How better inventory management benefits hardware insertion
THE FABRICATOR® MAY 2014
APRIL 28, 2014BY: TIM HESTON
How do you error-proof a hardware insertion operation? One half involves the hardware insertion process itself, including proper training, but the other half entails inventory management: making sure operators have easy access to the right hardware at the right time.
Missing or incorrect hardware got under Ed Kittelson’s skin. Nothing was worse than answering a call from an annoyed customer about a batch of parts with incorrect or missing hardware. So the president of Micron Metalworks, a Ham Lake, Minn., custom fabricator, and his management team decided to do something about it.
They labeled and organized the fastener inventory. They bagged fasteners to ensure every part in a batch had all the fasteners it needed. If there were fasteners left in a bag, there was a problem. (…)
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