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ESCO Capabilities and Certifications
There is no disputing that global sourcing is on the rise. The U.S. alone imported more than $1.3 trillion worth of goods and services in 2001. It is similarly obvious why offshore sourcing is so attractive: most companies report a 10% to 35% cost savings by sourcing from low-cost-region suppliers. 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 optimal alignment, management and control of the total cost of ownership of supply relationships. While many companies have global outsourcing capabilities, ESCO stands alone by combining cutting edge engineering expertise with cost effective global sourcing. This ensures that ESCO parts sourced from Mexico, the Slovak Republic, China or India possess the very same quality and reliability customers expect from ESCO. Outstanding metallurgical innovation is an ESCO core competency. ESCO employs highly skilled metallurgists who develop alloys and processing methods that ensure ESCO products possess the right combination of strength, wear resistance and weldability. In the 1960s, it was ESCO metallurgists who 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, ensuring delivery of steel products worthy of the ESCO brand. It is a tribute to ESCO innovation and metallurgical expertise that virtually every major competitor throughout the world attempts to replicate ESCO alloys. Innovative products that deliver superior value are key to ESCO Corporation’s remarkable success. The ever-changing global marketplace demands robust and out-of-the-box research and development expertise. ESCO engineers are equipped with the tools, experience and field understanding to meet – and often 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 processes and pre-manufacture and field testing processes. The efficiencies of computer aided design (CAD) also add speed, value and accuracy to tooling production. Key ESCO customers then thoroughly field test initial production parts and work with engineers to make corrections and enhancements. ESCO uses world class material development processes to ensure that new parts deliver 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. Rapid prototyping takes virtual designs from CAD or animation modeling software, transforms them into cross sections, still virtual, and creates each cross section in physical space, one after the next, until the model is finished. Rapid prototyping is most commonly used for design validation of engineered products, pattern making, wax tools for investment castings and show quality models for sales presentations. It is a WYSIWYG process where the virtual and physical models correspond nearly identically. ESCO has excelled at the use of 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. Throughout the industry, rapid prototyping process time generally ranges from 20 minutes to 14 hours, depending on the design’s size and complexity. 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. Supply chain management (SCM) is the process of planning, implementing and controlling the supply chain’s operations in order to satisfy customer requirements as efficiently as possible. SCM spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory and finished goods from point-of-origin to point-of-consumption. ESCO purchasers and supply chain planners have the proper tools to manage the global supply base of raw material, components and finished inventories. ESCO enterprise resource planning (ERP) 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 (SQE) and Statistical Process Control (SPC). 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 (DC), Single Crystal (SC) and Equiaxed Castings ESCO Turbine Technologies 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 the preferred solutions 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 maximum turbine efficiency in the harshest environments – especially vital as carriers face ever increasing fuel costs. Through constant innovation and focus on customer needs ESCO takes metal manufacturing technology to new levels. 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 Turbine Technologies offers investment casting solutions for the aerospace, defense and security, government, micro-turbine, turbocharger and industrial gas turbine markets.
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 hardfacing, which involves depositing a wear-resistant metal alloy onto a metal part. The goal is to improve resistance to wear, erosion, corrosion, abrasion, impact and heat. Hardfaced parts can last three to 10 times longer than unprotected surfaces.
For more than 90 years, ESCO Corporation’s unwavering commitment to meeting customer needs has made ESCO the preferred choice for quality, value and speed. As global customers demand higher quality products at lower prices, ESCO delivers with innovative, cost-saving products and services. From plant to laboratory, from engineering to sales – ESCO professionals apply the principles of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement to all that they do. All ESCO facilities are annually measured through an assessment program called QVS Lean Links, and each location’s quality management systems are third-party certified (ISO 9001). The result: waste elimination, reduced lead times and standardized production practices.
ESCO Certification By Site ESCO Engineered Products Site Certifications
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As global customers demand higher quality products at lower prices, ESCO meets the challenge with innovative, cost-saving capabilities. The celebrated ESCO culture of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement is applied at all ESCO locations worldwide and demands a disciplined approach to quality, value and speed. As a result, all ESCO locations’ quality management systems are third-party certified
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, affordable quality.