Six Ways to Reduce Supply Chain Risk in Manufacturing
May 1, 2024 | With the supply chain challenges facing manufacturing executives over the past few years, among the many things occupying their thoughts are questions about their own supply chain, particularly when it comes to fastener solutions. Minimizing risk and ensuring part availability, quality and inventory management factor heavily into their supply chain teams’ short and long-term plans.
What Are the Key Supply Chain Management Strategies for OEMs?
March 25, 2024 | Avoiding risks might be impossible, but you can mitigate them by choosing the ideal partners, strategies, and resources for fastener procurement. Being competitive in the manufacturing industry means ensuring access to required fastener parts while continually improving productivity, shortening lead times, and saving money. Essentially, the shorter and simpler your supply chain is, the better.
Streamline Your Supply of Quality Parts for Trucks & Trailers
February 13, 2024 | Having a streamline supply of quality parts is a key ingredient to success for truck and trailer manufacturers. With Class 7 and 8 commercial vehicle production growing to 23.7 million units worldwide in 2023, the number of heavy goods trailers in daily use is prolific. Yet, with governments and environmental considerations influencing the reduction of CO2 emissions, trailer manufacturers are challenged to reimagine the design and production of their builds and to ensure they utilize quality parts.
Technical Insight Into Hardened and Unhardened Flat Washers
December 20, 2023 | It is common to think of a nut or bolt as the weak part of a product, but often that is not the case. By tweaking the type of fastener material, size or other specifications, manufacturing engineers, can resolve torque, weight, stability and durability issues with no change to assembly or procedure.
Optimas Aims to Provide ‘Options’ with New Factory in Mexico
December 11, 2023 | Optimas Solutions provides distribution services from locations across the globe, but its manufacturing operations have long been centered on just two: its headquarters in suburban Chicago, and a plant in the west of England.
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