Oak By Design Education And Team Building Field Trip

Oak By Design’s team of site and workshop joiners enjoyed a rare day off the tools!

We had the pleasure of being invited to our local Leitz Tooling UK workshop in Leeds. Already a customer of Leitz for all our machine tooling and sharpening needs, Jack Rogers their technical sales consultant thought it would be beneficial to our company for our joiners to attend a dedicated seminar at their workshop.

The seminar began with an exceptionally interesting insight into the history of Leitz dating back to their founding in Germany in 1876, right through their innovations to the industry leading international company they are today. 

We were then given a detailed guided tour of their workshop to see their state-of-the-art tool sharpening machinery, robots, and their expert team of engineers in action!

A return to the conference room at lunchtime was warmly welcomed by an array of food and drinks provided by Leitz.

This was followed by Jack and his colleagues, Lance (service centre manager) and Neil (technical sales representative) sharing their specialist knowledge of tooling, CNC manufacturing processes and innovative ways to speed up our company’s production and efficiency.

Leitz, one of the world’s leading innovators in precision tooling, design, manufacture, and sharpening methods had all sorts up their sleeves for us.

Gone are the days of sharpening your own tooling on a Friday afternoon!

As a woodworking company with an expert team of joiners, we already have a great understanding and a vast amount of experience in the machine tooling that we use, yet the expert knowledge they were able to share with our team was second to none!

All in all, an extremely interesting and informative trip.

Why stop there……

As recommended by Jack, our company booked the team in at Flight Club in Leeds City centre for a fun, social darts team-building activity inclusive of more food and drinks. The whole team thoroughly enjoyed the day, taking away more expert knowledge under their belts and will be dealing closely with Leitz for many years to come.