Electronic Fasteners, Inc. provides fasteners of all types – plus a wide range of related products – to virtually every industry. We have approximately $2 million dollars in inventory with 25,000 different items, more than 100 million pieces available to service...
In today’s fast-paced business world and uncertain economic times, it’s rare to find workforce stability and longevity. Sadly, for many workers across the country today, employment in one job is measured in a few years, or even months. We’re happy, though, to report...
EFI has written about this topic previously in 2014; click here to read the old article. It may sound contradictory to mention the compound “nylon” when talking about hardware. After all, isn’t nylon basically a plastic? Well, yes, it is, but nylon has so many...
Many manufacturers today utilize the proven Just-in-Time (JIT) model for inventory management, keeping just enough inventory on hand to keep production rolling without having excessive capital tied up maintaining large quantities of parts in stock. If you own or...
The benefit to most threaded fasteners such as bolts and screws is that they can be installed and uninstalled multiple times to enable the assembly and reassembly of the products in which they are used. The downside is that they can unintentionally loosen and cause...
Wire management can be an issue for a wide range of product manufacturing and system installations – from electronic systems to complex IT infrastructures. The only way to manage all of those wires, cables, and connections is with wire management products from...
Virtually every home and business workshop contains some version of a cigar box or old mayonnaise jar filled with loose screws, nuts, and bolts. Need a fastener for a project or a product? Just shake that container out on the workbench, rummage around, find the right...
Anyone who has dealt with various metals and alloys in tools, blades, fasteners, and other metal products has probably run across the terms hardening and tempering. But what exactly do these terms mean and how do they affect metal? To begin with, both of these terms...
Inventory is one of those necessary evils that every manufacturer seeks to control. The goal is to not sit on excess raw material, tying up large amounts of cash and space, but also not run short, halting production and losing time and money. Having the bare minimum...
So what exactly is torque? It’s defined as a twisting force that tends to cause rotation. When a socket is applied to a nut and turned down, the force rotates the bolt. As it tightens, the bolt has a tension stress acted upon it which stretches out the bolt.
