Process & Product Lab

Process & Product Development Lab Where Solutions Start
Process & Product Lab To achieve and maintain a competitive edge in today's fast-changing, global marketplace, your and processes must continually improve. The ability to make product or process changes quickly with confidence and quickly with confidence and minimal risk, even "on-the-fly" provides a significant advantage. NEWCOR Bay City maintains a fully staffed Process & Product Development Lab to develop and verify that these process improvements are capable in the manufacturing environment and that product or material changes do result in manufacturability and quality improvements. The lab is ready to serve customers in a variety of ways, ranging from weld development for new materials to contributing to a total Concurrent Engineering Project. Resistance Welding-Seam, Spot Projection, HY-PAK® Arc Welding Hot and Cold Planishing Resistance Heating Hot Upsetting & Cold Forming Metal Forming / Expand Tooling / Fixturing Prototype & Pilot Parts Assembly		Process development. Welded axle. Production ready tooling.
Testing & Metrology
Mounted and etched samples.	Complete metallurgical capability.	Axle slug welding process developed in the Lab.

Typical Applications Appliance Drums Motor & Compressor Shells Cans, Barrels & Nuclear Vessels Sheet Metal - Variety of Industries Toolboxes & Furniture Pre-painted Metals - No-Show Weld Transmission & Axle Components Steering Gear & Actuator Rods Jet Engine Components Variety of Material i.e. Powered Metal The benefits that Newcor’s Process & Product Development Lab has provided to customers over the years have been significant. By having the capability to test and verify process or product changes, the customers’ risk is significantly reduced before making any major investment in new material or capital equipment, but once verified, the change can be made very quickly. Whether the Lab participates in weld schedule development or as a Team member on the a Concurrent Product & Process Development Engineering Project, the objective is to provide a capable process producing quality products.		Arc/Plasma longitudinal seam welder. CMM inspection capability. HY-PAK® process for no-show welding.
Typical motor frame blanks and shell.	Quick turn-around prototyping of parts/processes.	Pre-painted steel and closure panel hems.

Plus R&D, Feasibility Studies and Prototyping to Prove Out Your Process:
Newcor’s R&D claims are backed up with a major investment in our process and development laboratory. Newcor is dedicated to R&D and the performance of production feasibility studies to provide out processes for our customers.
Process feasibility studies for jet engine projection welding.	Prototype, tooling development and power confirmation.	Resistance welding and metalographic departments.