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Fastener Coatings A fastener’s job is to connect and secure objects to one another. It is essential that applications use the appropriate fastener for structural integrity. This includes taking into consideration a fastener’s coating. Coatings provide protection to the metal underneath. Since exposure to harsh environments or chemicals can drastically shorten a fastener’s life span, […]
Quality Department Spotlight For this Department Spotlight, we are highlighting the Quality Department’s progress in 2023. In 2023, the Quality Department’s greatest achievement was helping to lower the Cost of Poor Quality/Scrap by performing extra audits when needed in various areas to aid in this. While the end of the year’s COPQ was not ideal, […]
Favorite Fasteners Roundup 2.0 It’s time for another Favorite Fasteners Roundup (version 2.0 – see version 1.0 here.) This week, we are rounding up five more favorite fastener spotlights. Click on the links to learn more about each of these types of fasteners. Sheet Metal Screws These fully-threaded screws with a pointed end are used […]
Production Control Update It’s time for a Production Control Update from the department that manages logistics, material handling, and trucking. This year, the Production Control Department’s greatest achievement has been taking a more active role in managing our raw material supply chain. We’ve worked hard to negotiate pricing with our long-time steel suppliers and keep […]
What is Lean Manufacturing and Why Does it Matter? The concept of lean manufacturing is, arguably, centuries old. Some say it dates back to Shigeo Shingo and Taiichi Ohno and the Toyota Production System. In the late 1980s and 1990s, TPS became lean manufacturing. The term was first coined by quality engineer John Krafcik in […]
Tool Room Update Recently, the Tool Room’s greatest achievement has been the ability to keep up with required production. We have been a little short-handed. All of our tool room personnel have done a great job working together to keep the tooling output at a high level in order to minimize downtime in other areas […]
Favorite Fasteners Roundup It’s time for a Favorite Fasteners Roundup! This week, we are rounding up some of our favorite fastener spotlights. Here’s our top five fasteners to make and why. Click on the links to learn more about each of these types of fasteners. Concrete Anchor Bolts: These big boys are Fastco’s bread […]
Maintenance Department Update This year, the Maintenance Department a lot to be proud of, but it’s greatest achievement has been completing repairs and projects in a timely manner, despite working with fewer team members and several new team members. Though we have a small crew, we are continuing to keep unplanned maintenance downtime low. Maintenance […]
The UAW Strike: What will it mean for supply chains? And how can we weather the storm? There is a general consensus among most economists that a short-lived United Autoworkers (UAW) Strike will probably have limited consequences for supply chains. For one, these last few years have been wrought with supply chain shortages that could […]
Customer Service and Distribution Update for 2023 I’m very proud of our team for meeting their accuracy metric of .22% or fewer errors vs. lines shipped per month all but one of the last 19 months. Any mistakes made in our departments are very visible to the customer, and we want to ensure Fastco is […]
