MSC Industrial Supply Co. (MSC), a leading national supplier of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services, offered its customers £1.2 million worth of savings in 2019 by transforming the way they operate.
The savings to customers are made possible by MSC’s application engineering experts who get truly involved in their customers’ businesses and conduct in-depth analysis of manufacturing processes and objectives so they can recommend the most efficient production strategies.
Rather than just sell replacement tooling products, MSC’s engineers benchmark the entire production process, including hourly targets against tooling costs, in order to propose ways to drive efficiency, optimise performance and deliver greater profitability.
Cost saving recommendations may include swapping out tooling, adjusting feeds and speeds, modifying tolerances, reducing the number of steps in a process, optimising machining strategies, consolidating tooling and proposing entirely different approaches and techniques that address new manufacturing challenges.
Mathew Kavanagh, head of engineering at MSC said: “What differentiates MSC is our unrivalled engineering expertise and the fact that we place the customer at the centre of everything we do. This means we are able to help them identify efficiency gains by improving processes and reducing costs, so their output and profitability are maximised.
“We don’t simply sell tool for tool because focusing on tooling costs alone doesn’t deliver a significant reduction on the overall cost of machining a product. To reduce the machining time and cost, the entire machining process and components must be measured and understood.
“We become a strategic partner to our customers and offer a complete solution which begins with fully understanding the brief so that we are able to recommend where the most significant hard and soft cost savings can be made.”
In addition to engineering and technical support and cost-saving solutions, MSC’s customers benefit from exemplary customer service, an extensive product range from industry-leading brands and next-day delivery as standard. MSC also offers advanced inventory management solutions that deliver visibility, flexibility and control.
The company works with a number of prestigious business across the aerospace, automotive and precision engineering sectors including Gardner Aerospace, JW Kane, Arrowsmith and Bromford Industries.
MSC Industrial Supply www.mscdirect.co.uk
