Glo Film Lighting’s warehouse operative, Joe Cooper, inspects cables using the company’s QC-Check workstation from Data Strategy.
As a rapidly expanding family business, GLO Film Lighting made a timely investment in Data Strategy’s QC-Check, the automated equipment safety inspection system. With QC-Check integrated into its rental software package, GLO Film Lighting maintained the high level of service integral to its ethos, whilst it focused on company growth.
Based in South-West London, GLO Film Lighting provides dry and wet equipment rental to customers across the UK in the television, commercial and film industries. To carry out electrical equipment testing, cable testing and the inspection of power distribution boxes, QC-Check was customised to include the robust and industry-standard PAT-4, CAB-4 and RCD-t testing units from OutBoard.
With equipment increasingly going out as complete dry hire packages, GLO Film Lighting is confident that every picked item has been tested well within safety regulation requirements with QC-Check.
Previously, the company scheduled external electricians to test all the electrical equipment according to regulations during quiet periods of the year. Now, according to Glo Film Lighting’s Ewan Ross, “QC-Check has made it easier for us to expand our team because we don’t need to have experienced electricians in to carry out the testing, it’s all kept up to date very simply on a day-to-day basis. With testing as an integral part of the warehouse process, with procedures set up to be carried out step by step for each piece of equipment, it’s much easier for us to focus on other areas of the business.”
GLO Film Lighting’s rental management software required additional system integration carried out by Data Strategy’s Iain Roche and John McMullen. Ross added, “I cannot praise the dedication of the Data Strategy team highly enough. They worked tirelessly to perfect the integration.”
Ross concluded, “We are very pleased with the QC-Check system and integration. We can now take on a wider variety of equipment to meet the needs of our customers who are growing alongside us. Once each new piece of equipment is set up, anyone can follow the simple step-by-step inspection instructions and as the test dates begin to spread across the year, there are no bottlenecks, so a smooth warehouse process is maintained.”
