MFCO’s new Murdock plant has been designed and engineered using lean concepts and a cellular approach to processing. This concept has virtually eliminated costly queue time enabling MFCO to offer time efficient processing at very competitive costs.

Processing includes

• Penetrant Inspection
• Boric/Sulfuric Anodize
• Chemical Conversion
• Prime (common primers)

The Objective: Cost savings by the creation of LTA with Customers on Aluminum parts that fall within a 36” X 36” size range.
Contract Previsions

• Guaranteed 72 hour turn, with unit price penalty clause. Current published turn 7 days.
• No expedite fee or unit price premium added for the 72 hour turn. (Order Entry to Certification)
• Incorporate RFID tracking linked between Customer and MFCO.
• Rules based messaging provided.
• Electronic data transfer.
• Set pricing with no escalation clause for set number of years.

This facility, Metal Finishing Company North, has been designed to drastically reduce queue time and eliminate travel time between processes. This is our answer to the customers call to decrease lead time without increasing processing costs