MVI's Commitment To Customer Success & Solutions
As your Machining and fabrication partner, MVI is committed to your success and providing innovative solutions for all your machining needs. Through our tested process of innovation, dedication technology and service to your specific needs, MVI leads the industry in providing multiple industries with proven machining solutions.
Success Stories
At MVI, we believe it's all about getting results for our clients. Here are just a few of the many problems a handful of our client's have faced and the innovative and cost saving precision machining solutions MVI has produced for them....
PROBLEM – reduce costs to make a hardened Bearing Roller. DESCRIPTION - The Bearing Rollers are hardened to 400 BHN and they had to cylindrical grind the profile on each one to hold the tight tolerances specified.
SOLUTION = We broke down the entire process from start-to-finish and came up with a pre-machining, heat treat, then final machining process utilizing advanced hard tooling that eliminated cylindrical grinding. BENEFITS: Costs savings of 30% and reduced lead time from 56 days to 34 days. PROBLEM – How to make a hardened Cam Roller without Jig Grinding.
DESCRIPTION - The Rollers are flame hardened to 54 RC minimum and the old process used fixtures and jig grinding to complete the profile and hold the tight tolerances.
SOLUTION = We assessed the existing process and heat treating; then altered all processes to eliminate jig grinding by hard milling with advanced tooling. BENEFITS: Costs savings of 10% and reduced lead time from 54 days to 28 days. PROBLEM – reduce the time needed to complete complex hardened Cam Roller.
DESCRIPTION – lead time to complete the finish machining operations was 2 weeks longer than the market would accept. SOLUTION = Create a Supermarket to hold parts in a semi-finished state, implement a velocity program giving these parts priority shop scheduling. BENEFITS: Reduced lead time from 24 days to 14 days. PROBLEM – Customer had a cast iron Gearbox that was worn out and non-functioning. Specification and drawings were available from the OEM.
DESCRIPTION – The Gearbox was originally manufactured before 1940 as a casting. The casting patterns were not available and new patterns were expensive with a long lead time. SOLUTION = We converted the cast iron Gearbox into a fabrication and supplied a complete unit assembly including all Gears, Shafts, Bearings, pumps, lube lines, etc. BENEFITS: Cost savings of 60% from pattern and casting alone and reduced lead time by 30 weeks. PROBLEM – Customer had a pair of large Bronze Nuts with the internal threads wore out. Specification and drawings were not available from the OEM.
DESCRIPTION – Each Bronze Nut weighed 3,000 LBS and was assembled onto a large hydraulic press 50 feet up in the air. Customer could not afford to take the machine down for repairs, or remove the Nuts for reverse engineering. SOLUTION = We took our portable FARO CMM Arm to the Customer’s site, went to the top of the press and took readings on the threads. We then made a split Aluminum sample Nut to test our readings on the actual threads. After a few minor adjustments, we machined the new Bronze Nuts and delivered to the Customer on time. BENEFITS: Priceless – these large Nuts were not available from the OEM Manufacturer and without replacements the press would have gone down permanently. PROBLEM – provide a standard napkin roll with interchangeable Customer logos
DESCRIPTION – Typically every fast food Customer has their own logo on their napkins, however the napkins themselves are similar. SOLUTION = We machined a pocket into the napkin roll for a logo plate, then machined different logo plates to fit into that pocket for interchangeability BENEFITS: Cost savings, reduced roll inventory and faster tooling changes for the Converting Customers. |
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