a pretty expensive piece of the pie to have, but then again, it’s a huge selling point for us that we have an in-house tooling department. Because we do our own tool design, we can make some pretty complex parts. We can bring the customer in and talk about the design, especially with the tool. We can say we are going to gate it here and what is that going to cause, if it is a problem, and that definitely pays off in the end.”
Te tooling expertise and capa- Production Castings cast the components for this blower housing.
and makes its tooling in-house, Loeffelman said. Tis is a throwback to how the company first started as a new venture for two young sons of a tool and diemaker. Teir father’s company had a couple of diecasting machines, but he wasn’t interested in pursuing that area of the business. Loeffelman and his brother Kevin took it on and a few years later, their
father Ken joined their company, bringing his tool and die expertise with him. In the early 80s, Al and Kevin’s brother Chris, joined the company to improve the secondary operations and finishing of product. “Tooling is a big factor because
we control downtime,” Loeffelman said. “We handle repairs and revisions and we can react immediately. Tat’s
bility also helps lend flexibility to Production Castings and its custom- ers when it comes to short run orders. Although the diecaster’s majority of orders are high volume, it also has a niche in low volume runs and it’s able to offer this to its customers because of its process efficiencies, flexible warehousing methods and wide range of tooling options. “We probably are different than the
normal diecaster that wants the huge volumes because we look at higher added value and lower volumes,” Loef- felman said. “We do large runs (more than 100,000) but we will take on the
Tooling design and engineering plays a big factor in the value added services Production Castings offers and helps the diecaster efficiently produce low volumes.
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