Managing multiple vendors for a single manufacturing project can quickly become a significant logistical challenge.
When different shops handle various aspects of your project, you’re left coordinating movements between facilities, managing multiple points of contact, and potentially struggling to pinpoint the source of quality issues when they arise. These challenges only increase with complex projects and multi-step processes, potentially leading to delays and increased costs.
With Approved Machining, you can opt for a far simpler process: when you partner with us for precision machining, we manage and coordinate all metal finishing for your project. Learn about our approach and how it saves our customers significant time.
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Our Comprehensive Finishing Network
.Our core expertise is our CNC machining services, but over the years we’ve developed an extensive network of expert partners to accommodate all of our customers’ metal finishing needs. There is no limit to the finishing processes our partners can handle, including:
- Anodizing
- Chromate conversion coating
- Electroless nickel plating
- Electroplating
- Oxide treatments
- Heat treatment
Each partner in our network has been carefully selected based on their proven track record and commitment to quality. We continuously expand our vendor relationships to optimize lead times, control costs, and enable access to every finishing process our customers might need.
Selecting the Perfect Finishing Partner
To find the ideal finishing partner for your project, we first discuss your project’s priorities and unique requirements. We consider multiple factors, from specific finish needed to production volume and timeline. Once we decide on a vendor, we manage the entire process for customers and deliver completed parts.
We excel even in complex, multi-step finishing processes. For instance, when a project requires stress relief, finish machining, and secondary finishing, we carefully coordinate each step while accounting for how these different finishing methods may interact and affect tolerances. We consult with each vendor and plan accordingly to ensure quality.
The Benefits of a One-Stop Shop
By partnering with our machine shop for all of your finishing services, you will see several key benefits:
- Streamlined Communication: Instead of managing multiple relationships with different vendors, our customers can save time and focus on their core business while we handle the logistical challenges of finishing coordination.
- Swift Problem Resolution: If any issues arise, we can quickly determine the source and implement solutions, whether the problem originated during our initial machining or as part of the finishing process.
- Quality Assurance: Our dedicated Quality Department works in tandem with Outside Processing Management to maintain quality control. We keep detailed logs of each vendor’s performance and regularly re-evaluate their results.
- Simplified Operations: From reduced paperwork to streamlined payment processes, our single-source approach eliminates many of the administrative hassles required in managing multiple vendors.
- Reduced Risk: Instead of testing unknown vendors for your finishing needs, you can draw on our extensively vetted vendor network and rest easy knowing we’ve seen their results. Not only that, we anticipate and discuss potential finishing issues ahead of time, such as material compatibility.
- Schedule Visibility: By managing the entire process, we can offer greater visibility into your timeline and often help to optimize scheduling across multiple steps, reducing lead times compared to managing vendors independently.
Experience Our Approach to Partnership
Your complex manufacturing projects do not require complex vendor management. Instead, we view our role as a true partner in your manufacturing success, and it starts before our machining even begins. Our approach helps save you time and money at every step of your process, from design optimization to expert precision machining all the way through our finishing coordination.
Request a quote from Approved Machining and streamline your next machining project.