Practice hitherto
In tandem with the aforementioned endeavours to cut down on components, schemes have also been thought up that pay added attention to a system’s capacity for continuous functioning. For both technical and practical reasons, however, such initiatives are fraught with difficulties. A number of fittings have been marketed that contain a wealth of individual parts which have to be successively assembled and meticulously matched in what is a very complex process. During market research activities, FSB counted up to seventeen separate parts needing to be “managed” during the assembly process. Said parts are supplied in no fewer than eight different product bags in some cases.
Our solution
It takes less time to fit an AGL® set by FSB and have it ready to operate than it does, with some products by our fellow-competitors, to work out what parts do what and how they are to be assembled, or even to get them out of their wrapping.
Second-generation AGL® rose furniture still comprises a female and a male side – just as you’ve always been used to from FSB. Now, however, you no longer need to fiddle about with individual parts: all components are firmly united in the two halfsets. Assembling these simply involves removing them from their packaging, joining them through the door and securing them with a quick 40° twist of the AGL® tool. The process is the same for handles and escutcheons. The whole assembly routine takes less than 10 seconds. Step-by-step assembly of components and bases or the final clipping-on of top roses are things of the past.
All such assembly steps are performed by FSB at its works in Brakel. Thus, FSB yields value added from which fabricators in particular can directly profit. The assembly process is considerably speeded up. Not only does this raise the daily output of hardware assemblers on site, it also allows for a far greater degree of flexibility in contractors’ costings – up to and including a considerably more flexible capacity for planning the rostering of assemblers.
You are sure to quickly appreciate the economic benefit this, too, entails. But as if all that weren’t enough, there are a lot more easy-grasp benefits inside the AGL® system.