Service

Technical consulting Our technical consulting support is there to help you to devise a solution backed by the strength of our experience with materials, manufacturing technology and applications. The focus here is on implementing your requirements as a customer in an optimum and cost-effective manner.

• Materials selected to suit economic, technical and approval-related requirements.
• Support with the design of components backed by our know-how with manufacturing technology
• Consideration of economic factors – choosing the most appropriate manufacturing technology to suit the needs of any given item 
• Checking the feasibility of manufacturing tolerances and special features to achieve optimum quality
• – Planning recommendations on the handling of components in the material flow and assembly operations of our customers

Prototypes We can provide you rapidly with initial prototypes for test series, preliminary samples and pre-production series using our tool-free manufacturing technologies, cutting parts with laser and waterjet. It is no problem to make modifications as the development phase progresses, and these can be implemented rapidly.

• Support during development and test processes using near-series sample parts
• Tool-free manufacturing is possible on the basis of CAD data
• A sound basis for the checks and fine-tuning essential to creating a product that is ready for manufacture

Tool creation and cutting programs One of our core skills involves the manufacture of high-quality tools. We have a great wealth of experience extending back over more than seven decades and we combine that with state-of-the-art technological developments. Tools are individually matched to the material, tolerances and shape of every customer product we supply. We achieve long tool life through mechanical and reproducible resharpening operations. These tools then enable us to manufacture products to ultimate levels of precision.

Volume production with initial sample testing Volume production at SCHLÖSSER takes due account of volume scenarios and technical requirements when choosing the most economical technology for the production of your items – selecting from a wide range of diverse manufacturing processes. Following customer approval, manufacturing first involves a sample-testing procedure, based for example on EMPB or VDA Volume 2 or the PPAP standard.

• Manufacture of short to long production runs
• Die-cutting, waterjet cutting, laser cutting
• Processing operations for sheet materials through to roll-to-roll processes
• Bespoke process development for every customer product
• Full measurement of items and initial sample documentation in accordance with customer requirements
• Traceability of all components used

Logistics We offer a wide range of delivery forms to suit your assembly process and to satisfy your precise wishes and requirements. We can package and deliver your components separately, bundled, stacked, secured with stacking pins, arranged on a strip as adhesive as well as non-adhesive parts, in blister packs, small load carriers, on reel or in any other desired format. We aim to achieve optimum installation of products and handling of parts in our customers’ downstream assembly operations. We also aim to protect everything we supply against damage until they go for further processing. We also strive to be as compatible as possible with the systems used by our customers, using interfaces such as EDI, EDIFACT or established platforms like SupplyOn to exchange information seamlessly up to the point of delivery and invoicing.