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Engineered Products Group - Engineering and Product Design
In a world of lean management, outsourcing is a fact of business life, for both seasonal surges and year round production. The OEMs we serve choose us for our innovative engineering designs and manufacturing competencies. The Company has established a strong reputation as a full-service provider of complex, highly engineered and fully designed products. At Western Industries, our disciplined process begins with the customer's need and continues through ongoing customer service.
Advanced Product Development
Western employs this same discipline to the development of new innovations and proprietary technologies. A dedicated staff of engineers examines future market and customer needs and creates solutions to satisfy the next generation of product requirements. Our APD Team collaborates with your Marketing/Engineering groups to develop product features and styling, as well as integration of technology beyond today’s currently available product offerings. Since Western does not market products under their own brand, these technologies are available for integration into our customer’s products, without concern for end product competition.
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Engineering philosophy |
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Design and Engineering
Western utilizes New Product Realization (NPR) disciplines with its customers
to help them convert early stage concepts into complex, highly engineered
products that can be cost effectively manufactured, assembled and shipped
nationwide. The company's market focused engineers have particular expertise
in finding ways to minimize material and labor content to complete the product,
thus providing the lowest cost of manufacture. Our disciplined engineering
systems let our customers get their products to market faster at a competitive
price - and with the assurance that they meet high standards for quality.
This highly disciplined process manages:
Quote Review
- Print and specification development/evaluation
- Product, Part and tooling design
- DFMEA
- PFMEA
- Capacity requirements
- Quality requirements, and the Initial Sample Inspection Report (ISIR) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
Engineering Information Systems
Technical communications are managed using a variety of formats and transfer technologies, including:
- PRO E
- AutoCAD
- Mechanical Desktop
- FTP sites
- DXF files
- IGES
Value Added Services
- Application of unique and patented technologies/features customized to the customer's product
- Collaborative product design Approach to insure customer's needs are met and available when needed.
- Innovative product solutions built on market experience
- Prototyping and design conformance evaluations
- UL certified testing facilities supporting complete product testing and UL File coordination
- Turnkey process from concept through manufacturing and assembly to timely delivery
- Supply Chain management and integration
- Packaging design and complete ship test capabilities.
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Vibration testing |
Fully certified UL test facility |
All of this results in a level of customer intimacy and technology beyond what is currently available in the market today.