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Eagle Alloy, Inc. was founded in 1979 and quickly grew from a short-run facility to a medium-to-high-production steel foundry. Despite the company’s success, its founders were not satisfied with the status quo. Having heard of developments in lean manufacturing, they decided to implement these tools in hopes of achieving greater efficiency, stability and quality throughout […]
Lean Manufacturing principles encourage maximum efficiency for just about any production facility. Lean Manufacturing is also more of a necessity than ever, with cutthroat competition across the manufacturing industry forcing all players to up their efficiency levels. If you’re worried that your company isn’t lean enough, take a look at these five tools from the Lean […]
Lean manufacturing helps manufacturers improve efficiency by eliminating waste in the production process, but what exactly is lean manufacturing? Is it a product, a procedure, a religion? None of the above. Lean manufacturing is an adaptable set of “tools” that can be applied to any system of manufacturing—whether that system produces spring coils, jet engines […]
Efficiency is good for any business. It doesn’t matter if your company is manufacturing or service oriented. Greater process efficiency always offers a wide range of benefits over “business as usual.” On a broad level, manufacturing more efficiently can help cut costs, improve throughput and reduce environmental impact. All of these general benefits lead to […]
Looking to lower the cost of your casting purchases? The key is to find a foundry that incorporates lean manufacturing principles into the process. These three principles can be applied to manufacturing castings, driving down costs significantly: Castability Bottleneck Solutions Optimizing Cycle Time
Looking to lower the cost of your casting purchases? The key is to find a foundry that incorporates lean manufacturing principles into the process. The lean manufacturing process focuses on identifying ways improve quality while reducing waste, and companies that employ lean processes often find that it lowers their costs over time. Castability, bottleneck solutions […]
National Vaccuum is a client that doesn't like welding from Eagle Precision. Well you can't really look at the casting after the fact and tell if it's done right or not. When you're welding you have to know what you're doing. If something failed Mag particle inspection and it has a crack, you have to […]
Looking to lower the cost of your casting purchases? The key is to find a foundry that incorporates lean manufacturing principles into the process. CASTABILITY, BOTTLENECK SOLUTIONS and OPTIMIZING CYCLE TIME are three principles when applied to manufacturing castings can drive cost out and lower your purchasing price. CASTABILITY is referred to in the foundry […]
When time and flexibility are top priorities, rapid prototyping for castings offers manufacturers a fast-track route to producing complex cast parts in small quantities. At
Eagle CNC’s West Michigan machine shop provides some of the highest-precision machining available, but the meaning of precision in machining is constantly changing. Industries across the board
ESOP is a way to transfer company ownership from one generation to the next—in many cases, this transfer happens when the original owners sell their stake
Recently, Eagle Alloy squared off against the demanding technical requirements and thorough audits of the American Bureau of Shipping’s “Type Approval” certification. Through this process,
The latest resource from the Eagle Group provides a comprehensive introduction to heat treatment in metalcasting and CNC machining. This 40-page guide is available as
