Heavy-Duty Workshop Machinery Installation — Kaduna

A growing fabrication workshop in Kaduna had outgrown its manual tooling. Customer orders were being turned away — not for lack of skill, but for lack of machine capacity. The client needed a step-change: a fully mechanised production floor capable of precision turning, milling, and heavy metal forming. The complication? Operations could not stop. The workshop had active contracts throughout the transition, and any downtime meant penalties.

TME's process began with a two-day site survey — assessing the workshop's power supply (415V, 3-phase), floor load ratings, and workflow layout. We specified five machines from our OEM partner in Shandong Province: a heavy-duty 3-metre bed lathe, a universal milling machine, a 200-ton hydraulic press, a mechanical shaping machine, and a surface grinder — each customised to 415V site power and fitted with local-compatible tooling interfaces.

Installation was phased across four weekends to avoid disrupting weekday production. TME's engineering team handled foundation prep, anchor bolting, three-phase electrical runs, and individual test-run sign-off for each machine before moving to the next. All five were live and in production by week 10.

Within 60 days of final commissioning, the workshop reported a 410% increase in production capacity — not from working longer hours, but from the machines doing in 2 hours what previously took an entire shift. Eight workshop technicians were certified on the new equipment during the handover week, and the client signed a 12-month SLA maintenance contract with TME immediately after.