情況
A global commercial garage door manufacturer sourced machined brass components for one of its overhead commercial door openers. When market demand increased, the lengthy manufacturing process resulted in long lead times causing inventory shortages and production downtime.

解
這 Optimas engineering team performed a product teardown and determined two opportunities to improve the brass brake spring cup: materials and manufacturing process. While brass parts offered corrosion protection, the screw machined process placed additional stress on the supply chain. The supplier often struggled to meet the manufacturer’s production demands.

Optimas建議使用冷成型的低碳鋼替代品，該產品具有電鍍鋅和透明的鉻酸鹽塗層。鋼鐵替代品降低了零件成本，還滿足了製造商在運輸和零件處理過程中防腐蝕的要求。指定冷成型部件具有許多好處，包括簡化的製造工藝，更少的浪費，更快的交貨時間和更高的生產效率。也可以開始製造而無需對任何配合組件進行設計更改，而這會在實施過程中增加價值。

結果
通過聘請Optimas作為緊固件專家，這家商業車庫門製造商同時解決了供應鍊和應用問題。通過重新設計單個組件，Optimas創造了價值並加強了現有供應鏈：

• 保存的$120,000 年度費用
• 零件成本降低75% 與替代鋼保持腐蝕防護
• 提高生產效率 具有冷成型零件
• 消除了線路中斷 交貨時間縮短