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IND-05Industry
Off-Highway & Agricultural Equipment
High-volume structural and hydraulic components for machines that work in dirt, cold, and vibration — where cost per unit is the program.
- Highest program volume
- 40,000 pieces per year
- Robotic welding cells
- 11
- Typical DFM saving
- 8–20% of part cost
- Lead plant
- Vela Norte Assembly
Sector overview
What manufacturing for this sector actually involves
Off-highway programs are won and lost on cost per unit at a committed annual volume. That makes DFM the highest-value work we do here: consolidating weldments into castings, machining into net shape, and assemblies into fewer joints.
Volumes justify dedicated tooling and automation, so these programs typically run on robotic welding cells and pallet-pool machining with fixed takt.
Field failure is dominated by corrosion and fatigue at joints. Both are addressed at the process level rather than by specifying a heavier part.
Robotic cell welding a heavy equipment loader arm structure with fixtures indexed for volume production
REQSector requirements
Four things this sector demands that others do not.
- 01
Cost engineered at volume
DFM applied to consolidate parts and joints, with the saving quantified per unit before tooling is committed.
- 02
Repeatable automated welding
Robotic cells with dedicated fixtures holding weld quality across shifts and across the life of the program.
- 03
Corrosion life in service
Blast and multi-coat systems validated to 1,000-hour salt spray, specified for the actual operating environment.
- 04
Schedule reliability
Forecast-driven release with buffer strategy agreed at launch, supporting 98.6% on-time delivery group-wide.
Components we buildBOM
- Loader arms and boom structures
- Hydraulic manifolds and valve blocks
- Axle housings and final drive components
- Cab and ROPS structures
- Implement mounting frames
- Cylinder tubes, rods, and end caps
Standards worked toSTD
- AWS D1.1 structural welding
- ISO 3834-2 welding quality requirements
- ISO 12944 corrosion protection
- ISO 9227 salt spray testing
- ISO 9001:2015 quality management
Certification scope and current certificate numbers are listed on the quality page.
CAPCapabilities used
The disciplines this sector's work usually routes through
- CAP-02
Heavy Fabrication & Weldments
Structural weldments to 40 tonnes, with coded welding procedures, stress relief, and large-envelope machining under one roof.
View capability - CAP-04
Systems Assembly & Integration
Mechanical, hydraulic, and electromechanical assembly with functional test — delivered as a complete, tested module rather than a box of parts.
View capability - CAP-07
Manufacturing Engineering & DFM
Design for manufacturability, tolerance analysis, and process development — applied before a program is quoted, not after it struggles.
View capability
PRJSector project
A program delivered in this sector
RFQRequest for quotation
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