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June 17, 2022
By Bob Lund | Engineering Manager
By Bob Lund | Engineering Manager
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New technology will continue to evolve but applying the appropriate safety precautions and proper usage won’t change when grinding abrasives.
What does safety look like?
Proper grinding angle Grinding at a shallow or flat angle (<15° angle) could cause:
TEST The cat lives here. Because we have that experience, we’ve helped people with the same type of problems that you’re facing. Getting us involved can fix issues. Or you can get us involved upfront in the design work. Then we can help eliminate things before they start costing money. That's really the takeaway here: The advantage is knowledge. If everyone could afford to, they’d have a fastener engineer on their staff. But generally speaking, unless you're an automotive company or just a great big beast of a company, nobody has a fastener specific engineer. So, we fill that role for free, essentially, for our customers. Product Teardowns Engineers like to tear things apart. While they have items apart, they look at the fasteners and other parts being used to see if there is a way to produce the same product for less money, or a better product for the same money. Insert product teardowns. During teardowns, we focus on the fasteners and methods used to assemble the product. It's very common to find a wide variety of fasteners used in the same product –stainless fasteners next to zinc-plated fasteners, high-strength fasteners used in low-strength applications, or custom products used in applications where standard products would be sufficient. All are opportunities for cost savings. When considering products for teardowns, we evaluate each situation to make sure that there’s not only good potential for cost savings in the product itself but also that the customer is committed to the project. We want the proposed savings to be realized rather than just looking good on a spreadsheet. The Importance of Trainings We really want our engineers to develop a relationship with the teams they work with. And the easiest way to develop a relationship with our customers’ engineers is to get a whole bunch of them in the room at the same time and show them something that can make their job easier. What Our Trainings Provide
Even when using the right fastener for the job, there are more things to think about... corrosion resistance, assembly methods, locking strategies, etc. So, having our engineering team do a training can really help. The level of interaction we see after we do a customer training shows us that our customers appreciate having a technical reference available to them. From our standpoint, this is another service that we are able to add to their "Fastenal toolbox." Listen to what Taylor has to say! |
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