Jay Wirt, Quality Engineer
M&S Industrial Metal Fabrication Huntington, IN

M&S is a job shop, fabricating electrical boxes, furnace cabinets, water furnaces and thermal heating components. The 40-year-old company, which employs 80 people, is a large supplier to major electrical OEM companies.

“ The UniPunch tooling paid for itself right away...just on the time we opened up on the turrets...we doubled to tripled production”

“ We have lasers, turrets, shears. We first got interested in C-Frame Tooling because our turrets were overloaded. We didn’t have any more capacity on them. A lot of the jobs that were on the turrets ran kind of slow. Now with UniPunch C-Frame Tooling we’re making the same part in one hit to punch the holes.

“ C-Frame Tooling gives us another option. We run a lot of bus bars out of bar length. About a year ago our welding supervisor recommended that we put a system in place to handle the bus bar work. So we looked into it. We quoted it on die sets and they said it would cost $30,000 for the dies, so the idea was dropped.

“ And a year later, we were buried at the turrets, so I went to our punch press operator and asked him if he still had the information on tooling for bus bars, and he gave me UniPunch’s The Hole Thing. So I looked into it, contacted somebody at UniPunch and we started looking at the system.

“ The plant manager looked at the UniPunch system and really liked it and said we have to get this tooling in place because we have to get the bus bars off the turret because they’re just killing us. So, for $5,000 we got the UniPunch tooling in place.

“ The UniPunch tooling paid for itself the first month”

“ The UniPunch tooling paid for itself right away, just on the time we opened up on the turrets. I figured out that we saved about 40 hours a month on the turret by going to UniPunch tooling.

“ It doesn’t take any specialized training to use UniPunch tooling. Once you have your templates thought out, it’s easy to operate.”

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