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Heavy Equipment & Plant Maintenance

Custom Kitting & Cut-to-Length Rods for Heavy Machinery Overhauls

How pre-packaged assembly kits cut overhaul labor time by 40% for an equipment rebuilder.

40%
faster machinery assembly
1,200+
custom cut rods/mo
0
missing part errors
The Challenge

Where They Started

Olympic Industrial overhauled heavy hydraulic and forestry machinery. Mechanics spent hours sorting loose fasteners and cutting standard all-thread rods to size, leading to wasted billable labor and assembly errors.

Assembly cycle times reduced by 40% per overhaul package

Precision chamfered cut-to-length B7 alloy threaded rods delivered ready-to-install

Individual poly-bagged hardware packs labeled with equipment overhaul kit numbers

Eliminated scrap rod waste in the client's shop

Our Implementation

How We Solved It

1

BOM Standardization

Mapped all overhaul hardware requirements into repeatable standardized assembly kits.

2

In-House Precision Cutting

Cut and chamfered high-tensile B7 threaded rods to exact millimeter tolerances.

3

Kit Bagging & Labeling

Packaged complete fastener sub-assemblies with custom part numbers and job tags.

4

Kanban Delivery

Delivered pre-assembled kit batches on a scheduled Kanban replenishment cycle.

"Pre-bagged kits and custom-cut B7 rods transformed our overhaul floor. Our techs grab the bag and start building. Northwest Fasteners pays for itself in labor savings every month."

RK
Ray Kowalski
Director of Operations, Olympic Industrial

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