Engineering Services

ENGINEERING SERVICES

Our expert application and quality engineers proactively find ways to save money, improve product performance and mitigate risks. Read on to learn more about our mechanical engineering services, or contact one of our experts today.

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Global Engineering Expertise

Optimas’ dedicated team of designers and engineers across the world can work on a project basis or on-site with your engineering department. This close relationship allows us to play an active role from product development to the assembly line—where quality and productivity matter most. We focus on delivering cost savings while maintaining or improving quality through our mechanical engineering services. Armed with years of effective inventory management expertise, we’ll take over the management of your parts—whether the parts are sourced through Optimas, customer-directed or customer-owned.

Design Support

    Whether you’re designing a new product or improving an existing one, our fastener engineering and cold forging experts will find the right solution that saves cost without sacrificing quality. Our mechanical engineering design services include:

  • Product development, analysis and performance testing (e.g. torque/tension)
  • Rapid design prototyping and sampling with 3D printing
  • Re-engineering of existing fasteners
  • Value analysis and value engineering
  • Finding the right fit per application

> CASE STUDY: Saved $120K with Redesigned Part

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Optimas engineers have an average of 20 years’ experience specializing in fastener design

Inventory Optimization

Streamline your bill of materials and increase your speed to market with these expert mechanical engineering design services:

PART RATIONALIZATION AND STANDARDIZATION
Through a part assortment analysis, we’ll uncover ways to consolidate and standardize your SKUs to reduce cost and complexity.

PRODUCT TEARDOWNS
We’ll disassemble your product down to its components and then finds ways to re-engineer the product for design, cost and quality improvements.

> CASE STUDY: Achieved 79% Part Reduction

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Deliver cost savings, never compromising the engineering quality of the final product

Operational Efficiency

As a distributor and manufacturer, we’ve been in your shoes and can quickly recognize what industrial manufacturing solutions will enhance your efficiency. Our manufacturing process management experts will “walk the line” with you to assess your operations for increased productivity and labor savings, such as:

  • Ergonomic parts, tooling and assemblies
  • Kitting and sub-assembly
  • Lean 5S Programs

> CASE STUDY: Saved $5.9M in Lifetime Costs

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Market-leading fastener and manufacturing expertise for over 100 years

Quality Planning and Testing

Our dedicated team of quality engineers can help you address a broad range of customer, industry and regulatory-specific requirements for improved product integrity, increased efficiencies and better overall performance. Services include:

  • Inspection, measurement and full material testing
  • Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Root Cause Analysis and Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA) with corrective actions
  • Global PPAP Center of Excellence for processing quick and accurate part approvals
  • Lean Six Sigma for continuous improvements

> CASE STUDY: Improved Part Quality by 95%

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We’re committed to a zero-defect culture

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