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Development partner from prototype to series production
We manufacture custom-made products according to client-specific requirements. It is therefore important to work together closely with our clients from our first discussion to delivery. We begin each project with a development concept, which clarifies the individual requirements and the process stages required. In so doing, we employ the comprehensive know-how of our development department, which combines experience with over 1,000 different types and models of exhaust flaps and EGR valves. From the beginning, the knowledge of our experts flows into development, validation, manufacturing and assembly, and even into the logistics of the components.
The Klubert + Schmidt success chain
Consulting
> First discussion
> Feasibility study
Development
> Simulation
> Design calculations
> Construction
> Prototype construction
Production
> Manufacturing (pilot series/series)
> Assembly
> Equipment
> Tools
Quality
> Measurements development
> Test methods
Logistics
> Packaging
concepts
> International shipping
After-sales
> Replacement parts service
> Components and kits
Consulting
- Understanding the client’s requirements
- Manufacturability analysis
- Performance specifications checks
- Creation of Delta performance specifications
- Presentation and determination of the product and process concepts
Development
- Product development
- Client-specific construction
- Design calculations and simulation
- Experiments and validation
- Process development: Manufacturing processes, assembly sequences, measurement and
test methods, integrated quality control concepts - Determination of inspection features in the APQP.
Prototype construction
- Manual manufacturing or in CNC machining centres and lathes
- Manufacturing individual components, if possible and appropriate under close to production conditions
- Cooperation with selected model construction companies and foundries
- Quality guarantee and documentation by Quality Management
- Trial series in our own and certified external test laboratories.
- Manufacturing of individual parts and agreement with suppliers concerning material requirements
- Assembly and handover of the first prototypes for verification and validation on the engine test stand or field trial vehicles
- Feedback evaluation and documentation in FMEA
- Acceptance of requests for optimisation and retrogressive process sequence until the development phase
Production
- Partial and fully automated assembly
- Manufacture of individual parts at the in-plant machining centres
- Quality assurance thanks to long-term supplier relationships
- Flexible, qualified and highly motivated employees
- Modern manufacturing processes and technologies
- Cutting-edge assembly machines and cells adjusted to the individual demands of large series production
- Manual work stations for precision manufacturing of small-batch series and individual parts, e.g. for manufacturing spare parts
- Equipment and tools
- In-house production of almost all varieties of clamping devices and processing equipment, such as manual and hydraulic clamping devices, classic drilling, bending and welding devices, clamping and special claws for the casing and throttle valve processing, as well as measuring and testing devices, including, among others, for coordinate measurement machine.
- Processing, adapting and optimising tools
- Alignment of devices and tools
- High manufacturing depth
- Logistics concepts customised for the client
- Compliance with the FIFO principle
Quality
- Integrated quality management system
- Development and production-supporting quality processes
- Application of quality methods (D and P FMEA, PPAP, control plans, …)
- The most modern fittings with measurement and testing equipment
- Constant high level of quality
Logistics
- Individual packaging and logistics concepts according to the client’s wishes and suitability expediency
- International shipping
- Environmentally responsible single-use or environmentally friendly re-usable packaging, such as telescopic boxes made from paperboard on a Euro pallet, metal mesh boxes, special pallets for delivery to North and South America and Asia
- Labelling of the product carrier with barcodes to help with product identification
- Send delivery note and invoice via email, fax, post or electronically via telecommunications
Aftersales
- Long-term product availability even after series end
- Determination of spare parts concept
- Delivery of assembly and spare parts kits