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Precision Spacers
High Volume Precision Grinding
Selective Fit Precision Shims
Lock Plates
Selective Fit Thrust Washers
Design engineers around the world favor selective fit thrust washers with close tolerance varying thicknesses to solve their design challenges, and compensate for manufacturing variability. Whether it’s a selective thrust washer series with five unique thicknesses, or fifty, Northern Industrial Manufacturing is well equipped to handle your “tough to forecast” selective fit thrust washer applications. Northern Industrial selective fit thrust washers offer our customers the following:
- Repeatable Precision
- Reduced Lead Time
- Enhanced Supply Chain Flexibility
- Sophisticated Color Code System
- Inventory Reduction
- Increased Assembly Pass Rates
- Vendor Managed Inventory
If your application calls for selective fit thrust washers Northern Industrial Manufacturing can enhance your supply chain flexibility and drastically reduce your inventory. We work with our customers on a daily basis ensuring they have the correct inventory needed to keep their assembly lines running. When there is an un-forecasted shift in the thickness required at the line, our supply chain flexibility and vertical integration allows us to react far quicker than the competition. Through innovation and supply chain enhancements, we have been able to reduce the required lead time for our finished products to less than 2 weeks; and in many cases even less.
The tolerance of the Northern Industrial Manufacturing selective fit thrust washers are:
- Flatness: 0.001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Parallelism: 0 .001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Thickness: +/-.0005 inches (0.0125 mm)
- Surface Finish: 0 .25 Micro Meter (10 micro inches)
Precision Shims
Anytime our customers incorporate the use of tapered roller bearings or other anti-friction bearings or gear sets that require axial setting, one of the primary choice for design engineers is precision shims. Holding tolerances as tight as +/- 0.0004 inches (0.010 mm), our customers leverage the tolerances and capabilities of Northern Industrial Manufacturing’s precision shims to set their most important gear sets and bearings. The tolerance of the Northern Industrial Manufacturing precision shims are:
- Flatness: 0.001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Parallelism: 0 .001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Thickness: +/- 0.0004 inches (0.010 mm)
- Surface Finish: 0.25 Micro Meter (10 micro inches)
In addition to providing enhancements to the tolerances of our product, Northern Industrial Manufacturing also offers our customers a wide variety of secondary operations that can be performed on the product. Those options are:
- Color Code Identification
- Heat Treatment
- Coating
- Plating
- Heat Set
If you are in need of high quality precision shims whether in family, series or selective in nature, or you have a single part number in mind, Northern Industrial has the ability to exceed your expectation.
High Volume Thrust Washers
At Northern Industrial Manufacturing we have always focused on traditional production or higher volume products. For years our customers have trusted Northern Industrial Manufacturing when it comes to the supply of their high volume production thrust washers. Many in the purchasing community consider thrust washers to be the same as a general commodity washer you could get at a hardware store. Thrust washers produced by Northern Industrial Manufacturing are predominantly used as a race that supports frictionless bearings. Because of this, there is an increased precision required when it comes to the thickness, flatness and parallelism specifications. At Northern Industrial Manufacturing our high volume thrust washers, with their precision, quality and tolerances could not be further from your conventional washer.
Traditionally the Northern Industrial value has been much higher on heavier duty applications that are used to spread a rotating load over a large surface area. In many cases our product is selected over needle bearings or other anti -friction bearing choices due to:
- Ease of Assembly
- Cost Effectiveness
- Lead Time
- Quality
Northern Industrial thrust washers have been a trusted choice by engineers in high volume applications such as automotive transmissions, differentials, and transfer cases since 1978.
Lock Plates
When your thrust washers, shims and other metals stampings require a form of anti-rotation, this is known as a lock plate. At Northern Industrial we have been producing lock plates for differentials and other automotive applications for many years. While there are many benefits we can offer for your high volume production lock plates, the core of our product line is enhanced tolerances, low cost high volume manufacturing and vertical integration. The enhanced tolerances we can offer are:
- Flatness: 0.001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Parallelism: 0 .001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Thickness: +/- 0.0004 inches (0.010 mm)
- Surface Finish: 0.25 Micro Meter (10 micro inches)
In addition to providing enhancements to the tolerances of our product, Northern Industrial Manufacturing also offers our customers a wide variety of secondary operations that can be performed on the part. Those options are:
- Color Code Identification
- Heat Treatment
- Coating
- Plating
- Heat Set
If your application requires lock plates, Northern Industrial Manufacturing can supply your high volume production assembly lines.
Precision Spacers
In those applications where axial preload, gear chatter, and fuel efficiency become critical, customers chose to incorporate a more sophisticated precision spacer into their application. The most common applications for our precision spacers to be used in are:
- Automotive Transmissions
- Transfer Cases
- Differential Cases
- Automotive Rear Ends
Similar to the precision selective fit thrust washer, the tolerances we can offer for precision spacers are:
- Flatness: 0.001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Parallelism: 0 .001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Thickness: +/-0.0004 inches (0.010 mm)
- Surface Finish: 0.25 Micro Meter (10 micro inches)
In addition to providing enhancements to the tolerances of our precision spacers, Northern Industrial Manufacturing also offers our customers a wide variety of secondary operations that can be performed on the part. These options are:
- Color Code Identification
- Heat Treatment
- Coating
- Plating
- Heat Set
- ID & OD Turning
Trust your difficult, and most precise applications to Northern Industrial Manufacturing, where our precision shim product offering can provide value to the most sophisticated operations and assembly lines.
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Metal Discs
When your application calls for metal discs, Northern Industrial Manufacturing has you covered. With up to 175 ton presses, and a variety of steel options to choose from, we can be your source for high volume precision metal discs.
The sizes of our metal discs range from roughly 1″ (25.4 mm) all the way to 5″ (125 mm).
Selective Fit Precision Shims
Design engineers around the world favor selective fit precision shims with close tolerance varying thicknesses to solve their design challenges. Whether it’s a selective precision shim series with five unique thicknesses, or fifty, Northern Industrial Manufacturing is well equipped to handle your tough to forecast selective fit precision shim applications. The Northern Industrial selective fit precision shims offer our customers the following:
- Repeatable Precision
- Reduced Lead Time
- Enhanced Supply Chain Flexibility
- Sophisticated Color Code System
- Inventory Reduction
- Increased Assembly Pass Rates
- Vendor Managed Inventory
If your application calls for selective fit precision shims, Northern Industrial can enhance your supply chain flexibility and drastically reduce your inventory. We work with our customers on a daily basis ensuring they have the correct inventory needed to keep their assembly lines running. When there is an un-forecasted shift in the thickness required at the line, because of our supply chain flexibility and vertical integration we can react far quicker than the competition. At Northern Industrial Manufacturing through innovation and supply chain enhancements we have been able to reduce the required lead time for our finished products to less than 2 weeks; and in many cases even less.
The tolerance of the Northern Industrial Manufacturing selective fit precision shims are:
- Flatness: 0.001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Parallelism: 0 .001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Thickness: +/- 0.0004 inches (0.010 mm)
- Surface Finish: 0.25 Micro Meter (10 micro inches)
To aid in the effectiveness of our product we have developed a sophisticated operation that allows us to color code our selective precision shims, to ensure that those at the plant level are putting the correct part into the assembly.
Trust your hardest, most precise applications to Northern Industrial Manufacturing where our precision selective shim product offering can provide value to the most sophisticated operations and assembly lines.
Metal Stamping
Although traditionally our focus at Northern Industrial Manufacturing has been on our shim, spacer and thrust washer operations, we also have the ability to provide our customers with general metal stampings solutions. With presses as large as 175 tons, we are able to offer many advantages to our customers, providing a variety of shapes and sizes to support your high volume metal stamping production needs. Because of the way we have setup our supply chain we require that the parts be relatively flat coming off our press.
In order to ensure control over cost and supply chain flexibility, we have vertically integrated our processes so that the following are all performed in house:
- Stamping
- High Volume Precision Grinding
- Media Finish
- Debur
- Color Code (Selective , Series and Family Parts)
- Heat Set
- Steel Reduction
- Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
- Tool and Die Maintenance
Shims
Anytime our customers incorporate the use of tapered roller bearings, other anti-friction bearings or gear sets that require axial setting, one of the primary choices for design engineers is shims. If precision is not required, Northern Industrial Manufacturing can scale back the level of precision to offer price reductions to our customers. It is at this point where customers can open up the flatness, thickness and parallelism tolerances.
Our value traditionally has been delivered on the harder to forecast selective product. In many cases our product is utilized to set tapered roller bearings, or gears in the application. The shims produced by Northern Industrial Manufacturing offers our customers:
- Ease of Assembly
- Cost Effectiveness
- Lead Time
- Quality
Northern Industrial shims have been a trusted choice by design engineers in high volume applications such as transfer cases, automotive transmissions, and differentials since 1978. Similar to some of our other product lines, the tolerances we can offer for shims are:
- Flatness: 0.001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Parallelism: 0 .001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Thickness: +/-0.001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Surface Finish: 0.25 Micro Meter (10 micro inches)
In addition to providing enhancements to the tolerances of our product, Northern Industrial Manufacturing also offers our customers a wide variety of secondary operations that can be performed on the part. Those options are:
- Color Code Identification
- Heat Treatment
- Coating
- Plating
- Heat Set
Precision Thrust Washers
When axial preload, gear chatter, and fuel efficiency becomes critical, customers chose to design more sophisticated precision thrust washers for their application needs. The most common applications for our product to be used in are:
- Automotive Transmissions
- Transfer Cases
- Differential Cases
- Automotive Rear Axles
Similar to the precision shim, the tolerances we can offer for precision thrust washers are:
- Flatness: 0.001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Parallelism: 0 .001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Thickness: +/-0.0004 inches (0.010 mm)
- Surface Finish: 0.25 Micro Meter (10 micro inches)
In addition to providing enhancements to the tolerances of our product, Northern Industrial Manufacturing also offers our customers a wide variety of secondary operations that can be performed on the part. Those options are:
- Color Code Identification
- Heat Treatment
- Coating
- Plating
- Heat Set
We at Northern Industrial Manufacturing understand that application engineers require drastically enhanced tolerances when it comes to thickness, flatness and parallelism. Using internally developed and vertically integrated manufacturing processes, Northern Industrial’s precision thrust washer line is second to none.
Thrust Plates
When your thrust application requires a locking device such as bolts or clamps, Northern Industrial can be your source for a variety of metal stamping shapes to ensure anti-rotation. We call this product line our lock plate line. Northern Industrial has produced a wide variety of thrust plates used in a variety of different applications. High volume production thrust plates come in standard or enhanced tolerances depending on the customer’s requirements. These thrust plates can come in various sizes, shapes and profiles. The Northern Industrial thrust plate goes through a low cost high volume manufacturing process that leverages our vertical integration. The enhanced tolerances we can offer for lock plates is:
- Flatness: 0.001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Parallelism: 0 .001 inches (0.025 mm)
- Thickness: +/- 0.0005 inches (0.0125 mm)
- Surface Finish: 0.25 Micro Meter (10 micro inches)
In addition to providing enhancements to the tolerances of our product, Northern Industrial Manufacturing also offers our customers a wide variety of secondary operations that can be performed on the product. Those options are:
- Turning
- Heat Treatment
- Coating
- Plating
If your application requires thrust plates, Northern Industrial Manufacturing can supply your high volume production assembly lines.
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Harrison Twp, MI 48045-1303
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