與緊固件製造工程師合作的 3 種方式

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.

以下是我在下一個產品創新週期中添加經驗豐富的緊固件製造工程師的三大原因。

1. 緊固件製造工程師從概念到生產增加價值

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.

在絕大多數情況下，最好在產品發布之前主動設計，而不是在產品推出市場後被動改變。

在 Optimas，我們的工程和質量團隊成員在緊固件製造和為與我們自己的客戶非常相似的公司工作方面擁有多年經驗。我們了解客戶的心態，並希望分享這種體驗，以幫助您提高產品價值。

與緊固件製造工程師合作時，請回答這些常見問題：

• 你真正的需求是什麼？您可以在哪些方面從專家支持中獲益最多？
• 你想達到什麼目的？
• 您的產品如何使用以及在哪裡使用？

有了這些訊息，緊固件製造工程師就可以了解產品的關鍵功能、具體需求，以及同樣重要的改進和附加價值的機會。

根據我們的經驗，我們已經能夠降低初始成本、降低整體成本（有時透過在生產早期增加成本）、提高品質和性能、優化組裝、創建更好的設計、縮短交貨時間，以及 為您最大的挑戰提供更簡單的解決方案.

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.經驗豐富的緊固件製造工程師可以提高您的生產效率

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.

緊固件製造工程師不僅關注緊固件，還關注緊固——如何使用部件將產品固定在一起以及在安裝中的使用效率。您會驚訝於錯誤的零件或裝配過程會導致多少返工、人工成本和報廢。

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?
• 能否以更經濟的方式簡化設計或製造？
• Are there components that aren’t necessary?
• 是否有替代材料可以改善功能？

在製造業中，在生產事務上節省的每一秒，緊固件製造工程師都有能力幫助您降低成本和改進流程，而不會降低產品質量。

3. 緊固件製造工程師可以提供客製化服務

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.

無論您是要更改設計規格還是重新設計流程，客製化的工程緊固解決方案都可以提供您所需的一切，同時增加最重要的價值和效率。

使用標準零件通常感覺就像試圖將方釘安裝到圓孔中。對於客製化製造的零件，緊固件製造工程師將與您的團隊合作設計正確的零件解決方案，以滿足您獨特的設計要求和組裝需求。這可以涵蓋從高度工程化的零件到二次加工和特殊材料。

相信我們可以優化您的下一個偉大項目

緊固件可能只佔您預算的 1%，但它們最多可佔您的零部件的 50%。 It’s easy to take them for granted until something goes wrong, creating a cascade effect.

當您與 Optimas 緊固件製造工程師一起工作時，我們了解您的風險並重視您對我們的信任。憑藉最先進的技術、更廣泛的零件和材料以及應用經驗，我們的團隊可以確保性能和成本之間的平衡。

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.