Fineblanking

In Nashville, Feintool implemented a fully integrated, flexible manufacturing cell to produce clutch plates for automotive transmissions. The high-volume system runs from the coil to finished, ready-to-assemble products in one continuous operation.

Feintool optimizes material usage but also creates parts with perfect flatness, tighter tolerances and repeatable Ra finish quality. Production occurs at 50-plus strokes a minute – speed approaching conventional processes but with the high quality of fineblanking. As a result, component costs are reduced by 20 to 40 percent.

Feintool offers training in 16 technical and business administration fields at seven locations in Switzerland, Germany and the United States.

In Cincinnati, Feintool distinguishes itself as the first state government-accredited private enterprise permitted to train and qualify toolmakers. Future toolmakers obtain the necessary practical skills and quickly become fully integrated team members. They even receive an apprentice wage, which is unusual in the United States.

Feintool also pays school fees if the student performs well in the classroom.