RWC has recently completed several successful simultaneous engineering projects. These projects are primarily with major appliance and automotive manufacturers who must meet government regulated energy standards for 2001. We have successfully completed projects with General Electric, Whirlpool, Caterpillar, General Motors, Walker Muffler, Delphi, and Autoliv.
    Our experience with simultaneous engineering projects has proven to be beneficial for our customers and RWC. Our involvement with the product design from the beginning, along with the development of a functional production process, has enabled these projects to be completed on time, and at a cost that is acceptable to both companies. Partnerships provide for complete confidentiality, which allows our customer to introduce new products without exposing the design or knowledge of the project itself to the Industry, and specifically, to the competition.

Product Management

    RWC assigns a Project Manager to each project from the award of the order through the completion of the warranty period. This person's prime responsibility it the successful execution of the project, from engineering through final acceptance and for warranty matters thereafter. The Project Management Department reports directly to the President and CEO of the company. Projects are executed in a matrix reporting environment.
    The Project Manager represents the customer during those periods when the customer is not present at RWC and represents the RWC to the customer as the primary point-of-contact. The Project Manager can be reached for any and all questions, and is responsible to provide, in a timely manner, responses and solutions.
The Project Manager develops an integrated project schedule of the engineering, manufacturing, test, and shipping activities for the machinery, as well as customer interface requirements and invoicing schedules. The "Schedule" is produced in Microsoft Project(c) and updated to reflect progress against the schedule approximately every two (2) weeks.

Equipment and Tooling

    RWC is known in the industry for building robust equipment that continues to run for years in adverse production and factory environments. Our equipment is designed for ruggedness, ease of maintenance, accessibility, long-life, safety of the operator(s) and quick changeover for replacement of perishable tooling items.
    Design philosophies have been developed to emphasize proper clamping points, critical locating points, ergonomics, safety, modularity, ease of tear down for shipping and installation, and QUALITY of the end product. RWC utilizes a CMM and other modern inspection equipment to inspect and certify that our tooling components and customer parts meet the required specifications.
    In conjunction with our process development and assembly work in the AIRBAG INDUSTRY, RWC has become adept in other Quality Systems programs such as mistake-proofing, FMEA, Cpk capability, and lot traceability.

Engineering

    RWC's full-service Engineering Department incorperates both Mechanical and Controls Engineering. The department is fully staffed with the technical expertise necessary to support our customer's needs.
Close communications with customers and frequent design review coordination allow us to fulfill schedule and machine design commitments. Each design is engineered to be a truly cost-effective product. We utilize PC-based AutoCAD* (*trademark) for Computer-Aided Design and have the ability to accept selected electronic media for part prints.

Manufacturing

    In addition to our Engineering Department, our Manufacturing Department maintains a complete staff of service technicians and skilled tradesmen who test and develop the systems produced at RWC. These same technicians then start-up and debug those same systems at the customer's plant. They work hand in hand with the mechanical and controls engineers during the development and debug time. Our engineers and technicians are fully trained on all current controls technology.
    Our modern manufacturing facility in Bay City, Michigan offers the capability of handling large projects for the worlds major manufacturers. We have a completely unobstructed assembly floor which measures 122,000 square feet with a crane clearance of 22 feet under the hook.
We have several cranes that range in capacity from 10 to 35 tons. The most complex manufacturing units can me completely designed, built, assembled and tested with actual production runs prior to shipment. In addition, RWC has the capability to produce prototype samples, and if required, pre-production assemblies in our facility. This minimizes risk and assures faster start-up in your plant.