Ameriform
COATINGS, LLC
Going along with cleaning costs, visualize your plant clean and dry. Look at your cost of gloves if you are using a “wet” lubricant — one major plant spends over $500,000 on gloves alone. What are you spending? Do you have a floor scrubber in constant operation to clean the floors? What is your cost for that? What is your cost for die maintenance? How often do you sharpen your dies?
An automotive supplier reduces the parts needing to be washed by 60%. Sludge haul-off of 75¢/gallon is eliminated, and the need for an auto floor scrubber is removed. Glove costs drop dramatically. Total estimated direct and indirect savings: over $500,000.
At a major Tier 1 supplier doing deep draw work, frictional heat is reduced by 100°F (30%) with AMERIFORM®. Estimates for tool-life extension ranged from 30% to 60% across the plant's engineers — we go conservative and use 30% for cost-reduction projections. Final tool life extension reaches over 50%.