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 […]
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Continuous Innovation: What is it? At Fastco, we believe in continuous innovation. But how does innovation happen? It happens through small actions, through thoughts that spark ideas that turn into discussions, which turn into trying something new. It all starts with our team members. Ergonomic Improvements are Essential Over the last several years, Fastco has […]
Productivity Improvements in Inspection In recent months, Inspection has made great strides in improving productivity through our mini game, which started in May and ran through July. Mini games are part of playing the Great Game of Business, which Fastco has been doing for over two years. The purpose of the mini-games is to bring […]
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Visual Sorting: Human vs. Robot
Visual Sorting: Human vs. Robot At Fastco, we use have a few different options for visual sorting parts. There’s EZ sort (shown in the video) in which parts feed down a track and a person inspects them as they pass. There is also table sorting, in which a person picks up and inspects parts by […]
The Process of Cold Heading Manufacturing What does the process of producing cold headed fasteners look like? And how does raw material become a fastener? This infographic outlines the process of cold heading manufacturing in 7 steps. Step 1: Raw Material First, we establish the rod size and material type based on print and […]
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Thread Roll Update
Thread Roll Update 2023 Thread Roll’s Improvement in Cost of Poor Quality This year, Thread Roll’s greatest achievement has been reducing our cost of poor quality. As of the end of June, we were at about half the COPQ as we were at this time in 2022, so this is a huge achievement. We are […]
Cooling Inflation and Improving Supply Chains: Lessons from the Chaos The latest inflation report from the Fed shows that inflation continues to cool. This year through May, overall U.S. consumer prices rose 4%, not including the volatile markets of food and energy (core CPI was 5.33%). This is the slowest rate of growth in […]
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Cold Heading Initiatives
Department Updates: Cold Heading Initiatives In 2023, Cold Heading has been working on several initiatives. For this reason we have developed an “SQDC” board in every bay. SQDC stands for: Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost. Safety, Quality Delivery, and Cost First and foremost is Safety. Working safely every day is and always will be […]
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Stainless Steel Alloy
What exactly is a stainless steel alloy? Simply put, stainless steel is an iron and chromium alloy containing at least 10.5% chromium. Other common additives include: Nickel – Nickel containing grades make up 75% of stainless steel production. In fact, more than two thirds of global nickel produced is used in the production of stainless […]
Direct, In-House Administrative Support The Finance/IT/HR department provides administrative support for the entire company. The primary function of this department is to support manufacturing by ensuring our network systems function smoothly, keeping our financials in order, and managing the employee life cycle. These are functions that can be outsourced. However, having internal and direct support […]