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Kreisler Industries

When you’re building components for commercial and military jet engines, quality assurance is always on the front burner.  Kreisler Industries, founded in 1914, manufactures tube and manifold assemblies for aircraft engines.  Kreisler products show up in aircraft like the Boeing 787 engine and the latest F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.  A common characteristic among many of the company’s products is manual and orbital-welded joints. A build-to-print fabrication company, Kreisler focuses intensely on quality control for the obvious reason of flight safety.  Achieving its—and, of course, its customers’—stringent quality requirements is a daunting task in any circumstance.   In today’s world of designing for manufacture and implementing lean manufacturing initiatives on the shop floor, Kreisler has found an obvious and practical need to bring technology and increased quality to the operator in the manufacturing cell. According to Kreisler President Michael Stern, “We call a customer return an ‘escape,’ and no level of escapes is acceptable.  The passengers, pilot and crew are all counting on us to perform our inspection correctly in order to eliminate any risk to the safety and well being of the flying public.”  For Kreisler, “escapes” are very expensive, both in monetary terms and in customer satisfaction, and the company… read more