FCG Delivers High Volume Production Experience
Forest City Gear is actively seeking a customer, or customers, that have higher volume parts production requirements. Forest City Gear would build a dedicated machining cell designed to optimize the production of that customer’s particular part family, thus helping the customer reduce inventory, floorspace, manpower, machine investment and, ultimately, workpiece cost. Forest City Gear of course benefits from a predictable, repeatable, and very manageable workflow. Mains says Forest City Gear would likely design and build a cell with all the components necessary to produce gears from blanks to finished gear.
“Right now we’re quoting a cell for the production of a part family of automotive transmission gears that would require turning, shaping, deburring, shot peening and inspection,” Mains says. “Other cell scenarios would of course include other soft manufacturing and hard finishing technologies. All would involve some level of load/unload automation. We would allocate existing floorspace in one of our plants or perhaps build out additional floorspace to accommodate the cell. The end result would be a system producing gears with typical Forest City Gear precision – but at much higher volumes.”
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