From Link Magazine, Summer 2014
Over twenty-five years ago when I first started working in the fastener industry PPAP, ISO9000, and zero defects were not yet commonplace ideas. In fact, when I first started, sorting was all manual and reserved pretty much only for salvaging parts that a customer returned with a major problem. Today, it is a very different story. A large percentage of fasteners made or sold in the U.S. are sorted, with some companies serving certain industries or customers adopting the philosophy of sorting 100% of their
parts.