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How to Meet Top Quality Standards with Bossard Expert Test Services

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  Meeting top quality standards, especially in fastening technology, requires thorough testing of your prototype or products. Bossard provides Expert Test Services at one of our 14 accredited testing laboratories around the world that meet ISO/IEC 17025 certification. The following tests are available. Available Testing Coating Thickness Measurement – measures thickness through X-rays to verify the required protective coating. Corrosion Analysis – looks at the type of corrosion that may appear on your components and develops countermeasures to reduce it. Failure Analysis – determines why a bolted joint fails, such as corrosion, change of friction conditions, or incorrect tightening torque . Fastening Optimization – helps you choose the right fastener for your application and provides specifications if desired. Friction Coefficient Testing / Torsion Testing – determines the friction coefficient, tightening torque, and clamp force of your bolted joint. Hardness Tests / Hardnes...

Learn How to Design Your Best Product with Bossard Expert Design

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  The development of our Assembly Technology Expert services improves the use of fasteners in prototypes, new or existing products, and current assembly processes. But they are also useful for having you focus on fasteners when you’re still designing it through the Expert Design method. What is Expert Design? When you create a new product, beating the competition while maintaining high quality and safety standards and minimizing the time to market is no small feat. Integrating fastening functions can be demanding, even though the function of a fastener is often seen as trivial. Based on 3D prototyping and CAD Big Data Analytics, our Expert Design method recommends ways to use materials and optimize assembly to increase the success of the final product. The benefits include a better in-place cost because you choose the best fastening option, lower production cost due to faster assembly processes, and a lower life-cycle cost because the incorporation of the correct fastening solut...

How to Reduce Costs with Bossard Expert Assortment Analysis

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  It may be surprising to learn that only 15 percent of the total cost of a fastener comes from itself. The remaining 85 percent stems from other activities like procurement, logistics, and assembly prep. So, if you’re looking to reduce costs by examining your fasteners, you need to reduce the number of different ones that you use. Helping you define what fasteners to rely on is the core of Expert Assortment Analysis . It assists you in determining head shapes, recess types, materials, property classes, platings, and dimensions. When utilizing this method, there are many advantages: Cut unnecessary elements by looking for similarities and substituting when possible. Reduce the complexities of purchasing, warehousing, and assembly by defining the fastener assortment from which you can pick. Increase productivity, which improves profitability. You can choose from three service packages: Basic analyzes your entire production line to look at the assembly tech, such as fasteners, the a...

Streamlining Production: The Three-Stage Methodology of Bossard's Assembly Technology Experts

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  In the highly competitive world of manufacturing, innovation and efficiency are paramount. As production engineers and product designers continuously strive to optimize processes and enhance product quality, having the right fastening solutions is crucial. Enter Bossard's Assembly Technology Expert ( ATE ) services – your partner in achieving excellence. By leveraging Bossard's expertise, you can accelerate your time to market, reduce production costs, and create superior products. Here's how: Three-Stage Methodology: Design, Optimize, Educate Bossard's ATE services employ a three-stage methodology designed to streamline your manufacturing process: Design – Focus on fastening joints to design perfect products. Optimize – Hone your fastening process to perfection. Educate – Become an expert in the science of fastening. Comprehensive ATE Services Bossard offers a suite of expert services to address every aspect of fastening technology: Expert Teardow...

Expert Education – Become an expert in fastening technology

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  Develop internal knowledge and skills in tailor-made training sessions about engineering principles, applications, fasteners , and assembly technology . Moreover, the E-Learning portal offers you exclusive access to a wide range of questions relating to fastening technology , with the opportunity to learn at your own pace and your own convenience. As an engineer, you are the key to a safe and reliable product. Gain in-depth expertise of fastening technology to start improving your products today. Benefit from different formats of customized learning. In in-person seminars you benefit from a hands-on practical approach. Interactive learning with webinars can be conducted easily at our desks. The same goes for the E-Learning portal : Visit the well-illustrated lessons as often as you like, from anywhere and at any time. Additionally, benefit from our expertise right now. Explore our technical information and tools to discover a wide range of fastener know how, calculators, conve...