Customized Standard: the configuration flexibility of Salvador optimizing machines

20 | 11 | 2024

Configuration flexibility is a fundamental pillar for Salvador, which we define as Customized Standard. This concept translates into a full range of customizable machines designed to precisely meet each customer’s specific needs, optimizing both operations and resource use.

The Customized Standard approach makes it possible to combine the configurations needed to ensure efficiency, and speedof response with the cost containment of a modular construction. All while ensuring an optimal balance between quality, affordability and delivery time. The flexibility of Salvador machines is thus designed for customers who seek high performance in a cost-effective solution.

There is a solution tailored to each client’s needs: the vision of Salvador

In the woodworking industry, Salvador’s customers span from sawmilling and packaging to construction, furniture, fixtures and flooring. They also vary in scale, starting from micro-business to large-scale industry. While sharing needs for production optimization, each of these areas requires distinct technical specificities. Production is diverse in capacity, methodologies and goals, and so too must optimizers adapt accordingly. For these customers, the ability to have a machine that reflects their needs is a competitive advantage. Only a tailored solution increases efficiency, reduces waste, and improves the quality of the final product, while ensuring sustainability of the investment.

Salvador wants to ensure a true tailor-made configuration, but without the costs of onerous options designed and manufactured exclusively for a single customer. With this in mind, we have found the right balance between customization and standardization: the company offers a modular configuration and each customer benefits from a customized machine. The benefits are many, including greater responsiveness at the time of order and quick delivery. This allows customers to quickly implement new production solutions and recover their investment in a short time.

What is Salvador’s Customized Standard

This flexibility in configuration has been consolidated into a solution called Customized Standard, a distinctive approach that characterizes all our optimizers. Salvador offers only four product families with a total of seven optimizer models. And with more than four decades of experience and a prominent position in the market, the company has developed an in-depth understanding of the needs of the industry and translated it into an agile system of customization.

In essence, over these four decades, the company has continued to develop options and aggregates to combine with its optimizers, and to date the possibilities are vast. With the Customized Standard, customers can choose from a wide range of configurations, all supported by premium components, most of which are already in stock.

The Customized Standard offers two main benefits: the ability to configure the machine precisely to the customer’s specifications, without compromise, and to guarantee a price fully in line with a standard product.

Customized Standard: how it works, in practice

Salvador’s Customized Standard takes the form of a range of solutions that combine standardization and customization. Each machine is refined and configured to fit into the customer’s existing production environment, even within automated lines. Customization options include specific components and options, selected to meet the most common and special needs of each industry, but also software adaptations to meet the ever-increasing demands for computerization. This flexible approach allows customers to truly tailor machinery to their needs.

The above-mentioned stock availability of premium components allows customers a ready supply of spare parts or for repair work. Such inventory management efforts are a significant advantage for companies, which can thus operate without interruption, keeping production running at full efficiency.

An approach driven by mission and experience

In addition to being a technical solution, the Customized Standard reflects Salvador’s philosophy. Our international vocation has allowed us to work with companies all over the world, adapting to the most diverse markets and learning about individual needs in depth. This wealth of experience, combined with an ethic based on the enhancement of resources and process optimization, allows us to offer solutions that are concretely customer-oriented.

Salvador machines are designed to optimize work in a sustainable way, minimizing material waste and promoting operator safety and comfort. In fact, the mission behind the Customized Standard is to build machines that adapt to production processes, not vice versa.

And if there is no solution, we design and standardize it

In the event that the customer’s request cannot be met even by using or adapting existing options, the technical department is always ready to study a new solution. If this turns out to be interesting, for example because it intercepts or anticipates changed needs in the production processes of a given sector that will become widespread in the future, the solution is developed and standardized always with a view to providing agile and economically sustainable solutions.