makes about 100 different parts for different vehicle applica- tions. Lot sizes vary according to demand, and the shop must often interrupt scheduled production to run 20 or so emergency parts for a customer. According to Schoenfelder, the shop
now produces the same parts in-house as cost effectively as having them farmed out, even to overseas suppliers. In fact, he said that they have reshored over 95% of the company’s parts back to its US operations. The shop has total control over its part processing. But most importantly, Black Diamond Xtreme is now much more agile and responsive to market needs and as- sociated changes in production. “We get a lot more done on our Mazaks and in a shorter amount of time. They’ve allowed us to increase our production effi ciency by at least 25% compared with standard ma- chines and improve quality signifi cantly, machining parts faster and with fewer required pieces of equipment. Without them, we would have had to double our workforce to achieve our current levels of output,” said son Jeff Schoen- felder, vice president. “The benefi ts of Mazak single-
fi xturing part processing are staggering. We’ve improved every component with that capability. And the less we have to handle parts, the more we boost quality and the tighter the tolerances we can consistently hold. Our parts can’t fail. Part failure in the fi eld means one of our customers could be stranded on the side of a mountain in the middle of no- where,” said the younger Schoenfelder. In its machining arsenal, Black Diamond Xtreme has a Quick Turn Nexus (QTN) 250-II MSY Multi-Tasking Machine, two Integrex i-100S and two i-200S Multi-Tasking Machines, Variaxis i-600 and i-700 VMCs, and a Vertical Center Universal 500A 5X.
Black Diamond Xtreme machines most of its parts from 6061 or 7075 aluminums and various steels, one of which is 4140 tool steel. Part sizes range from those that fi t within a
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