RFQ preparation
A better RFQ starts with the right information
A focused checklist for drawings, quantities, quality documents, tooling, and delivery requirements.
Read the RFQ guideFrom K-O Products & Manufacturing Company
Resources.
Practical guides for defining a part, planning production, and communicating requirements. Start with the question in front of you, then see how connected manufacturing comes together in a real K-O assembly.
Practical guides
Make the next conversation more useful.
Production planning
Plan the path from prototype to production
Define what a prototype must prove, agree on a manufacturing route, and prepare the production handoff.
Read the production guide
Bar grinding
Specify precision-ground bar with confidence
Put diameter, tolerance, length, straightness, surface finish, and material ownership in the same specification.
Read the grinding guide
K-O case study
Five components. One working assembly.
Follow the stamping, machining, and assembly work behind one completed locking-pin unit.
Explore the locking-pin case studyCustomer story · July 2020
Responding to a production interruption.
How we coordinated a replacement stamping run after a customer’s press breakdown.
Read the production recovery story