Engineering services that ship with the parts.
We do not stop at cold heading. From joint design and DFM to samples, validation, failure analysis and process cost-down — the same engineers who run the lines support your program end to end.
Fastener technology training for your engineering team
Many field issues trace back to a joint that was specified correctly but assembled or selected without fastener literacy. Our engineering team runs on-site and remote training workshops for your mechanical, quality and procurement engineers — practical, not theoretical.
- Fastener materials, grades and heat-treatment classes you will actually buy
- Standards in daily use: ISO, DIN, ASME/ANSI and company specs
- Failure modes — stripping, fatigue, self-loosening, galvanic corrosion
- Torque control, friction coefficient and audit-friendly assembly
What you get
- Half-day to two-day workshops, on-site or online
- Custom case studies from your own drawings and failures
- Trainee notes and a joint-design checklist to take away
DFM / DFA joint design and material selection
Bring us the joint early. We review your design for formability, assembly cost and service behavior before tooling is cut — turning a 2-week engineering exchange into a one-day answer.
- Design-for-manufacture and design-for-assembly review
- Material and surface selection matched to the housing alloy
- Tolerance stack-up and engagement-length calculation
- Torque-angle and controlled-friction assembly strategy
What you get
- Written DFM report with redlined drawings
- Weight vs. cost trade-off for critical joints
- Recommendation you can drop straight into your BOM
1-day to 1-week prototype turnaround
No one wants to wait six weeks to prove a geometry. We run soft-tool cold-headed and machined prototypes from your PDF or STEP — fast enough to iterate design before you freeze a production tool.
- Cold-headed soft-tool samples in 1–5 working days
- CNC-machined one-offs for geometry you cannot yet cold form
- First-article dimensions and photo documentation per sample
- Multiple variants in the same batch for A/B testing
What you get
- Proven samples in your hands within days
- First-article inspection report per piece
- No minimum order to start a prototype
Validation in our IATF 16949 lab
Our in-house laboratory runs the tests that release your joint to production — tensile, torque, fatigue, salt spray, dimensional CMM and metallographic cross-sections, with batch-traceable records.
- Tensile, wedge and torque-to-failure to ISO / ASTM
- Fatigue and self-loosening (vibration) screening
- Neutral salt-spray and coating thickness verification
- CMM dimensional inspection and metallographic analysis
What you get
- Test reports you can attach to your PPAP / PSW
- Batch-traceable certificates, every time
- Test protocols agreed with your quality team up front
Competitor and failure teardown
When a joint fails in the field or a competitor part costs half yours, we tear it down. Cross-section, hard-material ID, dimensional reconstruction and cost benchmarking — so you know exactly what you are up against.
- Root-cause analysis of field and in-line failures
- Competitor part teardown and reverse costing
- Cross-section, hardness map and material ID
- Cost-to-baseline report with redesign recommendations
What you get
- A structured report, not a box of loose parts
- Quantified root cause with supporting microscopy
- Actionable redesign or cost-down recommendation
Cost-down and yield improvement
Already buying standard parts? That is often the expensive option. Our process engineers convert machined or assembled parts to cold heading, tune lubrication and thread rolling, and raise yield on programs already in production.
- Cold-heading conversion of CNC and turned parts
- Tool-life and die-cost reduction programs
- Yield and scrap analysis across the line
- Assembly consolidation — combine two parts into one
What you get
- Quoted cost-down target, measured in the next PPV cycle
- Yield data before/after your line runs
- Process controls that stay in place after we leave
Have a joint that needs more than a catalog number?
Send the drawing, annual volume and the problem you are solving — our engineers will reply with a concrete first step within one working day.
