Precision Assembly Services That Shorten and Simplify Your Production Process
If you have limited internal resources or need an expert in precision assembly, trust that Westlake Tool & Die can provide you with exactly what you’re looking for. We’re uniquely equipped to handle all of your project’s finishing touches – regardless of complexity – because we care about the details and have experience assembling products for many industries.
Assembly is also where the rest of the shop comes together. Because stamping, welding, machining, and final assembly all happen in the same building, we are able to take over the part of your supply chain that is hardest to manage and hand back a finished, packaged product.
Read on to learn more about our component assemblies and how our team can best accommodate your project needs.
One Supplier Instead of Five: Where Assembly Services Close the Loop
Most buyers are not short on suppliers. They are worn down by managing them. The stamped part comes from one vendor, the weldment from another, the machined component from a third, and someone on staff spends the week chasing all of it. Every supplier added to that list brings another purchase order, longer lead times, and other potential points of failure.
Westlake Tool & Die closes that loop. We produce the components ourselves through metal stamping, robotic welding, and CNC machining, then bring them together through precision assembly under the same roof. When it’s more efficient, we outsource select subcomponents, such as fasteners, through our strong local vendor network in Cleveland, while managing every supplier ourselves so you still deal with one partner, start to finish. One purchase order covers the finished product rather than the pieces that go into it.
For our customers, that means fewer vendors to qualify, fewer invoices to reconcile, and one point of accountability when a question comes up. Assembly is frequently the capability that makes or breaks a project, because it’s the step that turns a group of purchased parts into a product ready to sell.
What to Know About Die Assembly
As industry experts are aware, precision assembly is a common manufacturing process that involves the construction of complex products and components. During the fabrication process, each component is carefully placed to optimize equipment performance and prevent any malfunctions during usage.
Just some of the benefits of utilizing component assemblies include:
- Improved accuracy and tighter tolerances
- Decreased waste materials
- Increased safety and decreased human error
- Cost-effectiveness over traditional practices
- Enhanced efficiency and faster production cycles
Additionally, some of the industry-specific, semi-finished assemblies we’ve completed in-house include:
- Sections of conveyor belt systems for canning, bottling, and packaging
- Refrigeration and air conditioning systems for food processors
- HVAC components
- Fixtures for the plumbing industry
- Parts used in washers, dryers, stoves, and refrigerators
- Safety and braking mechanisms for lawn equipment
- Transformer components
- Brake components for single-engine planes
- Structural frameworks and battery mounting fixtures for electric vehicle production
Plus, when choosing our precision assembly services, you will receive the exact products you need in a shorter amount of time. Meanwhile, your internal resources remain free to concentrate on critical business functions like selling.
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About Our Precision Assembly Services: Process and Capabilities
Westlake Tool & Die can handle your precise assembly operations and all of the complementary services that help ensure precision prior to and after assembly, from part management and sourcing to packaging, warehousing, and shipping.
Our internal processes allow us to offer customers complete flexibility, and because of this we can:
- Use our extensive supplier database to purchase any high-quality ancillary goods your product may need (or use the ancillary goods sourced by you)
- Maintain a detailed bill of materials (BOM) for each of your products, ensuring you only need to worry about the purchase of the final product
- Package your product to exact specifications
- Source printed materials, such as directions or operating manuals, and include them in the packaging
Our supplier database lets us source the ancillary non-metal goods a finished product requires, including screws, fasteners, plastics, and gaskets, all tracked under a single bill of materials. We print the operating manuals, package the product to your exact specifications, and ship it directly to your end user. By doing so, we function as a full contract manufacturer rather than a parts supplier.
Warehousing, Bill-on-Ship, and Just-In-Time Delivery
A finished product does not have to ship the day it’s built. We can hold your completed, packaged inventory in our warehouse and release it exactly when you need it. Under a bill-on-ship arrangement, you are invoiced when the parts leave our dock, not when they come off the line. Your capital stays in your business until the product is actually in motion.
After your finished products are assembled and packaged to spec, we can either ship directly to your facility or warehouse products at Westlake Tool & Die until you’re ready to use them. Each customer has the option to use our facility as a warehouse and distribution center, and local customers even get no-cost deliveries.
When your most essential parts and products are stored safely and securely at Westlake Tool & Die, you will greatly reduce your inventory levels, and your overhead.
Delivery to Temporary and Remote Job Sites
Some operations have nowhere to put inventory at all. In mining, a site may be active for a matter of months, and the crew works out of vans and trailers with no warehouse behind them. Holding a quarter of stock on site is not an option. We stage that inventory here and deliver it to the active location as the project calls for it, which is just-in-time delivery in the most literal sense. The same applies to energy work, field service, and any operation where the job moves before the inventory does.
Finally, by having us handle all of your contract manufacturing and assembly services, you can greatly reduce your lead times, spend less on inventory management and on-hand inventory, lower your overall shipping costs, and create a greater cash flow for your business.
Assembly for Battery, Electric Vehicle, and Structural Applications
Assembly means something different depending on the industry. In electric vehicle and battery production, it means complete structural frameworks, battery-mounting fixtures, and garage-mount systems built to hold heavy components in position for the life of the vehicle. Those builds depend on robotic welding for repeatable joints across long production runs, and on tooling that holds tolerance from the first part to the last. We build the frames and fixtures, verify the fit, and package the finished assemblies for delivery.
The pattern holds across the industries we serve. The components change, the tolerances change, and the reason for bringing the work under one roof does not.
Contact Us for Semi-Finished Assemblies
If you’re interested in a precision assembly for your industrial applications, feel free to contact our team today with any questions you have or to get started. We look forward to hearing from you.