Pierce Industries

12/31/2018

At Pierce, we’re always trying to look to the future of our industry.

Michael P. Collins is President of MPC Management, a consulting company that focuses on the problems and challenges of small and midsize manufacturers of industrial products. In this article, he shares his thoughts on why investments into automation should be coupled with investments in employee training and education.

Invest in your people. We’re inspired to continue to invest in ours.

American companies rushed to invest in automation, but not the training needed to operate, maintain, troubleshoot and repair the equipment.

12/28/2018

You see something that’s broken. We see the opportunity to remanufacture it.

Parts that have been used, worn, and are hanging onto their last bit of life are the best candidates for remanufacturing. In this process, we disassemble the product, clean the parts, and then choose whether we’ll reuse, replace, or repair them based on their condition. The parts are then reassembled and tested for functionality, resulting in a product (or sub-assembly of a product) being returned to like-new condition.

12/25/2018

May your day be merry and bright.

Happy holidays, from all of us at Pierce.

12/21/2018

When designing your industrial rollers, we use either inertia friction welding or cylindrical roll forming.

Inertia friction welding allows us to fuse 2 separate metals. When it comes to rollers, we can easily weld a gudgeon onto a tube, creating your roller with minimal manual labor and virtually no wasted material.

Pictured is an example of inertia friction welding. Instead of starting with a solid piece of material and machining off quite a bit of material, we can take individual pieces that are already to spec and fuse them together.

12/18/2018

Industrial rollers are typically manufactured in one of three ways.

A solid thru-shaft roller includes machining the shaft, machining the discs, manually welding the discs to the shaft, and then manually welding the shaft once it’s been positioned in the tube. While this process works, it involves a lot of manual labor and materials.

Another method is a press-fit, which requires the machining of end caps and a tube, and then press-fitting the end caps onto the tube. This method requires fewer parts and machine time than the solid thru-shaft method.

A solid core roller is a single piece of material; the rollers are machined at each end of the solid core. While this method requires the fewest pieces and machine time, there’s quite a bit of wasted material in the solid core component.

When we design our rollers, we eliminate as much material, machine time, and manual labor as possible by using one of two methods: inertia friction welding or cylindrical roll forming.

11/30/2018

Rollers can have a wide range of sizes, materials, and applications.

Work with our design engineers to create custom rollers, unique to your needs.

https://www.pierceindustries.com/custom-roller-designs/

11/28/2018

The inertia friction welding station at Pierce is one of our favorite places. This type of welding is truly incredible! Watch this video to see it in action, and read the article for an in-depth study of the process.

https://www.pierceindustries.com/resources/how-inertia-friction-welding-works/

11/26/2018

“Mars is there, waiting to be reached.” -Buzz Aldrin

Today, NASA’s vehicle Atlas V-401 will land on Mars for InSight, a discovery mission to learn about the interior of the planet.

Hey NASA: if you need rollers, ours are out of this world!

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/quick-facts/

11/23/2018

The packaging industry has a wide variety of uses for rollers. That’s why we have a team of engineers dedicated to creating custom designs for your specific applications.

Interested in consulting with a designer?

https://www.pierceindustries.com/custom-roller-designs/

11/21/2018

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

At Pierce, we are thankful for our loyal employees and our great customers.

11/19/2018

Our President and CEO, Dick Webb, is a hands-on leader who brings a customer-centric focus to all of our projects,

Read his personal message and learn about his vision of the company.

https://www.pierceindustries.com/about/

11/16/2018

Inertia friction welding is the pride and joy of our machining capabilities. Watch this video to see how it works, and read the article for a detailed description of how effective and efficient it truly is.

https://www.pierceindustries.com/resources/how-inertia-friction-welding-works/