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Global sourcing entails identifying, evaluating, negotiating and configuring supply across multiple geographies to reduce costs, maximize performance and mitigate risks. Sourcing is also a cornerstone of total cost management (TCM), a technological and process framework for the alignment, management and control of the total cost of ownership of supply relationships. The combination of ESCO's engineering expertise and global sourcing helps to ensure that ESCO parts sourced from Mexico, the Slovak Republic, China or India possess the very same quality and reliability customers expect from ESCO.
Metallurgical innovation is an ESCO core competency. ESCO employs highly skilled metallurgists who develop alloys and processing methods to ensure ESCO products possess a combination of strength, wear resistance and weld ability. In the 1960s, ESCO metallurgists developed Alloy 12S and Alloy 12K – which became the first modern, ultra-high-strength alloys used for points and wear parts. ESCO metallurgical scientists continuously improve alloys to ensure delivery of steel products worthy of the ESCO brand.
Design and product optimization engineering are steadfast principles of ESCO culture. The ever-changing global marketplace demands robust research and development expertise. ESCO engineers are equipped with the tools, experience and field understanding to meet – and anticipate – customers’ needs. Prior to field testing, engineers scrutinize product prototypes in a state-of-the art laboratory. ESCO engineers and product specialists employ the latest computer systems for exhaustive design, pre-manufacture and field testing processes. The efficiencies of computer-aided design (CAD) also add speed, value and accuracy to tooling production. ESCO also works with key customers to field test initial production parts to ensure maximum performance and value
In today’s competitive marketplace, rapid prototyping is the industry standard for producing low-cost, highly-accurate product prototypes prior to committing to production. ESCO has used rapid prototyping since the 1980s and is able to produce functional prototypes for a vast array of applications. Using rapid prototyping, ESCO engineers identify design issues and challenges early in the design process. ESCO uses modern Z-Corp 3-D, full color Z810 and Z402 printers to produce prototypes in less than an hour – ensuring quality, value and speed to the customer.
ESCO purchasers and supply chain planners manage ESCO's global supply base of raw material, components and finished inventories. ESCO enterprise resource planning systems integrate data that is leveraged to measure supplier performance for quality and on-time delivery. ESCO successfully monitors vital suppliers using Supplier Quality Engineering and Statistical Process Control. ESCO planners also understand the importance of visibility along the entire supply chain, from customer to manufacturer to supplier. ESCO works shoulder-to-shoulder with customers to implement systems that provide online access to customer inventory needs and pulls inventory accordingly – allowing manufacture on a just-in-time basis.
Directionally Solidified Single Crystal and Equiax Castings ESCO Turbine Technologies Group offers Directionally Solidified (DS) and Single Crystal (SC) casting capabilities to produce extremely high temperature components for use in aircraft and industrial gas turbine airfoil applications. ESCO components are a preferred solution because we are able to design the highest turbine thermal efficiencies and component durability. ESCO DS and SC castings, equiax blades and midsize nozzle and vane castings provide precise dimensions and help ensure turbine efficiency in a harsh environment.
ESCO Turbine Technologies serves customers that require super-alloy precision investment castings for gas turbines aerospace engines. ESCO has the capacity to produce castings from ounces to hundreds of pounds, from prototype to production quantities. Investment casting is the solution of choice when high temperature metallurgy is required or where complex geometry eliminates competing processes, such as machining or forging. ESCO is able to air pour up to 500 lbs (227 kg) and 40 in3 (656 cm3) molds, and can vacuum pour from 20 lbs to 500 lbs (227 kg) and molds up to 40 in3 (656 cm3)
ESCO specializes in a variety of tungsten carbide and chrome white iron overlay materials that increases the wear life of ESCO products three to ten times longer than unprotected surfaces. The product application carefully evaluated and the overlay placement is precision engineered for the optimum amount and location. Overlay materials are added to castings in the raw condition and becomes an integral part of the component during the heat treatment process.
For nearly 100 years, ESCO Corporation’s commitment to meeting customer needs has made ESCO a preferred choice for quality, value and speed. From plant to laboratory, from engineering to sales – ESCO professionals apply the principles of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement to deliver innovative, cost-effective products and services.
ESCO Steel Treaters offers state-of-the-art heat treating for a variety of applications from small machine shops to the exacting demands of the aerospace industry. With specialties in tool steel and vacuum heat treating, ESCO Steel Treaters provides superior and affordable quality
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