SERVICES & SOLUTIONS ENGINEERING ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS CUSTOM TOOLING, COMPONENT ENGINEERED TOOLING & MORE
THE COMPLETE OFFERING O To help you acheive the greatest success, Seco is able to provide total engineered solutions including: custom tool design, process development, tooling selection, fixture and machine programming through full turnkey applications. We offer a collection of value-added services that we assemble based upon each customers particular component and process requirements. These elements can be used individually or all together to meet your needs. So, whats in it for you? Problem solving. We are an extension of your engineering resources, provinding a single point-of-contact for all of your product and process improvements, ensuring your future success. Our goal is to be your productivity partner. CUSTOM TOOLING COMPONENT ENGINEERED TOOLING MTB RELATIONSHIPS TECHNICAL CENTER MANUFACT
F ENGINEERING SERVICES CUSTOM TOOLING With such a diverse and expansive catalog of products, Seco can optimize most operations with standard tooling. With the rapid and constant change of today s industry, though, sometimes your application demands something more. In these situations, our Custom Tooling program achieves the results you need. From quotation to product delivery, Seco Custom Tooling excels in providing ideal results in minimal time, affording you the responsiveness needed to succeed in today s competitive market. COMPONENT ENGINEERED TOOLING To help with the challenges of todays manufacturing, Seco will reengineer a customer component utilizing our advanced tooling, machining knowledge and technical expertise, resulting in a higher quality product and more efficient machining process. We provide a full tooling proposal including all components and cycle time breakdown. This process can be a single solution or a full turn-key operation. The North American CET organization is one of twelve globally networked locations sharing knowledge and new ideas. MACHINE TOOL BUILDER COOPERATION Seco has developed strong relationships with a wide range of machine tool builders, linking the latest generation of machine tools to our cutting tools and strategies. When you work with Seco, you partner with a tooling provider that understands how to get the most out of your investment in technology. TECHNICAL CENTER A modern facility equipped with the latest machine technology perfectly suited for demonstration and training activities. With the expertise of the machining engineers, we undertake customer prototyping, new product development, new tool testing and also conduct customer specific training. MANUFACTURING As well as producing all of our inch standard range, we build a great deal of custom tooling at our manufacturing facility in Lenoir City, Tennessee. URING Our designers and programmers work closely together to produce high quality complex special tools in our factory. It is equipped with the latest machine technology including 5-axis machining centers and multi-task turning machines. 3
CUSTOM TOOLING The custom tooling group provides strategic support for our customers who have challenging operations that can t be completed with a standard tooling solution. We can design and build a tool that will completely address your machining needs that will in turn, improve your operation and profitabilty. Our team possesses extensive expertise in all major industry segments, including aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, medical and energy. Seco engineers work closely with your personnel to determine the unique demands of your most challenging applications, and then create a solution that will optimize your operations. From proposal to product delivery, Seco custom tooling excels in providing ideal results in minimal time, affording you the responsiveness needed to succeed in today s competitive market. Seco is dedicated to providing productive solutions that exceed the expecataions of our customers. The North American custom tooling group is one of twelve globally networked locations, which allows us access to expertise and knowledge from our colleagues worldwide. While every application requires a specific solution, clear trends within various manufacturing industries have emerged over the past decade. These shifts have guided much of our research and development, leading to products that address industry-specific challenges. 4
COMPONENT ENGINEERED TOOLING CET is not an off-the-shelf solution. The goal is to simplify your job by providing a single point of support through the life of a project while increasing your profitability. Few factories are equipped to keep up with the myriad of technology changes that occur in both machine tool equipment and assiciated technologies. With CET, Seco manufacturing engineers will work with you and keep you informed of these changes to acheive the optimal machining solution. The proposition is that we look at the entire picture the machining strategy, component material, machine tool capability, fixturing, inventory management and of course the cutting tools. We pull together all of the disparate pieces into a cohesive whole to make sure that you are producing your component in the most cost effective and secure manner possible. CET provides extensive assistance in creating or refining manufacturing processes to ensure the highest levels of productivity, efficiency and cost effectiveness. Specializing in project management from conception to completion, the CET team works together with your company, as well as relevant representatives from providers of complementary equipment, such as machine tools or automation systems. By bringing together the varied expertise of these sources, CET ensures the maximum effectiveness of the process at issue. The CET team provides methodology and technology evaluations to ensure that the most suitable equipment is applied to a process. Functional testing can be carried out at the Seco Technical Center to prove a solution with minimum impact on your operations prior to implementation. The team also executes an integration plan, including technical support and training, implementation of the system, run-off tests and documentation of potential savings. A natural evolution of our commitment to partnering with manufacturers, CET represents the fully realized potential of taking a team approach. Our team is higly skilled at managing projects from local to global markets. Overall, we provide the total solution to our customers, from process development to component run off. CET PROPOSAL ITEMIZED QUOTE OPERATION BREAKDOWN VIDEO / CAM OF OPERATION PROCESS OUTLINE DRAWING ASSEMBLIES 5
RELATIONSHIPS WITH MACHINE TOOL BUILERS Seco has developed strong relationships with a wide range of machine tool builders, helping you to take advantage of the latest generation of machine tools as well as cutting tools and strategies. As cutting tool and machine technologies have rapidly evolved in parallel, it has become impossible to achieve optimum performance in one without consideration of the other. Seco understands this and works closely with the industry s leading machine tool builders on many levels. These efforts range from creating new industry-specific processes to sharing expertise between our organizations to working together to help individual manufacturers integrate and tool up a new machine. We work with manufacturers of milling and turning machine tools to ensure compatibility and machining success. The engineers at Seco create programs that are tested by these manufacturers to increase user satisfaction. Seco works with the manufacturers to guarantee that our products will run smoothly on current and new machine models. When you work with Seco, you partner with a tooling provider that understands how to get the most out of your investment in technology. THE COMPLETE PACKAGE What s in it for you? Total support for your engineering needs. Whether you use our services individually or as a total package, Seco can provide the complete solution to support your manufacturing requirements. 6
LOCAL MANUFACTURING & TECHNICAL CENTER The Seco Technology Center is much more than just a demo center. We have a 5,000-square-ft., state-of-the-art facility which houses the latest in machining technology. We also equipped with a stadium style auditorium adjacent to our technical center where we offer more detailed education that caters to our customers specific needs. Designed to be an open and inviting workspace which enables Seco customers and employees to work collaboratively, the Tech Center is the hub of product and process innovation. Here we offer many resources, including the following: Customer specific events Machining demonstrations Education & training New product testing Process development Prototype development Developing new machining strategies Seco regularly hosts visitors in the Technical Center, at the North American Headquarters in Troy Michigan. To support our engineering processes, we have the capability to manufacture our designs in our own facility, located in Lenoir City, Tennessee. The plant contains state-of-the-art machines which incorporate high accuracy modular fixturing, enabling fast change-over and set-up. This gives us the ability to be very flexible for changing customer demands. Seco has manufactured world-class cutting tools in the United States for over 30 years at this facility, producing a variety of milling cutters, turning tools, indexable insert drills and custom tooling solutions. Manufacturing these products locally, contributes to the productivity of US manufacturers. CUSTOM TOOLING COMPONENT ENGINEERED TOOLING MACHINE TOOL SUPPORT TECHNICAL CENTER MANUFACTURING 7
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