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The Gateway - Featuring Omni Components
Screw Machining: Advances in Auto. Bar Machining
The Gateway - Featuring Omni Components
The Gateway
By Bill Bryson
February, 2002
Omni Components Corp.s quality policy is: To provide
superior quality products and services in a timely manner, to fulfill
the needs and expectations of our customers. It goes on to
say, Our primary goal is customer satisfaction. Each member
of the Omni Components team is responsible for ensuring that
internal and external customer requirements, expectations, and needs
are met. Every employee is to be involved and committed to pursue
the principles of excellence. We achieve this by improving processes,
methods, and working environment to insure that each customer is
receiving the highest quality product at committed costs, on time.
This policy statement is on display throughout the facility and
is visible to all who visit Omni.
Omni Components Corp. started in 1978 in Hudson, NH in a converted
chicken barn. Today they are in two facilities with 50 full-time
employees with plans on the board for a brand new facility, which
will house the company under one roof.
Their customer base is widespread through the medical industry,
instrumentation, optics, electronics, communications, and commercial
high tech. Founded by William (Rick) Holka, President, Omni specializes
in precision components. The company has 25 Citizen CNC Swiss Multi-Axis
lathes, many equipped with high pressure coolant, bar loaders and
the ability to produce completed parts straight off the machines.
With the capability to mill, drill, tap, all within the turning
environment in diameters up to 2 3/4 and chucking up to 8,
they can produce quantities from prototype to hundreds of thousands
of pieces.
If given a preference, Omni chooses to become involved during the
engineering concept phase for process simplification resulting in
potential cost savings to customers.
Supported by 4-axis vertical milling machines used to perform primary
or secondary operations, CNC water jet cutting, high speed Fanuc
Robo drilling, and a multitude of support equipment, Omni is in
an excellent position to offer high quality parts to virtually any
manufacturer.
Quality is a vital and intricate part of Omnis success. Omni
is ISO9001:2000 certified. Their quality staff is knowledgeable,
trained, and active to ensure machining accuracy is maintained throughout
the operation. Omni offers SPC, if customer required, and all parts
are thoroughly inspected from first piece through final to assure
perfect parts go to the customer.
Omni works with many customers towards turnkey operations, offering
grinding, finishing, heat treatment, or whatever is necessary to
produce the part for one-stop shopping. They offer JIT and Kan Ban
replenishment programs, lean manufacturing, and will carry raw material
stock in anticipation of customer needs on critical parts. They
are developing with some customers an auto-replenishment system
where e-mail messages will arrive from automatic bin control systems,
via radio control to notify Omni that parts need to be replenished.
Charles Doherty, General Manager, does the quoting and is heavily
involved with sales and his sales reps. He is often the first contact
within Omni, and will bring Rick or the Engineering department into
the discussion to develop the right approach to the machining need.
Based on the collaboration of the team, the quotation will be made.
In response to our question of what Omni would like to say to potential
customers, Rick responded that, Omni cares about customer
success and has the talented people who are committed to production
and service. We understand that when our customers are successful,
we are successful Charles response was, We offer
total customer satisfaction and we live up to our Mission Statement,
because it is what this company is all about. Perfection is our
aim. Integrity is the foundation of our values, and compromise is
never an option.
Screw Machining: Advances in Auto. Bar Machining
By Mark Shortt and David Gaines
JobShop Technology Magazine
Eastern Edition, August 2001
While reducing setup times and secondary operations, CNC Swiss
Automatics produce parts that are superior with respect to both
dimensional tolerances and surface finish.
Manufacturers who are looking to find a screw-machining source
shouldn't have to look very far. In the U.S. today, screw machining
is reported to be a $2 billion industry that delivers precision
parts for everything from watches, heart implants, fiber optics
connectors, and solenoids, to aerospace fasteners, photo imaging
devices, and automotive drive shafts, sensors, and brake systems.
Employing technology ranging from single-spindle, cam-driven machines
to multiple-spindle, CNC Swiss Automatics, more than 6,500 job shops
regularly turn out precision-machined miniature screws, connector
pins, and other small-diameter parts, as well as valves, pinions,
bushings, and tubular parts with internal threads.
To read more, visit the following JobShop web site: www.jobshoptechnology.com/features/0108/screw.shtml
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