The strategic benefits, financial benefits, and personal benefits of using UniPunch tooling are all interrelated, and they all derive from the unique way that UniPunch tooling lets you make parts faster with a system that costs less compared to other methods and technologies, such as, drilling, die sets, turrets, or lasers.
Strategic Benefits: Manufacturers using UniPunch tooling have competitive advantages.
Pricing power comes from having lower costs compared to competitors that make similar parts using other methods.
Shorter lead times can be the advantage that wins an order. By choosing UniPunch tooling you can be in production quickly and offer shorter lead times.
Being faster to market with new designs is especially important in crowded markets where competitors copy each other. Drawing on the large inventory of tooling that UniPunch maintains can mean you will be in production sooner. Not only that, these days product life cycles are shorter and design changes are frequent, and with UniPunch tooling you can quickly accommodate design changes.
Relieving bottlenecks can lead to more sales. When sales are limited by bottlenecks that limit factory throughput, switching to UniPunch tooling can relieve the bottlenecks caused by slow processes; for example, bottlenecks at turrets or lasers making holes one-hole-at-a-time.
Ease of use is a factor. UniPunch tooling is easy to learn to use so you can keep your more highly skilled personnel free for other jobs.
In summary, the methods you choose in your factory effect your competitive position. It is not enough to deliver better products anymore. You have to be able to deliver them when the customer wants them and increasingly that means quickly.
Financial Benefits: Higher margins flow naturally from lower costs. UniPunch customers tell us that the parts they make with UniPunch tooling earn some of their highest profit margins. With UniPunch tooling you make parts faster, that is, in fewer minutes, with a method that costs less per minute. That’s why those parts cost less.
And you can have less capital in inventory for two reasons. One, your parts cost less. Two, you can quickly produce smaller shop orders using dedicated setups of the UniPunch system to change from part to part fast so you can stay ahead of customer demand with fewer parts on hand.
Quicker changeover and faster production work together; quickly producing smaller lots at a lower cost allows you to maintain customer service with less capital tied up in inventory. And lower cost parts have higher profit margins.
Personal Benefits:
Better job security and a better chance for job growth come from being on a team that is more productive than the competition.
Reliability is important too. Imagine the embarrassment of missing your delivery promises.
The UniPunch system is just more fun because it is a system that you can count on.
You can have the peace of mind, the pride, the confidence, that come from knowing your parts will be made for less money, faster, and on time.