Squires had successfully used Planit woodworking software at his previous employment, so when he joined Artform Kitchens of Gosford, NSW, it was natural that he should want to implement the program there too. “It’s a fantastic product for both design ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/62#Story62 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:56:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/62#Story62 No work, and the client couldn’t be happier Those that know us in the marketplace would be well aware of how strongly we believe in ‘nested based manufacturing’ and how efficiently this can run any cabinet making business.  Sometimes strange occurrences lend support to this argument. For instance, the employees of one ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/61#Story61 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:50:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/61#Story61 Overtime turns into spare time with Nested Based Manufacture When the whirr of machinery and the buzzing of saws can be heard at a factory in the evening hours it could be assumed that a successful business is at work meeting yet another crisis deadline for a client.  On the other hand ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/60#Story60 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:44:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/60#Story60 Renovation industry demands trigger upgrade in supply chain. The explosion in home renovating across the eastern seaboard has had a positive effect on the entire supply chain; to the point where some manufacturers made significant upgrades to ensure technologically their business meets demand.  With developers and contractors looking to shave costs from ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/59#Story59 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:38:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/59#Story59 Ordering Kitchens Online Some of our customer base - particularly in New South Wales and Queensland - may well remember Cameron Cox from a few years ago when he worked at Solspec.  For quite some time, Cameron had been talking about setting up a business using ‘nested based manufacturing’ that takes customers’ ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/58#Story58 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:33:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/58#Story58 The Total Solution In the wholesale kitchen manufacture business, a major reason for any trepidation may be due to a lack skilled cabinet makers in this country – a symptom of the overall depreciation in the numbers of skilled trades people.  None of this deterred The Timberworks. Based on the NSW Central ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/57#Story57 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:27:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/57#Story57 Cabinet Vision eliminates human errors Regardless of the skill level of individual cabinet makers, each and every one has the potential to make an untimely human error. When customisation is a key ingredient of the business, this exponentially increases the impact of human error.  This is what Tasker Joinery in Sydney thought ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/56#Story56 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:20:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/56#Story56 Impala looks for ongoing success Impala is one of the best known companies in the kitchen cabinet market. It employs a team of awardwinning designers to create unique kitchens for private domestic clients.  All the company’s kitchens are custom built and crafted without modular or standard size cabinets, and Planit software is ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/55#Story55 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:12:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/55#Story55 Boosting Turnover. It is always positive to hear clients anticipate turnover boost after installing our software.  H&H Cabinets at Burwood, Melbourne, chose Planit because it needed flexibility and versatility with its new CNC cutting machinery. Its clients range from private customers to larger scale developments. So the investment in Planit software at ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/54#Story54 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:06:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/54#Story54 38% More Throughput with Half the staff Curfew Cabinets are now reaping the rewards from their decision to embrace nested based manufacturing through the implementation of Cabinet Vision Solid Manufacturing supplied by Planit WA.  Roland and Dennes Van Zelst attended a nesting Seminar conducted by Planit WA at Master Cabinets last year. ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/53#Story53 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:39:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/53#Story53 Simplicity..it all comes don to CabinetVision. Living in a society that demands customisation puts pressure on fabricators of all types of products to find ways to best facilitate this. Out of all the industrial disciplines, it is arguably kitchen manufacturers who have faced this market demand for longer than most. Greater manufacturing ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/52#Story52 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:35:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/52#Story52 Customers See Their Designs Come To Life. We constantly remind ourselves of the strides made by industry in utilising 3D software capabilities to design and fabricate. Yet in this day and age of the consumer market, 3D visualisation is also a very strong selling tool – as has been demonstrated by ... http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/51#Story51 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:16:00 GMT http://www.au.planit.com/news/casestudies/51#Story51