FET shared trays
FET shared trays bundle: new period layouts and support for college workshop teams.
Change for Workshop Programmes
From May 2024, ByThis has updated its FET shared tray bundles to meet the real requirements at South African vocational colleges. Technical heads at Ekurhuleni and Boland campuses flagged equipment mismatches and lost accessories during period swaps. The new trays now follow a fixed layout per period and class size.
This adjustment is designed for staff running multiple practical sessions in one day. Swapping a tray between N3 welding and electrical foundation means you’re not hunting for a missing 300 mm rule or waiting for a soldering tip to cool. For the coastal trade bays at Boardwalk and Tyger Valley, humidity-resistant foam keeps the tools from rusting up before final practical. We’ve learnt that even one missing crimp tool can waste a full period.
Who This Affects
FET shared trays are built for technical facilitators and plant buyers at trade colleges and training centres. Whether you’re resetting benches in a Cresta shopping mall’s auto-electrical unit or running an install brief at a public sector site in George, the trays carry standard gear for CNC, basic electrical, or vinyl modules. Period layouts fit time-tabled swaps, so you aren’t caught out if workshop floors get shuffled during power cuts.
For high-volume teams, each shared tray resets in under five minutes using a colour-coded diagram. The idea is to keep things practical, not pretty. No mixed-up Allen keys, no missing pliers. The trays are ready for Monday, not just for a syllabus check.
How Customers Use It
Colleges across Gauteng and the Western Cape trialled the new shared kits during the Q1 2024 intake. Sample feedback from a Germiston FET facilitator: "Our auto-calibration probe didn’t go missing for the first time all year." Practical assessment teams use the trays to run group projects, one tray per six students, swappable between woodwork, CNC routing, or vinyl benchwork. Each period layout means less confusion when the technician’s running late or the line trip knocks out a half-finished job.
There’s a lot of pressure on facilitators to keep kit costs down while meeting the staff:student ratio. Swapping trays between workshops or lending them for open-day demos doesn’t mean a puzzle to repack. Standard kit lists printed per tray, and extras can be ordered for exam season crunch.
What’s Next for Plant and Yard Buyers
For plant and yard buyers handling workshop setups at Sunnyrock Trade Yard or rolling out gear for satellite FET sites, the process is now much more direct. Start with a short email brief through our contact form, outlining class size, modules, and voltage requirements. The ByThis team reviews the request locally in Germiston, checking what’s standard on a South African shop floor. Based on this, you get a shortlist for trays, starter kits, or ready-to-fit bench stations, no wasted line items, just what’s needed for the week.
Once kits are confirmed, ByThis sends trays either for delivery or arranges collection from 2 Makro Place. Installation guides are tool-by-tool, not generic. For trade buyers with large orders, onsite walkthroughs at Sunnyrock can be scheduled, especially if your bench layouts or storage is a squeeze.
Ask Sunnyrock for a shortlist
Name the job on the floor and the city. We answer from Germiston with vinyl, laser, CNC or DTF picks that fit.