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How can we constantly push the limits of how efficient we can be in our production?
This is one of the questions we are always asking ourselves at Hjerno.
It is one of the reasons why we have one man solely occupied with optimising the milling strategies we use in our machining centres. Both in relation to achieving the best possible surfaces and the highest possible precision and in relation to reaching the goal as efficiently as possible.
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One of the most difficult disciplines in a company is good communication.
Therefore, at Hjerno, we have since the autumn of 2020 worked purposefully to strengthen our communication across our departments in our efforts to deliver the very best quality to our customers.
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“I'm kind of the factory all-rounder. It is my job to get our tools through production at the right time, and therefore I somehow have to be all over the place.”
This is how Ulrik Andersen describes his role as Hjerno's Tool Shop Manager. In short, it is his job to make sure that our customers get their tools on time.
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At Hjerno, we live by our knowledge and our innovation. We manufacture demanding tools for difficult samples, and we come up with solutions for even the most impossible tasks.That is why we employ Denmark's sharpest tool brains.
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We like to say that Hjerno is a house full of specialists. And skilled employees who are passionate about their profession. This applies in particular to 65-year-old Johnny Schmidt.
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From a series of lines on the paper to a largely production-mature plastic sample in 3.5 months - and, what is more, a plastic sample that Hjerno's sample engineers themselves designed from scratch based on the customer's recommendations.
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From the very beginning, Hjerno has been recognised as a skilled and credible sparring partner for our customers. And as a supplier who does not shun solving both untraditional and demanding tasks.
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At Hjerno, we do not only employ skilled tool makers and capable engineers. We also employ skilled plastic specialists in our in-house test centre with our own injection moulding machines for sample mould of finished samples.
One of them is Brian Aagaard. Thanks to his background and knowledge of plastics, Brian is able to advise our customers on the choice of materials, temperatures and much more.
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Hjerno Tool Factory turns 75 this year.
And although the physical framework, customers, solutions and not least the production equipment have undergone major changes over the years, there are still a number of common denominators that recur from when the company was founded in 1946 as a machine factory at Rugårdsvej 130 in Odense by our founder, Walter Hjernø.
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It is a unique machine that has recently moved into Hjerno's fleet of production equipment.
As part of our continuous efforts to raise quality and reduce our lead times, we have invested in two additional 5-axial CNC machines from Makino and Mikron, respectively.
The former is a machine for 5-axial simultaneous milling with an extraordinary degree of precision. The machine is thus able simultaneously to mill in 5 axes with a tolerance of down to three microns.
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We have a new CEO at Hjerno. And in this video you can get to know Allan Hansen a little better.
Allan Hansen comes with more than 30 years of experience from the plastics industry and has, among other things, been involved in the fields of sales, development and manufacture of injection moulding tools and injection moulded plastic components, most recently as sales director for the plastic manufacturer HN Group in Billund.
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Hjerno hires a well-known profile from the plastics industry for the position of CEO. Co-owner and now former managing director Aage Agergaard will continue to be part of the company as head of business development and with close customer contact.
Denmark's largest manufacturer of injection moulding tools changes management and obtains its new CEO from one of the company's long-standing customers.
The new man at the head of Hjerno Tool Factory is Allan Hansen, who will take over on 1 March.
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At Hjerno, we have plenty of human processing power in the form of our skilled specialists. However, we also have a single artificial brain that keeps track of all tool pieces in the production – namely our intelligent OrderFlow, developed specifically for Hjerno’s needs.
As the link between Hjerno’s human brains and the artificial intelligence, you will find Production Planner Palle Lægsgaard who, along with the OrderFlow system, is responsible for coordinating and planning the daily production.
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As with most other companies, the Covid-19 crisis and the lockdown during spring also hurt Hjerno Tool Factory. But during the autumn we were fortunately able to observe that the plastics industry has really picked up speed again.
In fact, the last months of 2020 were some of the busiest months in the company's history. So in order to keep up with the ambitious growth goals we have set ourselves, we are currently finalising several investments in our machinery - including two new five-axis CNC machining centres.
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At Hjerno, project management can be anything from managing a single tool part through production to managing the production of an entire series of tools.
For Hjerno's project managers, project management may thus vary from small projects to several months of work, which includes sub-processes such as sample design, flow simulations, budget planning and construction as well as close collaboration with the customer on often really large projects.
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Is it possible to reduce the rim thickness of a plastic item by 70 percent without compromising on neither the quality nor the robustness of the item?
This is the challenge that Hjerno's plastics specialists have given themselves in two ongoing customer projects. And so far, it looks promising - thanks to, among other things, Hjerno's knowledge in advanced collapsible cores and special tools for 2K mouldings with the same raw material in both mouldings.
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Here at Hjerno we take pride in having the best tool specialists in Denmark working with us.
We now have concrete evidence for it, since Stefan Olsen, who recently completed his apprenticeship as an industrial technician, was awarded a medal for the particularly fine results he achieved during his apprenticeship with Hjerno.
The honour was awarded by the SDE College, Odense, where Stefan Olsen completed his training as an industrial technician.
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Hjerno Tool Factory employs many competent brains which jointly carry our tool production to a new level.
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While some industries are still on their knees because of the corona pandemic, the plastics industry is firing on all cylinders.
At least, this is what we experience with Hjerno, where we receive inquiries for new, interesting projects to an unknown degree these months. Fortunately, this indicates a busy schedule in the industry.
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Hjerno’s senior employees are a highly appreciated resource. They help ensure a high professional level and pass their knowledge on to the younger employees.
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"We pull together as a unit, which means that everyone has something to offer to the company."
This is how it sounds from Danni Lozano Andersen, who is a tool maker at Hjerno Tool Factory.
In the video below, you can meet Danni who speaks of a number of the exciting tasks he as a tool maker encounters at Hjerno. Among other things, he is responsible for operating our electrical discharge machines, laser welder and 3D measurement machines.
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It often happens that our customers come to us with inquiries for samples that they are not sure can be produced. This also applies to the two-component tools - 2K tools - of which Hjerno produces more and more.
“Especially this year, we have received many tasks within 2K tools. This is really becoming a specialty for us and a good example that as a tool factory we can help our customers find better solutions if we are involved as early in the process as possible,” says Managing Director Aage Agergaard.
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With two new appointments, we are now increasing the number of employees in Hjerno's assembly department to 12 people. The reason in particular is an ever-increasing demand for tool repairs.
“12 people in an assembly department at a Danish tool factory is a very high number. When I joined the company in 2004, the assembly department only consisted of two employees,” says Managing Director Aage Agergaard.
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What do you get if you combine a sense of numbers with a sense of data? You get the description of Hjerno's new chief accountant, Jesper Katborg, who joined us in October.
Jesper Katborg does not alone have to make sure that the numbers are correct. He will also become heavily involved in cost-optimising our operations.
"Jesper is demonstrably a really strong analyst, and we want to bring those competencies into play here at Hjerno," says Kris Haislund Agergaard, Hjerno's Business Strategy Specialist.
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As a company, Hjerno would not be anything without our skilled employees. That is why we are happy that fortunately we may often enjoy their company for a really long time.
This applies, for example, to engineer Erik Lund, who recently celebrated his 25th anniversary at Hjerno. He has thus been with us all the way on Hjerno's journey from being a medium-size to a large tool factory - and more.
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Hjerno Tool Factory has yet again been ISO 9001-15 certified.
It is a certification that we have actually had for many years, but which we recently decided to upgrade to the latest system.
“And during that process, we found out that it actually made more sense to scrap the old certification completely and instead start all over again,” says Hjerno's Business Strategy Specialist, Kris Agergaard.
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“Every day, you are assigned a new task. You will never be doing the same thing.”
So says one of our skilled specialists, industrial technician Stefan Olsen, who works in our machining department as responsible for one of our five-axial CNC machines.
Amongst other things, Stefan is involved in machining the raw blocks of metal in order to give them the right shape for the tools.
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At Hjerno, we’ve acquired so many tool specialists that we’d be only too pleased to hire them out.
We are therefore happy to come out on ‘patient visits’ and supply injection moulding installations, with the aim of remedying any errors - or perhaps just optimise the processes.
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At Hjerno we would love to have a broad mix of employees from different backgrounds and with different profiles.
We are therefore pleased to have been able to attract a quite unique profile to start adult training with us as an industrial technician.
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In our constant efforts to reduce throughput times in production and at the same time deliver ultra-precision tools at a reasonable price, we at Hjerno regularly invest in new technology for our production.
The latest additions to the machine park are two highly precise machines, which have just been installed in the factory.
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Like so many other companies, this spring's corona pandemic and lockdown posed a major challenge for Hjerno Tool Factory. We too have had to adjust our plans for the year, change work routines and otherwise adapt to the new reality to the best of our ability.
Fortunately, we now see that after a period on a low flame, our factory is returning to full speed again. The big customers, who unanimously pulled the brake in the spring, have now gradually started stepping on the gas instead.
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At Hjerno, we want to do all we can to ensure a healthy and sustainable ‘food chain’ of young talents for the tool industry.
Therefore, we are very pleased to have experienced nothing less than a boom in the number of apprenticeship applications this spring. In fact, we have received so many high-quality applications that we are now increasing the number of toolmaker and industrial technician apprenticeships from 6 to 8.
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To reduce lead times and to get a better overview of production, over the last years Hjerno has developed its very own OrderFlow system, which is customized to fit our specific needs.
So far, the system has been a huge advantage for us, and that is why we are now launching version 2.0 - an expanded version of the system with a highly advanced algorithm that provides intelligent capacity management. This means that the system is constantly planning the progress of all orders in production.
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In the wake of the corona crisis, The Danish Industry Foundation has set aside DKK 150 million to strengthen Danish companies and reboot Danish industry. Both from a short as well as a long-term perspective.
Hjerno has agreed to be part of this initiative, which is why we, together with the consulting firm Valcon, in recent months have tried to identify how we can strengthen Hjerno's competitiveness.
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Hjerno Tool Factory is a house with many professional specialties and a deep technical insight into both tool making and plastic production.
We are happy to make this knowledge available to our customers on specific projects - and preferably at the earliest stage of the process as possible.
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At Hjerno we love a good challenge. This was once again proved on a recent project.
Here, a Swedish customer asked us to manufacture a tool for a plastic item with ultra-thin holes, but at the same time with a very strong rim thickness in a completely crystal clear material with polished surfaces. In addition, the item should be of as flawless a quality as possible.
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In the autumn of 2019, we established a permanent evening shift in our production, which has proven to be incredibly efficient and of great benefit to our customers.
In order to increase the flexibility of the evening shift - and, among other things, enable them to handle an increased number of emergency repairs - the employees of the evening shift have over the last few months been in training with the day shift to learn how to operate even more processing machines.
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Fuel cells that can convert hydrogen, methanol and other substances into electricity in an electrochemical process are a promising technology in many processes in the industry and in the transport sector. Recently, the BMW car manufacturing company has released new information about the hybrid car that is being developed in collaboration with Toyota, and whose propellant is a combination of fuel cells and electric battery.
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Sometimes stubbornness pays off.
Stubbornness is in all modesty one of the most important virtues of Hjerno Tool Factory, and time after time that characteristic shows its worth.
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It may be that much of the industry is running at half speed at the moment, but at Hjerno Tool Factory we are still busy solving tasks for customers both in Denmark and abroad.
Especially our service department is busy with combined tool warranty and service checks these weeks.
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Hjerno Tool Factory, Denmark's largest manufacturer of injection moulding tools, ended 2019 with yet again satisfactory accounts that reflect the company's ambitious growth strategy.
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We are pleased to welcome another new colleague: Brian René Aagard.
Brian is a trained plastic processing technician and he will become part of the team in Hjerno's testing centre. With our own injection moulding machines, we can here test and analyse the finished tools before they are delivered to our customers.
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Unforeseen urgent tasks can be one of the biggest sources of chaos in a manufacturing business.
We at Hjerno try to take care of this by simply setting aside time for chaos - scheduled chaos, mind you. A fixed amount of time each day is simply reserved for the unexpected tasks that suddenly pop up. For example emergency repairs of tools.
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How can we best bring the knowledge of our skilled employees into play? And at the same time become even more efficient in our production?
These are two challenges that we constantly give ourselves at Hjerno Tool Factory. That is why we have established a so-called expert group consisting of nine employees - both experienced capacities and younger, talented employees - who help us implement the individual projects safely.
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Hjerno Tool Factory is of course, like everyone else, affected by the events in the wake of the corona virus that can lead to the COVID-19 disease.
As a responsible company, we take the authorities' orders and guidelines very seriously, and we have already taken a number of measures to protect our employees. Their safety and our corporate social responsibility are our top priority.
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This year's first machinery investment is a reality in the form of a new surface grinding machine from the well-known German manufacturer Ziersch.
It is an extremely modern machine with built-in intelligence that can handle large sheets up to 1000 x 600 millimetres and weighing up to one ton. In that way, the grinding machine is capable of handling even large sheets with a very high degree of precision.
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When you buy tools from Hjerno, you can rest assured that there will be no extra costs for adjustments or modifications of the finished tool.
When producing a mould, we ensure that an agreement is in place with the customer regarding the quality requirements the finished tool must meet. It could be anything from critical measurements to mould runout and the cycle time on suctions.
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2019 was another prosperous year for Hjerno Tool Factory.
The number of employees grew by 18 per cent to just over 60 employees, and growth continued in 2019 as in previous years.
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It is of no use having the best technologies in the industry unless you can make the most of them.
To ensure that our employees are properly equipped to handle our equipment and production machinery, we regularly arrange courses and other qualification upgradings.
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We are really pleased with our skilled apprentices and see it as our duty to help ensure a healthy supply chain of skilled tool makers and designers. That is why we train new apprentices every year.
The latest employee with a certificate of completed apprenticeship is Kasper Wissing Sørensen, who can now call himself a newly trained tool technician - also known as a tool designer - after an intense one-year apprenticeship.
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Normally, we at Hjerno develop and produce tools that typically weigh between 250 kilos and several tonnes. But once in a while we knock into a project that challenges us beyond the ordinary.
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As a workplace, we should contribute to our employees leading the healthiest life possible.
At least, this is what we believe at Hjerno, where - in addition to a healthy canteen scheme and participation in various exercise campaigns - we have succeeded in reducing the number of smokers to a large round zero.
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21 services.
That is the number of "extra" services you get for free when you buy tools from Hjerno. This means that as a customer you do not need to budget for extra invoices and other unforeseen expenditures.
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Over the coming months, Hjerno Tool Factory will roll out a new setup with a permanent evening shift of four men, so that production in future will run as a two-shift operation.
Two of the four employees have already started and the remaining two will join on 15 January. The new permanent evening shift will both help to further reduce lead times and increase Hjerno's production flexibility .
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Due to a growing demand for circular grinding in connection with tool manufacturing, Hjerno is investing in an advanced new CNC circular grinder to supplement the factory's existing circular grinder.
This is a ZR 600 CNC circular grinder from the German manufacturer Ziersch, and the machine can handle samples up to 450 millimetres in outside dimensions. In addition to the machine itself, Hjerno has also purchased a wide range of accessories.
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Expensive, but necessary.
That is the bottom line conclusion for the department meetings, which Hjerno's three production departments hold regularly every or every other week.
Because although the meetings come on top of the other meetings that are held during an already busy week, the time is well spent - even though the department meetings annually at the bottom line cost almost one million Danish kroner in working time lost.
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At Hjerno, we think it is important that our talented employees are rewarded for their work effort. Therefore, every employee in the production gets a fixed bonus for so-called 'maximum effort'.
Some time ago, the supplement was introduced as a standalone bonus after a particularly busy period but it has now become a permanent part of the payslip.
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Over the years, Hjerno Tool Factory has specialised in technically demanding and core hardened tools of very high quality.
Therefore, surface treatment of tools is not an extra service - but usually a completely natural part of the manufacturing process, for which the customer does not pay extra.
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Hjerno's managing director, Aage Agergaard, has been nominated for the Owner of the Year Funen 2019 award.
This year's Owner of the Year award goes to an owner-manager who, with diligence and great motivation, manages to create success stories that may inspire other companies. More than 9,000 companies have been analysed by PwC to find the nominees, and Hjerno's managing director, Aage Agergaard, is among them.
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Starting at a new workplace can be overwhelming. There are new routines to be learned, new colleagues to get to know and lots of impressions to digest.
Hjerno therefore works with a mentoring scheme for new employees, where an experienced colleague in the department in question introduces the new employee to everyday life at Hjerno.
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Friday 23 August, Vækstpartner Kapital bought 2/3 of the shares in Hjerno Tool Factory.
The investment will kick off a significant upshift at Denmark's largest tool factory, which within five years plans to double both turnover and number of employees – mainly based on growth in the domestic market.
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Hjerno has employed Bent Breinholdt Andersen as a new tool designer. He will strengthen our already strong team of tool designers.
Bent has many years of experience from another company in the industry and is experienced in both the design of new tools and repairs.
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We are getting more and more repair orders from our customers, who prefer that we perform the repairs and the maintenance on their tools.
"Naturally this increases the pressure on our assembly department. We have already this year hired two new employees in the department, so now we have a fixed staffing of eight men. However, in peak periods, this is still not always enough to be able to comply with our customers' requirements for fast delivery," says Managing Director Aage Agergaard.
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Thanks to modern technology and high precision, we can today provide our tools with a surface and a finish that was not possible in the past.
But this also increases the requirement for better rust protection, as even the smallest microrust on surfaces with small tolerances may be critical.
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In the continuing efforts to streamline production as much as possible, Hjerno has implemented a number of changes in the organisation.
Our current logistics manager, Søren Larsen (pictured to the right), has become our new Progress & Purchase Manager responsible for ensuring compliance with production schedules and reporting to our customers.
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At Hjerno, it is important to ensure a healthy and sustainable food chain of young talents for our industry. That is why we constantly in our production have a certain number of apprentices, who we train ourselves.
One of them is 35-year-old Stefan Olsen, who recently at SDE College finished his training as an industrial technician with a nice grade 12 in the books after five years of apprenticeship at Hjerno.
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At Hjerno, we have the position that as a successful company we have a social responsibility for taking in employees, who in one way or another have had a hard time or have had trouble finding a job.
That is why we, among other things, cooperate with Odense Municipality's job centre to find jobs for unemployed people. An example of this is 40-year-old Mohamed Ali, originally from Iraq, who at the beginning of the year joined Hjerno as part of an activation programme.
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Over the past few years, we have built up more and more experience in five-axial simultaneous milling – which is the process where you are milling simultaneously in all five axes.
The vast majority of all five-axial CNC milling in Denmark is done through more conventional indexing - where the cutting tool operates at a fixed angle. However, thanks to a continued effort by Hjerno’s milling specialists and ongoing optimisation of our CAD/CAM system we have managed to significantly increase the precision of our simultaneous milling.
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A Friday in June, Hjerno held its fourth rich in tradition canoe trip on Odense River. Here, our employees have the opportunity to test their level of fitness and at the same time get to know each other better within some unconventional frameworks.
"Usually we always have to care for and prioritise our machines, and that is why it is important sometimes to put our employees at the centre of events. We can see that it helps to strengthen the unity in everyday life," explains Managing Director Aage Agergaard.
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With up to 10,000 different tool parts at a time in transit through production, Hjerno has for a long time been needing a database system that can streamline both storage and updating of the many data that are generated in our production.
That is why Hjerno has developed a SQL-based database that replaces spreadsheets and other databases — and that at the same time automatically migrates and integrates data between our financial management, hourly accounting, order flow, and other applications.
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Many talk about it. But only the fewest have succeeded in developing satisfactory methods of milling powdered steel, which so far has resulted in both expensive and difficult production of such samples.
Due to a number of wear-related advantages and great strength in, for example, inlet gates, powder steel is a very good alternative to the more traditional steel types.
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No more than one year ago we invested in a new portal crane but meanwhile our assembly department has grown so much that we have invested in an extension of our portal crane so that it now covers the entire department.
After the extension, the new crane is now 35 metres long, seven metres wide and has a lifting capacity of 6.8 tons.
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True to form, the summertime is not equal to vacation time at Hjerno. To be able to continue servicing both Danish and foreign customers over the summer, we operate with the highest staffing ever during the summer vacation weeks.
"We have long since recognised that we are more than just a tool factory. We are in the service trade and therefore it is no use shutting down the factory for three weeks in July," explains Aage Agergaard, Managing Director at Hjerno Tool Factory.
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A year and a half ago, Hjerno developed a unique new tool design in connection with a customer assignment.
And we are very pleased that this specific design has now led to further two major orders for the same type of tools from the same customer.
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Rather than buying its polishing services externally from a subcontractor, Hjerno Tool Factory has for years had its own polishing department.
The department has so far consisted of one permanent polishing specialist with ad hoc assistance from the company's other tool makers. However, Hjerno is now increasing the manning in the polishing department with two permanent employees more, so that the total staffing reaches three full-time employees.
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The investment in a new laser marking machine should give Hjerno even better possibilities for easy and gentle laser marking of spare parts.
It is, among other things, the plan that the increased capacity should allow each tool component to be fitted with a number to facilitate the assembly and the ordering of spare parts at the customer.
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Conformal cooling is increasingly in demand in the plastics industry. As a result, Hjerno is now strengthening its knowledge in the field through a cooperation with one of Denmark's leading industrial companies: Danfoss.
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In order to further strengthen the professional level and to prepare the company for continued growth, Hjerno has recruited five new employees, who have their first working day during April.
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There are many unknown factors at stake, when a new tool is to be tested at the customer's location and then adjusted. And often, it is a process that involves additional workflows and a series of last-minute adjustments to the tool.
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Talented young employees are the timber, with which a company builds its future.
"That is why we are extremely happy and proud of the fact that as many as nine of the apprentices, whom we have trained throughout the ages, are still part of the company today," says Managing Director Aage Agergaard.
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Sustainability works for both the environment and the wallet. This is why Hjerno in recent years has launched a number of energy and resource saving initiatives across the value chain.
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Through the decades, Hjerno has specialised in the manufacture of technically demanding injection moulding tools of high quality - and at good prices.
But how do we actually go from order number to finished tool? You may learn more in this video, where we follow a tool's way through Hjerno’s production and various departments.
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At Hjerno we are constantly trying to reduce lead times and thereby offer our customers as competitive prices as possible.
One of the most recent initiatives is the implementation of a new kind of milling strategy in our CAM software. The name of the software is VoluMill, and it shaves off 70-80 percent on part of the machining time on larger parts.
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In January a new 5-axial machining centre arrived at our factory, and it has now been joined by another brand-new machining centre.
With a large machining level (1200 x 508 x 635 mm), which simultaneously can handle up to 1,600 kgs, the machine is ideal for machining larger mould sheets.
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Hjerno had a good 2018 according to last year’s accounts.
In fact, this has been the best year ever for the company in terms of both turnover and earnings.
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Tools that are ready for production and that work from day one. Longer life span. And technically competent feedback from a house filled with specialists.
These are just some of the reasons why it - according to Aage Agergaard, Managing Director at Hjerno Tool Factory - will virtually always be worthwhile paying a little more for a quality tool produced at Hjerno than a standard tool bought in Asia.
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Hjerno continues to invest. In week 3, a new five-axial CNC mill arrived, and within a month’s time a new triaxial CNC machine will arrive at the factory.
Both machines are part of Hjerno's declared strategy of investing a nice share of the company’s profits in new technology that can make our products even more competitive.
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Healthy habits and a good work environment are important parameters in a modern company. That is why we at Hjerno endeavour to ensure that the working day is as healthy as possible.
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Hjerno strengthens the management level under the managing director with the promotion of team leader Kristian Jessen Hansen to Tool Shop Manager.
Kristian is trained as a tool maker and joined the company three years ago after a number of years as self-employed. He soon proved to be such a valuable acquisition to Hjerno that in future he will be responsible for part of the day to day tool production.
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Hjerno’s tools have become even more accurate.
A long-term goal oriented focus on increasing the accuracy of our machining work combined with a number of projects with unprecedented quality requirements has helped raise the bar for how accurate our tools really can become.
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Why is it really so important for Hjerno to grow as a business? Sometimes we are asked that question and the answer is quite simple. It is neither an expression of an inflated growth ideal or simply growing pains.
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It is now about a year since we relocated to our new premises - and therefore it is a good time to review the move that, for better or worse, has filled a lot in the past year.
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We are now ready to take the next step towards developing the intelligent tool, which we have been working on for almost two years.
Thanks to a grant from Innovationsfonden (Denmark’s Innovation Foundation), we have managed to create a detailed 3D sketch of the system and the various processes. And now we want to bring the intelligent tool from the drawing board to a functional prototype by seeking grants from the EU-funded Eurostars programme.
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In order to optimise the production flow and to make even better use of our machines, we are introducing new routines in our way of programming our CNC machines.
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All things considered, can we talk about a flat hierarchy when we have an organisation with ten mid-level managers? Yes, at Hjerno we actually can.
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We often claim that we are not just tool makers but rather consultants.
Therefore we offer informal workshops at the beginning of a project where we can enter into a dialogue with the customer about the scope of the task. Such a workshop may have a duration of a few hours to several days.
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In recent years, IT security has steadily climbed higher and higher up on the public agenda. Our customers should be confident that their files are kept safe with us - and therefore we go through great efforts to maintain a bulletproof IT infrastructure.
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A steady ‘food chain’ of young, skilled talents is crucial for the future of the tool industry – and for Danish industry’s competitiveness in general.
Hjerno therefore always commits to have a certain number of apprentices in the company.
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Hjerno tools always come with a total warranty. This means that we do not release a tool before we are sure it will function in our customer's production. Therein lies the warranty that we provide tools, which are ready for production.
This is why our specialists often visit our customers to participate in the commissioning of the tool in the customer's production.
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During summer and late summer, we have employed a number of new employees for, among other things, our assembly and milling department.
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