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Low Volume Production Components |
North American manufacturers are challenged to find one stop solutions to manufacture their families of low volume production components. Larger scale machining projects can often overwhelm small job shops and offshore machining solutions can create new and difficult challenges. Palcam’s BeST can provide solutions for your complex low volume custom components.
Case Study #23879A
Forming Roller Head
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Material: ASTM 1080 steel
Size: 4.5" x 10.5" x 14"
Quantity: 10 pieces |
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What we heard our customer say ...
- inconsistent quality previously provided at local general machine shops
- customer had no desire to dedicate any increase in internal capacity
- the specific component is key to the functionality of the entire assembly
- quality of their product was crucial to opening new markets
Our BeST meetings identified the following areas of opportunity ...
- reduce operations previously required
- eliminate need for fixturing to reduce costs
- identify proper machine tool utilization
Win-Win ...
- customer benefited from new found consistency in quality
- customer can enjoy having a single source supplier of component
- Palcam is currently investigating further opportunities with this customer
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