The partnership with ISB, a quality leap
Mr Stefano Berselli, what does your company do?
Founded in 1953 in Modena as a small owneroperated company, Tellure Rôta is today one of the most important European enterprises for the production and sale of wheels and castors for industrial, civil and domestic application. We serve over 2.000 customers spread over 70 countries, thanks to our know-how in materials and technical solutions, the use of the most up-to-date software for design and production processes, and flexibility and competence in the services offered to customers. Production is carried out in the sites in Formigine, in the province of Modena (North Italy) generating a catalogue of more than 8.000 standard articles and customised solutions on the basis of customer requirements. The Research and Testing laboratory, TRLab Test & Research, is part of the Emilia Romagna Region’s High Technology Network.
The Quality, Environment and Safety Management System has obtained the Quality (ISO
9001:2015), Environment (ISO 14001:2015) and Occupational Health and Safety (ISO
45001:2018) certifications.
When and why did the partnership between the ISB and TELLURE RÔTA come abo ut?
The partnership with ISB began in 2017. We had, at that time, an urgent need to rationalize the logistics for bearings (a fundamental component for many of our articles), both in terms of warehouse management and in terms of the ease of pick-up on the part of
the production departments. In addition, we needed to shift from management with many
suppliers to a single supplier of bearings for the articles with the highest stock turnover, in
order to guarantee constant product quality. The partnership with ISB allowed for great improvements in both of these aspects.
What are the “pluses” of this partnership with ISB?
Working with ISB allows us to have control of the stocks of bearings which is timely and
precise and enables us to reduce the risk of stock breakage and associated problems to a
minimum. In addition, the choice to work with a single supplier allows ISB to have very high volumes of purchases from us, and therefore to supply with regularity, giving continuity to the service and generating economic benefits for both parties.
How did the ISB KanBan project come about? What were your requirements?
Our production departments have been organised on a “lean production” basis since 2007. In the last 5 years, we have tried to extend the lean logic also to a number of suppliers of high volume components. In 2017, when we started with ISB, we had already had experience with other suppliers, and we knew that in the situation of acquiring components with lots of different codes, management with KanBan was the ideal solution.


