Bettcher Industries Birmingham, Ohio 3 I CUTTING DOWN ON CUTTING FLUIDS Remember Robert Mery from before? He’s been to Bettcher’s facility, but he works for FST, which is short for Fluid Service Technologies. If you’re dealing with industrial fluids, FST will keep your equipment clean and workspaces producing. In this case, Fastenal and FST partnered to help Bettcher streamline their operations. “A lot of companies fall into a trap where each operator kind of does their own thing; before you know it, you have concentrations all over the place and six different fluids,” said Mery. “So part of our mission was to get things leveled out from a concentration standpoint and then also to reduce the extra fluids that weren’t necessary. And we did that with our program in conjunction with Fastenal.” Together, FST and Fastenal’s metalworking specialists did some fluid selection to start narrowing down the list of six. Bettcher’s end goal was to reduce their total number of cutting fluids. This would allow them to take advantage of recycling and other value-added services. FST tested SharpCool to find what Bettcher could expect as an output from the fluid. When the tests showed good results, Bettcher was able to reduce the number of cutting fluids in their facility from six to two. Our job is to take away costs, burdens, and inefficiencies so you can shine. Bettcher Endmills BEFORE Bettcher on the Partnership with Fastenal Glenn McNeelege, Director of Special Projects “We are extremely happy with choosing Fastenal. We invited four companies to make proposals. Fastenal distinguished itself as being a company solution; whereas the other three, their solutions were as good as the one individual servicing our account. And though those individuals were well regarded, even by companies used as references, they were one-person solutions. Fastenal customer service across all aspects of tooling, value-added services, etc., is well developed and a corporate solution not dependent on one person. They are always receptive to helping us solve the next problem.” FST on the Partnership with Bettcher Robert Mery, Project Manager “The partnership with Bettcher is mutually beneficial because we’re each able to capitalize on our core competencies. Fastenal has the opportunity to focus on the supply chain while FST takes work off of Bettcher’s plate allowing them to focus on production. FST has accountability for the coolant program and machine cleaning program, and we help Fastenal provide documented cost savings to Bettcher.” Bettcher Endmills AFTER
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