Manufacturing Solutions Blog

For many applications, hand assembly of nuts onto studs, bolts, and other items is not an effective solution because of volume. Often, however, application begin with hand assembly but find that as operations expand and volume increase the hand strain caused by hand assembly is taxing. Hand assembly is also a slower process and as volume increases the costs in time become apparent.  Read More

When it comes to piping fabrication there are a lot of options out there. At MSI we recommend our Chamfermate line of pipe bevelers. ChamferMate® high production chamfering machines and pipe beveling machines are designed for easy setup and operation. Heavy duty construction and quality components are utilized to provide our customers with years of dependable service. There are many models available to accomedate a wide range of diameters, applications, and piping fabrication needs such as chamfering, beveling, and deburring.  Read More

Across a wide range of industries there is a need for nuts to be assembled onto studs, bolts, and other items prior to shipment. Often the volume of these projects makes hand assembly unwieldy or impractical. When this is the case, a nut and bolt assembly machine can speed up the assembly process.  Read More

Midwest Supply of Minnesota, located in Minnetonka, MN, is a supplier of fasteners to a wide variety of industries and they had a problem.  One of their fastener product lines for water works facilities was taking off and they could no longer afford to manually thread nuts on 3/4" bolts. Ted Bastian only had to recall a time when he was growing up to know the solution.  Read More