{"id":1797,"date":"2021-05-21T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pactuell.com\/en\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2021-11-26T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T13:22:16","slug":"saved-by-the-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pactuell.com\/en\/saved-by-the-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved by the bell!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s one of those images that will prob\u00adably feature in the rundown of top news stories for years to come, if not decades: the giant container ship \u201cEver Given\u201d grounded and lodged side\u00adways in the Suez Canal. At the end of March, this colossal vessel blocked the vital ship\u00adping route between the Mediter\u00adranean and the Red Sea for six long days, causing a traffic jam of 422 ships \u2013 and making some colleagues in Germany and China break out in a sweat.<\/p>\n

Because at that very same time, our Uhlmann line, comprising the BLU 200, C 200, S 500 and ECP 12, was making its way to the China National Phar\u00adma\u00adceu\u00adtical Machinery Expo\u00adsi\u00adtion (CIPM) in Qingdao where a live demo was sched\u00aduled for the expo visi\u00adtors between May 10 and 12. The ship carrying the containers with our precious cargo was not stuck in the Suez Canal. But because it could not get through, it had to take a detour around the whole of Africa \u2013 a route that cost two whole weeks.<\/p>\n

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A few days before the opening of the fair, the line arrives in China.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Now it's time to get going ...<\/p><\/div>\n

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... with combined forces ...<\/p><\/div>\n

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... and a direct line to Laupheim.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the end, the booth and the line are up and running as planned.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The line in action impresses the audi\u00adence at the CIPM.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The efforts of our colleagues from Uhlmann China have paid off.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Arrived at the port in the nick of time<\/h4>\n

A few days before the trade fair opened, the ship arrived in China. But the journey was not over yet: the line still had to go through customs, and this normally takes a few days. But the team from Uhlmann China had prepared every\u00adthing under the strong support from the orga\u00adnizer so perfectly that we got the complete line through customs within just a day.<\/p>\n

But in a year still grap\u00adpling with coro\u00adn\u00adavirus, there was precious little time to relax: Normally, fitters from Laupheim will travel to a trade show to install a new line. However, due to the pandemic, the service tech\u00adni\u00adcians from Uhlmann China were trained online instead, and promptly demon\u00adstrated their newly won exper\u00adtise: with the help of instruc\u00adtions, photo docu\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion, and the liter\u00adally tire\u00adless efforts of their colleagues from Laupheim over the phone, they assem\u00adbled the machines of the new line, some of which had been disman\u00adtled, within three and a half days. Marketing, product manage\u00adment and project manager agree: they did an excel\u00adlent job!<\/p>\n

Without this team effort, the CIPM visi\u00adtors would have had to settle for Plan B, which we put together \u201cjust in case\u201d: this contin\u00adgency plan included a printout of the entire line in orig\u00adinal size with videos of the stations at various points. Thanks to this cross-site collab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion, our colleagues in China were able to dispense with the printout, thus allowing the visi\u00adtors to get a real \u201ctaste\u201d of our machines\u2019 capa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties. The Uhlmann line in action: an image that, perhaps for some, will remain just as firmly etched in their minds as that of the \u201cEver Given\u201d stranded in the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n\n