Bob Denholtz is the president of DureX, Inc., 5 Stahuber Avenue, Union, NJ 07083, 908-688-0800, www.durexinc.com. Durex is a full service one-stop-shop that provides high quality metal stampings, sheet metal fabrications, CNC vertical machining, powder coating, electro-mechanical assemblies, finished products, packaging and fulfillment to an extremely diversified customer base.
What happens when demand for parts from a supplier increases so that an OEM can scale up production? Determining the ideal time to transition to a more economical alternative can be challenging, but a “one-stop” parts supplier can scale with demand, facilitating the transition to hard tooling, mixing and matching metalworking techniques for multi-component assemblies, and incorporating hybrid and secondary tooling approaches to further reduce costs.