Technological Excellence
Our customers have exacting needs, so Scot Industries is committed to investing in technology and quality control to provide the roundest, straightest, strongest, toughest, most sophisticated product on the market.
Through our propriety testing methods, Scot offers an array of services to assure the highest quality and to root out and correct for imperfections when they arise. A sampling of our capabilities and methods include:
1. Technical Services:
| For: | What: | How: | Results: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customers | Phone and e-mail consultation | Testing – mechanical, metallurgical, and chemical | Better information |
| Scot sales and other groups | Materials evaluation | Analysis | Better trained and equipped sales staff |
| Potential customers | Failure analysis | Conclusions | Development of improved processes |
| Suppliers | On site visits | Recommendations | Development of new products |
| Technical presentation | Quality improvement | ||
| On site consultation | Technical advantages | ||
| Plant Tour |
| Testing Equipment Includes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sample Preparation | Mechanical Test Equipment | Metallurgical Examination | Other |
| Saws – abrasives, band, carbide blades | Tensile Testers | Rotary grinding/polishing wheels | Salt Spray Chamber |
| Lathes, mills, CNC equipment | Charpy Impact testers with chillers to -40° F | Sample Press | Chemical Analysis |
| Shot blaster, grinders, belt sanders | Hardness testers | Stereo and Inverted Microscopes | |
| Digital image analysis | |||
| SEM analysis | |||
| Micro-Hardness tester | |||
2. Development of New Products, Processes and new markets:
Tubes, Bars, Pins and shafts
Scot Industries is continuously searching for:
- New products
- Better quality
- New processes
- New markets
3. Vendor Approval:
- Visit plants to evaluate manufacturing processes and technologies
- Evaluate product quality
- Continuously looking for cost effective solutions and/or high quality producers
We are here to support sales and help customers.