Compressed Air Best Practices - October 2008 - (Page 30) | 10/08 Compressed Air Industry AUTOMOTIVE TRANSIT | H E A V Y- D U T Y A I R C O M P R E S S O R S : D E VA I R , I N C . Describe Devair’s manufacturing capabilities. We have a 45,000-square-foot facility with 40 employees based here in Barrie, Ontario. The employees range in seniority from six months to 45 years of service. Seventy-five percent (75%) of our employees in the machine shop are veterans with more than 20 years of service. This is the core of our company and compressor technology. In this cell, we machine components for our piston and rotary screw compressor product lines. For the piston compressors, we machine the crankcases, cylinder heads, connecting rods, cylinders and valves, to name some major items. We have two distinct assembly areas in the facility. One area is assembling piston compressor heads (pumps) and the other is assembling finished product. One of the strengths of our people is their flexibility — we do a lot of cross training and as a result, people are skilled at operating in different cells. This flexibility has allowed Devair to train our people on how to assemble many different products. Other work cells include our electronic control panel assembly and a paint shop for the receiver tanks. Can you share some of Devair’s history and culture with us? The roots of Devair go back to the early 1900s when we were a part of the DeVilbiss Company of Toledo. DeVilbiss formed an industrial air compressor division and moved it, in 1954, to Barrie, Ontario. This is why Seventy-five percent of the employees in the machine shop are skilled veterans with more than 20 years of experience. 30 www.airbestpractices.com http://www.airbestpractices.com
For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.