Tooling
Many companies in our business have a "tool room." KMC has a fully staffed 20,000 square foot facility dedicated to tool design and production. This operation complements significant tooling capabilities within our production plants and allows us to complete even complex progressive tooling in as little as six weeks from design start, often even faster.
Our multi-facility, team-oriented approach to tool design and build provides exceptional levels of control and flexibility. We have the capacity to work efficiently on concurrent projects, as well as to deploy combined manpower for quick turnaround jobs.
Like our production plants, KMC's tooling facility is ISO/TS 16949 certified, ensuring consistency at all points in the tooling process. And the similarity to our production environment doesn't end there. In fact, the tooling facility is equipped with a 200 ton, automatic feed press dedicated to tool test and evaluation.
The ability to trial run tools to full rate right in the tooling facility ensures that production is not disrupted for tool debugging. At KMC, in-press tool development happens before the manufacturing floor, not on it.
