30/03/2017

Case Study – Extrusions

APPLICATION LIGHTING HEAT SINK COUNTRY OF ORIGIN China, India FOB Tijuana, Mexico EAU 15,000 – 100,000 MATERIAL 6063-T6 ALUMINUM DIMENSIONS 4in, 5in WEIGHT 0.500kg, 1.077kg, 0.359kg TOOLING LEAD TIME 30 days APPLICATION AUTOMOTIVE CAGE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN China FOB Michigan EAU 40,000 MATERIAL 6063-T6 ALUMINUM FINISHING Coating WEIGHT 0.31kg TOOLING LEAD TIME 35 days
30/03/2017

Disrupting the Dominant Design in Distribution

Disrupting the Dominant Design in Distribution by Chris Caplice, Ph.D., Executive Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, Silver Family Research Fellow, Sr. Lecturer. Presented at the Supply Chain Forum, Friday, October 21, 2016 by the Center for Operational Excellence, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University   Caplice asserts that just as there is a dominant design for […]
30/03/2017

MES Achieves Lead Times Beyond Expectations

Aluminum Die Casting – weight of the part: 12.37 kg Press Used: 1600 T Tool Weight – 8,300 Kg Tool Kickoff to PPAP Parts Ready to Ship – 55 days   Last month, MES’ sourcing team was faced with yet another challenge for the outdoor lighting industry: delivering in record times an aluminum die casting tool of significant size: 1,240 […]
30/03/2017

Betting on Industrial Valves and Fittings

At MES Inc. we acknowledge the importance and relevance of industrial valves and fittings manufacturing for a myriad of industries in North America. Although we have witnessed a slow-down of the heavy manufacturing and drilling activities over the past few years, the demand for valves, pumps and fittings has remained relatively constant. While industry revenues declined 5.2% in 2015, and […]
30/03/2017

MES Takes On a New Challenge: Oxygen Free Copper

At MES Inc. we love to take on new challenges and no challenge is too big for us. When one of our oldest clients presented us with a request for oxygen free copper to be used in vacuum interrupters, the sourcing team took on the almost impossible task of finding a supplier for the highly restrictive material. Impossible because there […]