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Benchmarking

Learning to Decrease Machine Design and Build Costs

OEM finds new ways to stay competitive

In a challenging economy and competitive market this OEM learned how to decrease the cost of its machine design and build process.
This OEM developed a design process that begins with a brainstorming session with the entire engineering team. This has resulted in many new design and build ideas that have produced real cost savings.
The OEM calculates its revenue-per-employee and has determined that its current status exceeds the industry norm by more than $100K per employee.

Phil Warga has always been the kind of engineer who believed in thinking outside the box, as the saying goes. Following a long career of 25 years in the automotive test equipment business at companies such as Forester Instruments in Pittsburgh, Phil opened Salem Design & Manufacturing in Salem, Ohio in 2004. Here, he and his engineering team design and build a variety of highly application-specific, custom machinery for the gauging and inspection of precision components. Typical measuring technologies employed here include eddy current, mechanical gauging, ultrasonic and laser vision inspection systems, along with other devices.

Read more to find out how this OEM saved costs on all these assemblies.

New Products

Did you know MISUMI offers a complete line of other mechanical components? Did you also know the 2008 catalog features many NEW products for each of these lines? See below for further details and click the link for more information on each.

Rollers
Rollers with Selectable Urethane Thickness Rollers with Key Groove Rollers with a set screw at both ends Press Fit Straight Rollers Conveyor Tubular Rollers Resin Rollers More >>
Ball Screws
Ball Screws with a thread diameter of 12, Lead 2 and C5, C7 precision grade High Lead Ball Screws with a thread diameter of 15, 20, Lead 40 and C5 precision grade Rolled Ball Screws with a block nut and thread diameter of 15, 20, 25 Lead 10 and C10 precision grade Rolled Ball Screws with specified shaft ends and C10 precision grade Miniature Slide Screws with stepped and double stepped ends Lead Screws with double stepped and triple stepped ends Lead Screws with center bearing support More >>
Bearings
Bearings with set screws Needle Roller Bearings and Thrust Needle Roller Bearings More >>
Actuators
KUA Series Actuators LX Series Actuators More >>
Stages
X-Axis Stages - dovetail groove - standard knob X-Axis Stages - coarse fine Z-Axis Stages Z-Axis Level Stages X-Axis Stages - dovetail groove - feed screw Z-Axis X-Level Stages XY-Axis Stages X-Axis Stages Z-Axis Stages XZ-Axis / XYZ-Axis Stages - dovetail groove-combination X-Axis Stages Z-Axis Stages - Long Stroke Multi-Mount Stages - dovetail groove - feed screw - rack & pinion XZ-Axis Stages XY-Axis Stages / XYZ-Axis Stages X-Stages - cross roller Revolving Stages - cross roller XYZ Miniature Stages Tilt Stages More >>
Aluminum Extrusions
High rigidity aluminum extrusions Fixed length aluminum extrusions Non standard profile aluminum extrusions More >>
Handles
Folding Revolving Grip Handles Threaded Handles U-shape Handles Casting Handles Welded Handles Aluminum Pipe Handles Spring Handles Rotary Handles Embedded Handles More >>
Levers
Y-shaped Wing-shaped and flat levers Push button levers Resin levers Tension/Safety levers Hexagon socket head cap levers More >>
Casters
Economy light load casters Space saving casters Low profile stainless steel casters Premium heavy load casters Double wheeled casters Clean room casters Miniature casters More >>
Couplings
High Rigidity Couplings with outer diameters of 40, 65 and 87 More >>
Pulleys
Pulleys for flat belts More >>
Configurable Plates
Precision resin plates 1049 carbon steel 2-surface finish plates JIS-S55CN configurable plates Special steel configurable plates Annealed 303/304 stainless steel configurable plates 316 stainless steel configurable plates JIS-SUS430 configurable plates High precision configurable plates JIS-ANP79 configurable plates Worked circular plates More >>
Configurable Angles
Configurable angles with selectable thickness Configurable angles with inner side precision perpendicularity Angle with outer side precision perpendicularity Compact precision angle plates with casting configurable (mounting hole) Precision angle plates with selectable hole sizes Slot angle plates Wide angle plates Configurable angle plates More >>