Teepee harnesses funding

business life in the borough.

Councillor John Murray, chairman of Walsall Business Support, said: “We offer grants for businesses looking to bring growth, skills and employment to the borough of Walsall, with the aim of benefitting as many local people as possible.

“We were really pleased to be able to provide Teepee Electrical with this grant. The business is a brilliant Walsall success story, providing a wealth of employment opportunities for local people, many of whom have very long service with the company.

“This is a great example of how a growing business can benefit from a Walsall Business Support grant to add value to the wider community, and we wish them every success in the future.”

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Cable loom and harness specialist Convert Ltd has delivered 2,000 harnesses within a week of taking an order from Texecom, the global electronic and digital security specialist.

Texecom’s original supplier had let it down and it was on a very tight deadline for its customer. After a referral from a PCB manufacturer, it put a call into Convert on the Wednesday, which immediately ordered enough parts to provide samples, and sent the drawings.

Convert began sourcing materials and quoting the following day (Thursday) and received a purchase order for 2,000 pieces.

‘‘We needed these harnesses urgently so that we could deliver what our customers needed. However, when a supplier let us down at the last minute, we knew we had to find a reliable company quickly

The team of Convert engineers produced a test harness and electrically verified everything on the Friday, starting production on the Monday by cutting cables, for assembly the following day. The assembly included five cables, three connectors and an EMC ferrite core. The 2,000 pieces were delivered in three batches less than a week from the initial phone call to the first delivery.

The tricky bit for Convert was the tooling and it also had to build