For more than 30 years, TM Services & Spares has been repairing and maintaining a wide range of industrial woodworking machinery. Its highly trained field engineers, amongst the most experienced in the UK, can repair most types of machinery, including panel saws, wide-belt sanders, classical machinery, moulders and edgebanders.
The company has grown to become one of the UK’s most respected woodworking machinery service specialists, providing nationwide coverage. It offers a rapid response to breakdowns as well as delivering regular service programmes, and is able to source parts for even the oldest of woodworking machines.
Wide-belt sanders are a key area of expertise, and here TM offers what it believes is an unsurpassed service. Sanding machines are different from other woodworking machines and require specialist knowledge when it comes to servicing and making major repairs.
The company’s field engineers can repair and maintain most makes of machines used for general sanding, calibrating, veneering and finishing. Fitting new feed mats, recovering and fitting contact rollers and converting oscillation systems are all highly complex jobs which TM regularly carries out to high standards.
As sole UK sales agent for Striebig vertical panel saws, sister company TM Machinery knows that a pre-planned saw maintenance programme helps guard against possible breakdowns and expensive downtime.
The service division is geared up to keeping Striebig saws operating at maximum efficiency at all times and increasing their life span.
All of its service engineers carry relevant spares to every service call, from huge UK stocks, reducing the likelihood of return visits. A next-day, spare parts delivery service is provided, with spares available for all Striebig machines built as far back as 1968.
TM Services has continued to expand its apprentice base by taking on engineering student Liam Dunkley as an apprentice service co-ordinator.
Liam, aged 20, is in his first year of a three-year engineering apprenticeship at Leicester College. He currently spends three days a week providing technical support for TM Services’ manager Dave Roberts combined with two days a week at college.
Says TM Machinery director Matt Pearce: “Liam is the second apprentice we have taken on recently in our service division. This demonstrates our long-term commitment to providing thorough training for our service division staff and to local young people.”
With ever-more stringent Health & Safety requirements, it makes sense to have a preventive maintenance programme in place to minimise the potential for breakdowns, rather than having to react after trouble strikes.
“Failure to adequately service and maintain production equipment might invalidate manufacturers’ warranties,” says Matt. “It could also mean costly downtime and lengthy disruption to business, which is something no-one can afford. That’s what we are here to prevent."
