Action is Upgrading Our Kitting Services!

Action Industries is excited to announce our upgraded and streamlined kitting services that make producing quality sweep, DSK and retainer kits in our Strongsville facility more efficient than ever before! Read on to learn how we’ve doubled our work capacity and perfected the art of kitting to get the products you depend on to the production finish line.

What is Kitting and What Are the Benefits of Kitting?

Kitting involves organizing, packaging, and shipping different yet interconnected items as a single "kit" to make shopping easier for the buyer. For example, instead of scouring the internet to buy the many individual pieces required to install a retainer, a retainer kit includes everything you need right down to the screws—and it’s often cheaper to buy a kit compared to buying parts individually.

Why Did Action Update Its Kitting Capabilities?

Action Industries is driven to keep garage doors going, and that means all areas of production must be streamlined for speedy production, quality inspections, and timely communication among team members to get you the best American-made products on the market. By upgrading our kitting system, we’ve doubled our capacity for order fulfillment to maximize efficiency so you can depend on us having the kits you need in stock and ready to ship.

How Does Kitting at Action Work?

Think of Action’s team like a pitstop crew on the racetrack—swooping in and tinkering with a product as it enters the kitting area and moves through each station until coming out completed. The kitting area is set up like a “U”, with product coming into one side, being punched with holes in the far back, and having the final touches done as it comes out of one of our three lines completed and ready to be wheeled off.

Action Holds No Punches

Not only does the new workflow speed up the manufacturing process, but we’ve also replaced our old punch machine with a new model that can make 4-5 sticks a minute compared to the previous 3 a minute the old machine produced. Our new machine runs on air, making it easy to fix within our warehouse in the event there is a malfunction. In that event we can minimize our down time and keep production moving.

Finish First at Action

The final leg of the “U” consists of three lines that can each put the finishing touches on a part. Line One is reserved for high-volume orders, so making 1,000 retainers can be completed without getting in the way of other jobs. Previously, two people would share a table and be working toward each other—which slowed production. Now, there is one person per table, with each table standardized to contain identical equipment that places the tools needed at our employees’ fingertips. These improvements and more all work hand-in-hand to speed up production without sacrificing quality!

Take Action on All of Your Kitting Needs!

Action Industries is committed to improving our operations for your benefit. We’re all about the JUICE— our operations team was Jacked to be part of an Uplifting initiative, and our streamlined kitting setup lays the ICE on thick with assembly line Innovation, Customer-focused quality, and an Energetic production team working together to get products out of the warehouse and into your hands! If you’re curious about kitting, check out our standard brush seal kits and slim-line brush seal kits that make installation easy!