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QFCM’s approach to power line hardware services results in optimal product quality, strict adherence to custom design, and reduced overall cost. Our quality control begins at the first batch of samples that you received from us. And this continues through all production phases, where our QC staff never stop looking for opportunities to improve product quality. We are constantly checking manufacturing processes, addressing material concerns, and improving staff expertise to ensure the best quality product.

Quality Control

We can provide:

• Dimensional Testing

• Mechanical Testing

• Tolerance Analysis

• Tooling Life Analysis

• Rockwell Hardness Testing per ASTM E18

• Brinell Hardness Testing per ASTM E10

• Magnetic Particle Testing per ASTM E1444

• CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) Testing

• 24″ Optical Comparator for Complex Measurements

• Tensile/ Proof Load Testing up to 160,000 lbs (700kN)

• Hot Dip Galvanizing Plating Thickness per ASTM E376

• Torque Testing

• Roughness Testing

• Life-time Sample Retention

Global Sourcing

Proper sourcing can generate substantial cost savings – up to 10 to 15 percent of purchasing costs and in some cases as much as 30 to 40 percent. As demand grows for your product to be competitive in the global marketplace, QFCM ’s extensive global sourcing knowledge is the solution to your manufacturing needs.

Companies that have utilized QFCM’s global sourcing capabilities have enjoyed the benefits of:

• Reduced Cost of Goods

• Streamlined Supply Chain

• Increased Inventory Turns

• Superior Quality on a Consistent Basis

• Knowledge of Local Cultures and Languages

• Cutting Edge Manufacturing Technology

• Proximity to Raw Materials

OEM / ODM

In today’s world of rapid response manufacturing, your existing design can become outdated quickly. QFCM’s product development team is designed to respond to the changing market and can remodel an existing design or work with you to create a new one. Your product development is made easier with QFCM backing your project.

Using computer modeling software, we create an interactive 3-dimensional digital part. This 3D model evolves throughout the product development process, and it allows us to generate the data we need for prototyping and manufacturing your product.

QFCM’s engineers are highly innovative, have decades of experience and can help reduce the problems inherent to manufacturing by utilizing:

• 3D Modeling

• Fit, Form, Function

• Tolerance Analysis

• Reverse Engineering

• Cost Reduction

• Lean Manufacturing Principles

Our product development team is constantly looking for ways to improve your product’s performance and make your design work for you. Our engineers review your project’s parameters and make cost saving recommendations based on the most efficient design.

Our engineering team can help generate new and innovative concepts for your product, and having a variety of concepts to choose from ensures that your design suits you. Our engineers can take your current design and efficiently change the mode of manufacturing to develop a better and stronger product at a competitive price.

We would love to work with you or your engineers to help discuss the best options to help in the design and manufacturing of the new process.

Logistics

QFCM’s logistics and supply chain management system simplifies your inventory and optimizes shipping and delivery of your product. Our distribution center receives, inspects and consolidates orders to maximize full container loads, and your product can be shipped directly to you.

Our extensive distribution network delivers your parts when you need them, as often as you need them, and wherever you need them. QFCM’s logistics department is attentive and thorough. We monitor your shipments so you can plan your project with real time information. Our supply chain management team gives you up to the minute tracking along with a host of other advantages.

QFCM has long-standing relationships with many domestic and international transportation and logistics companies and can streamline your import process.

Let us handle:

• Reducing Shipping Cost Per Item

• Maximizing Container Loads

• Inventory Tracking

• Duties and Customs Clearance

• Ocean and Inland Freight

• Air Shipments