American Friction Welding provides high quality friction welding and turn-key products that are manufactured to customer specifications. As one of the largest full service friction welding shops in the United States, we can handle nearly any customer's demands.
Turn-Key Solutions
Our full service friction welding shop gives customers the opportunity to place a single-vendor order to have their materials manufactured to their print specs – right down to the final finished assembly.
Turning
We have a variety of CNC lathes, tracer lathes, and chuckers. Our turning equipment can also run very economically for orders of specific size and quantities. At AFW, we can turn very small parts or parts up to 3-1/2 ft (42") in diameter and 13 ft long.
Our long lathe beds range between 80" and 156"; thus our experience as specialists in shafting, rollers, pins and hydraulic components.
Milling
Horizontal milling machines and vertical milling machines range from Bridgeport knee-mills to our largest CNC milling machine with an envelope of 240"x79"x39". Our diversity of skill and experience includes machining complex castings, plate stock, large forgings and shafts.
Many machines have a palletized system or shuttle transfer system for maximum productivity. Most machines come with a rotary table, adding a 4th axis. Angle head tooling can be added for a 5th axis.
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Support for Welding Analysis and Design Engineering
Prototypes to Full Production
Researching your application and end-user needs, we provide consultative design engineering support alongside your engineering staff. By working on prototypes, in conjunction with your design team, we'll produce more cost-effective, productive or time-saving solutions together and still ensure adherence to your specs and budget.
Welding Specs
Friction welding expertise and experience are keys to delivering finished components to your exact specifications. Due to tight tolerances many customers demand, we invest in maintaining the best resources to fulfill their needs: experienced friction welding operators and equipment, testing engineers, quality gauges and inspection controls.
AFW's customers place "quality" and adherence to exact specs on the priorities they demand for friction welding services. Our goal is to deliver.
ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFICATION
Process Analysis (KanBan)
KanBan is a concept related to lean and just-in-time (JIT) production. KanBan systems work on the basis that each process on a production line will pull only the required components - just prior to when they're needed: delivering the right parts (and the right number of parts) at the right time.
AFW's on-site warehouse and complete KanBan program create a full cycle that enables our team to quote more accurately on ETAs and costs.
Since initiating our KanBan process analysis, we're consistently meeting customer needs and standards, and our customers are receiving faster lead times.
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