Fasteners

Fasteners covers bolts, nuts, screws, washers and special fasteners.

Typical requirements include wire rod heat, billet and blank, heading and thread rolling, tools and dies, with tool life, heat-treatment batch, plating batch, mechanical properties, thread inspection, salt spray testing and packaging.

A typical flow runs Wire → Heading → Thread rolling → Heat treatment → Plating → Inspection → Packing.

Heading and thread rolling dies are changed by feel, so pieces per die set and tooling cost per thousand are guesses. Hardness and proof-load results stay in the lab book instead of travelling with the lot. Parts come back from plating with only a count, without coating or bake records. Lot identity is lost where heat treatment and plating mix work orders. Catalogue stock and special orders compete for the same headers without a clear plan.

Cannot split and merge lots at furnace and plating stages while keeping parent-child records. Does not handle weight-to-count conversion across high-speed operations. Has no tooling life linked to the work orders that consumed it. Treats outside plating and heat treatment as purchase lines rather than process steps with results.

Navigator is customized to how fastener manufacturers work, on a manufacturing-first core — engineering, PPC and MRP, purchasing, production, quality, maintenance and finance — shaped by customized ERP work across varied manufacturing segments since 1997. Our no-code development tool, launched in 2020, greatly speeds up that customization, so the system follows your process instead of forcing you into a generic template. Key benefits: Process-wise production — Process-wise production and scrap entries, work-order split and merge, and traceability in Navigator - ERP. Tooling life on record — Navigator - ToolRoom tracks heading and rolling dies through usage against expected life, maintenance and repairs. Lot quality records — Incoming and in-process inspection, NCRs and supplier quality for outside processors in Navigator - QMS. Stock and specials planned together — Master production schedule, MRP and work-order priority in Navigator - PPC.

Products to look at first are Navigator - ERP, Navigator - PPC, Navigator - QMS and Navigator - ToolRoom.