This production part was previously made in China and suffered from quality issues, frequent shipping damage and the need to receive an entire year’s worth of parts in one shipment. Wisconsin Metal Parts took over this project, eliminated the quality problems and set up a kanban agreement for us to ship releases to our customer as needed. We eliminated the shipping damage by using proper packaging techniques. Due to the large number of holes, WMP gang-punched these parts in our Trumpf punching machine where we could also tap right in the machine. We supplied these parts plated, with hardware installed, as shown in the photo.
When all factors are considered, we were able to offer this customer an overall cost saving on these assemblies vs. producing them in China.
Secondary: Brake Press, Hardware Insertion
Formed part – Calipers
FAIR sampling on initial parts
