Steve Poizner, California’s Insurance Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate for 2010, visited TCI. He was invited to speak on behalf of the LA Chapter of the NTMA.

While trimming labor costs is difficult and sometimes personal, it has become a necessity to compete in today’s worldwide economy. Typically, reducing labor costs, which are the largest portion of a shop’s costs, requires an upfront capital investment in new machinery or processes…

According to the company, its machine-ready blanks reduce overall part costs. They can be loaded directly into the machine without prep operations, which include sawing, grinding, flattening or squaring. Additionally, machine-ready blanks are said to require less time for adjusting setups and fixture offsets. By ending prep time and minimizing setup time, operators and machines are more productive, which increases throughput capacity, the company says…

Machine-ready blanks have been available for decades, yet mold manufacturers have been slow to adopt them, even though they can save as much as 30 percent off overall mold and mold component costs and free up machine time for creating more in-house capacity…

Here are a baker’s dozen benefits that can be gained by using pre-cut blanks in machine shops…

TCI Precision Metals, a leading supplier of machine-ready blanks, has announced that it will demonstrate how purchasing machine-ready blanks can allow dramatic reductions in the cost of labor, leading to lower overall part costs and greater operational efficiency, the company said…

TCI Precision Metals (Gardena, CA) will demonstrate how purchasing machine-ready blanks allows dramatic reductions in the cost of labor, leading to lower overall part costs and greater operational efficiency at IMTS. Machine-ready blanks allow production to start immediately (e.g.,. load blanks directly into the machine without prep operations, including sawing, grinding, flattening or squaring)…

The company says its machine-ready blanks offer reductions in labor costs, leading to lower overall part costs and greater operational efficiency…

TCI Precision Metals offers machine-ready blanks, which reduce the cost of labor by 20 percent, leading to 15 percent lower part costs and greater operational efficiency, the company says. If the time of the machine freed up for additional jobs is considered, the total value often exceeds 30 percent, according to the company. Machine-ready blanks allow production to start immediately…

Buying raw stock might allow shops to shave as much as 10 percent off the cost of materials, but that results in less than a 1-percent savings on overall part cost, according to John Belzer, president of TCI Precision Metals (www.tciprecision.com)…

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