SIGNET SIGNS LTD

Leicester-based Signet Signs Ltd provides a complete range of sign services to the shortest deadlines, tightest budgets and most exacting specifications, all to the highest standards. From site survey, design, detailing and manufacture right through to installation and maintenance, forming a totally integrated sign service.

Alan Elvydge explains “with so many variants in the machining process depending upon material, cut depth, accuracy of detail etc. excellent communication is required with the machine operator".

With 30 years experience working with some of the UK’s best-known names nationally and internationally, Sygnet Signs Ltd has proven itself to be a complete sign maker. The 20-people staff company’s expertise has been gained in all aspects of sign making with specialist in-house skills including metal letter fabrication, CNC machining, product assembly and site installation. The continuing policy of investment in state-of-the-art manufacturing machinery means that they are at the forefront in their specialised areas.

"Designers & machines need to work fast, very fast, explains Mick Iley Chairman of the company, we have been looking at several options on the market, and Type3 shown us the most satisfactory results”.

Type3, A complete package:

Type3 is a complete design for manufacture package logically broken down into three core modules for each stage of a 3D product’s creation: TypeEdit, TypeArt and CAM. From using the software it was clear how it could be applied to different processes in various industries, and which of those could be exploited most efficiently in the sign trade, says Alan, the designer.

Type3 advantages:

With ever increasing competitiveness within the industry and the customers desire for a high quality product at a low cost, Sygnet Signs Ltd is now producing items, using this software, that previously would have been manufactured externally or simply weren’t financially viable, while cutting lead times, increasing in-house expertise and most importantly giving their customers a wider product range at a lower cost.

While already using software specifically designed for sign creation, and other technical 2D package, "TypeEdit offered us excellent vectorization and bitmap editing tools thus allowing us the ability to create outlined artwork from images and photos that could then be transferred into CNC tooling files” explains Alan. Type3 takes advantage of the artistic design sense rather than critical job production, yet still maintains the ability to achieve strict tolerances when and where necessary. This is a piece of software where knowledge and ability comes with practice. “At Sygnet we have used this facility to produce moulds to tolerance".