Annual Procurement Report 2017 Cover Story: VanAire Inc: Your independent partner in engineered valve automation www.valve-world.net From the mighty to the micro Valve World Annual Procurement Report. Dear readers, Valve World is the global magazine for valve and actuator users, suppliers and specifi ers. www.valve-world.net Welcome to the 2017 edition of the Valve World Annual Publishing Director Procurement Report. Robert-Jan à Campo [email protected] Tel: +31 575 585275 Being involved in the various Valve World publications I often Editorial Team (print & online) find myself looking at the world in a different way, being aware [email protected] of how and where valves of all types impact on our everyday James Hoare [email protected] (The Netherlands) lives. 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Richard VanDeVusse, a mechanical engineer working for a valve distributor, recognized a void in the industry through working closely with customers and learning of their needs. In response to a demand for a consistent, high quality, engineered product for mounting kits, VanDeVusse convinced his employer to begin manufacturing. When the company made a decision to refocus its business, Richard took the opportunity to purchase the equipment and began to independently design and manufacture mounting kits. The company quickly expanded due to the ever-increasing demand for these critical EVAH components. Today, VanAire houses fi fteen 3D CAD stations and over 30 CNC machines in their 45,000 square foot ISO 9001:2015 registered facility, including robotic welders, laser cutting systems, machining centers, turning centers, press brakes, blind hole keyseaters and robotic machine tenders. Valve World had the pleasure of visiting VanAire’s team in Gladstone, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to meet with Mr. William VanDeVusse; President, Mr. Tony Lambert; VP of Valve Automation Software and Mr. Eric Miller; VP of Manufacturing to discuss VanAire’s highly engineered products and the company’s commitment to quality. By Sarah Bradley 4 Valve World Annual Procurement Report 2017 www.valve-world.net VanAire’s critical components are used in it really compliant with the standard? Does many different sectors including oil & gas, it really do what it is supposed to do? Is the power, water & wastewater, chemical and quality there?” said Bill VanDeVusse. pulp & paper. Due to the wide range of Lambert further explained the importance applications for VanAire hardware, kits of adhering to industry standards and why can range in size from approximately one this commitment to quality differentiates pound to well over half of a ton. While VanAire from other component providers. William VandeVusse the mounting kit component is often “To understand why standards are critical to overlooked as a commodity item, VanAire us and the importance of adhering to them, has set out to inform the valve world that, you have to ask yourself why standards sources indicate that a primary reason for even exist. It is not just so things look the premature valve failure can be attributed same; people want consistency, they want to inadequate mounting hardware. With quality, but they also want the safety that this in mind, the company has used its goes along with that. If you do not design immense experience, knowledge and products to standards, you cannot ensure engineering capabilities to help ensure safety. Our customers want to ensure they that the automated valve assembly will are doing everything they can to maintain withstand all known torques and loads uptime and have processes running when carried during its predicted lifespan. they are supposed to be running,” he said. “Our design standards and manufacturing “You have standards on the valves and practices are all tied to industry standards. actuators, but now the industry is realizing We look at ANSI, AWS, ASME standards how important it is to have standards Tony Lambert and make sure that we design and on that connecting piece; the mounting manufacture our products to these global, bracket that connects these actuators and industry standards. This has helped us valves. It helps to ensure that the valve will to deliver that consistent, high quality last and perform as intended, because there product that meets all of our customers’ were times in the past where valves failed applications,” explained Tony Lambert. and it looked bad on the manufacturer, but “Designing and manufacturing to the in reality it was an inadequate mounting international standards differentiates bracket - it was too flimsy or it was not us from our competition – our internal parallel or not concentric. All those things standards are already patterned after that, if not engineered correctly, can international standards, so we often say negatively impact the lifecycle of the valve.” when we know we are quoting against our competition, to make sure you are Culture of quality comparing apples with apples. They may VanAire is committed to continual give you a chunk of metal that will indeed improvement and the company’s ISO Eric Miller fasten the two components together, but is 9001:2015 certification is a prime example VanAire team committed to exceeding customers’ expectations in quality, delivery and value.