与紧固件制造工程师合作的 3 种方式

The fastener is one of the most fundamental components in nearly everything produced. From heavy trucks and bridges and tunnels, to the washing machine in your home, they’re all held together by fasteners.

As a fastener manufacturing engineer with nearly 30 years in the business, it’s my job to ensure your customers have confidence in the quality and reliability of your product and that you optimise your assembly processes. Adding fastener manufacturing expertise to your tea,  like the kind at Optimas, offers unique value both to your company and to your end user.

以下是我在下一个产品创新周期中增加一位经验丰富的紧固件制造工程师的三大理由。

1. 紧固件制造工程师从概念到生产增加价值

While a fastener manufacturing engineer can bring value to a project at any point, it’s especially useful to be a part of our customer’s projects right from the start. A lot of times fasteners get overlooked, but bringing a fastener manufacturing engineer in early at the design phase can reduce your costs, improve assembly processes and ultimately raise profits.

绝大多数情况下，最好在产品发布前主动设计，而不是在产品上市后被动改变。

在 Optimas，我们的工程和质量团队成员在紧固件制造和为与我们自己的客户非常相似的公司工作方面拥有多年经验。我们了解客户的心态，并希望分享这种体验，以帮助您提高产品价值。

与紧固件制造工程师合作时，请回答这些常见问题：

• 你真正的需求是什么？您可以在哪些方面从专家支持中获益最多？
• 你想达到什么目的？
• 您的产品如何使用以及在哪里使用？

有了这些信息，紧固件制造工程师就可以了解产品的关键功能、具体需求，以及同样重要的改进和增值机会。

根据我们的经验，我们能够降低初始成本、降低总体成本（有时通过在生产早期增加成本）、提高质量和性能、优化装配、创造更好的设计、缩短交货时间，并且 为您最大的挑战提供更简单的解决方案.

The earlier that an engineering partner such as Optimas becomes involved, the more ingrained the performance benefits of your finished product, and the faster you’re able to get your product to market.

2.经验丰富的紧固件制造工程师可以提高您的生产效率

When it comes to manufacturing, we believe few things are more important than improving efficiency. Whether it’s production times, design, materials, cost, or processes, the way to maximise your margins and other key performance indicators optimising your processes.

紧固件制造工程师不仅关注紧固件，还关注紧固——如何使用部件将产品固定在一起以及在安装中的使用效率。您会惊讶于错误的零件或装配过程会导致多少返工、人工成本和报废。

When you’re so deeply invested in a product’s success, you don’t always know what you don’t know.

A fastener manufacturing engineer’s wealth of experience can help break down your design and specifications to its most basic steps and fine-tune the process to maximise efficiency of production and overall product quality. Questions a manufacturing engineer can answer, before committing to a production run, include:

• Is the right material being used to maximise the product’s lifecycle?
• 能否以更经济的方式简化设计或制造？
• Are there components that aren’t necessary?
• 是否有替代材料可以改善功能？

在制造业中，在生产事务上节省的每一秒，紧固件制造工程师都有能力帮助您降低成本和改进流程，而不会降低产品质量。

3.紧固件制造工程师可以提供定制

At Optimas, I’m proud to say our team offers something that remains pretty rare in fastener manufacturing, and that’s the ability to deliver truly customised solutions.

无论您是改变设计规范还是重新构想流程，定制工程紧固解决方案都可以提供您所需的一切，同时增加所有重要的价值和效率。

使用标准零件通常感觉就像试图将方形钉子放入圆孔中。对于定制制造的零件，紧固件制造工程师将与您的团队合作，设计合适的零件解决方案，以满足您独特的设计要求和装配需求。这可以从高度工程化的零件到二次加工和特殊材料。

相信我们能优化您的下一个伟大项目

紧固件可能只占您预算的 1%，但它们最多可占您的零部件的 50%。 It’s easy to take them for granted until something goes wrong, creating a cascade effect.

当您与 Optimas 紧固件制造工程师一起工作时，我们了解您的风险并重视您对我们的信任。凭借最先进的技术、更广泛的零件和材料以及应用经验，我们的团队可以确保性能和成本之间的平衡。

From prototyping and quality testing to in-house tooling and secondary operations, we offer custom engineered fastening solutions when the demands of your product exceed what standard hardware can’t accomplish. This results in faster process time, faster time to market, a higher quality, and a cleaner look because the components used were developed specifically for you and your business.

We’re proud to be an award-winning, full-service supply chain and manufacturing solutions provider with access to many resources you won’t find anywhere else and a willingness to go the extra mile — above what you expected and beyond what our competition can offer. Contact us to maximise your efficiencies.