At Focused on Machining, we are dedicated to growing alongside our customers and consistently evolving to help them solve their newest challenges. After multiple customers approached us with requests for projects that included high-volume rivet and nut plate installation, we saw an opportunity to enhance our services while simplifying their supply chain.
Now, we’ve built a dedicated assembly station for specialized hardware installation. By adding this new feature to our facility, we'll help decrease your costs through more efficient hardware installation and simplify your projects by acting as a one-stop shop.
Building Our Hardware Installation Capability
While we’ve installed rivets and nut plates in small volumes for years, we never had the capability for large-scale installation. When we decided to add this new capability to our Colorado machine shop, we took a deliberate approach. Our team is thriving in our new space, but we faced several challenges along the way:
Selecting the Right Tools for Efficiency
Finding the ideal installation tools was no small task, with many of the options we considered facing year-long lead times. Through extensive research, we identified and purchased tooling solutions that balance reliability, availability, and cost-effectiveness, ensuring we can deliver competitive pricing without compromising on speed.
Establishing an Aerospace Hardware Supply Chain
As an AS9100 machine shop, we know the importance of sourcing qualified components to meet aerospace specifications. The specialized stainless steel rivets our first project required were in short supply at all of our normal suppliers, so we went beyond standard networks. By thoroughly studying these rivet specifications and leveraging industry relationships, we built a reliable supply chain that meets both the standards of aerospace machining and cost requirements.
Discovering Fair, Competitive Pricing
For any shop performing a task for the first time, there is always the temptation to be conservative in your quote and offer too high of a price. However, this is never our goal at Focused on Machining–we always aim to offer fair pricing. By optimizing our tooling and processes, we can offer fair pricing that reflects our commitment to customer value.
Simplifying Your Supply Chain With Hardware Installation
Our dedicated assembly station allows us to handle a variety of specialized hardware installations including:
Our dedicated assembly station allows us to handle a variety of specialized hardware installations including:
High-volume rivet installation
Nut plate assembly
Helical insert installation
Custom hardware requirements
Currently, many of our customers either find a second vendor or perform these installations themselves because they’re unable to find a shop that offers both high-quality precision machining as well as hardware installation services. Now, this expansion eliminates the need to juggle multiple vendors for machining and hardware installation.
Send us your model, and we’re able to deliver you a completed part—we can not only manufacture and assemble, but manage your outside processing as well.
Experience Our One-Stop Shop
Whether you need precision machining, hardware installation, or both, our CNC machine shop is equipped to handle your next project. Let us simplify your supply chain and deliver high-quality, completed parts that exceed your expectations.
Request a quote today and talk to us about how we can make your next project a streamlined and simple process!