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June 15, 2021

Lead Time & Cost Reduction

Challenge: Our customer would order the castings and have them ‘drop shipped’ at our machine shop.  Then the customer would place an order with us to machine […]
June 15, 2021

Packaging and Kitting

Challenge: A customer was buying six specific parts that we used together in the assembly of a larger product.  Six purchase orders were issued and the parts […]
June 15, 2021

Engraving vs. Ink Stamping

Challenge: A purchase order was issued for two separate part numbers that required rubber ink stamping of the part number onto the parts.  Each part must contain […]
June 15, 2021

Alternate Materials

Challenge: This material specified a requirement to use 7075-T73 aluminum per AMS-QQ-A200/11 Solution: A more common aerospace aluminum is 7075-T7351 per AMS-QQ-A-225-9.   After several searches for the originally […]