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Technical Metalworking Help When You Need It
From sourcing the exact item to solving complex challenges, MSC experts are always within reach.
Meet Our Metalworking Teams
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Metalworking Tech Team
- Assemble tooling packages for your newly purchased machine
- Analyze blueprints and recommend solutions to machine a part
- Securely review and discuss your part files on the TechMate™ reader - a secure, ITAR compliant and free CAD-based platform
- Recommend round tools and carbide insert chip-breakers, grades and geometry
- Fine-tune a long-running job to generate time and cost savings
- Get optimal speeds and feeds for any cutting tool
- Troubleshoot a job when something goes wrong at the spindle
- Identify precision gages, abrasives and MRO products for your specific needs
In-person support at the spindle
Metalworking Specialists
- Troubleshoot machining challenges at the spindle
- Recommend and prove out any tool through onsite testing
- Optimize tool life
- Determine the right machining process and parameters for a new job
- Drive cost per part reduction with exclusive and award-winning metalworking technology
- Deliver lead time reduction and revenue growth via cycle time reductions
- Conduct a thorough assessment of your operations, to drive throughput and profitability
Featured Case Study
Triosim provides a wide range of paper products and parts that are designed and engineered to optimize their customers machines’ performance. Triosim creates rolls based on customer supplied drawings or create a custom designed roll based on customer parameters. They also offer roll fabrication ranging from a simple to complex rolls roll covers, roll grinding and balancing, roll repair and refurbishment, and roll splitters.
MSC metalworking specialists can help you safely optimize your tooling setups, both on-site and remotely, with a comprehensive needs analysis using our proprietary Ap Op™ process.
To get started, work with your MSC sales associate or call 800.645.7270 for more information.
Watch the customer testimonial video below to see how Triosim in Georgia realized 20-25% cost savings per product line after partnering with MSC.
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Customer Testimonials
If we need any type of technical advice on tooling, or if we have a particularly hard material we’re cutting or struggling with, we can use MSC and their technical expertise to help us with a solution to save us time. They’re a partner we can rely on.
Dan Olson,
Mechanical Designer,
Joe Gibbs Racing
Our partnership with MSC has helped us achieve our goals while unlocking many other opportunities through their BNA (Business Needs Analysis). They’ve helped us simplify our business through Vending and VMI. Engagement through their metalworking specialist has helped us improve productivity. MSC has been a phenomenal partner.
Adan Echeverria,
Director of Operations,
Lovejoy by Timken
We went from 10 minutes to 45 seconds with the new tool. We were using a tool that would take about 40 passes to achieve a 45-degree angle. MSC brought in a tool that cuts on a 45-degree angle, and it did the job in one pass.
Jim Penoza,
Maintenance Superintendent,
Universal Wearparts
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