By integrating assembly directly with our core furnace brazing and protective atmosphere annealing services, we deliver shorter production cycle times, unified logistics, and rigorous quality control all under one roof.
Franklin also provides turnkey on-site contract assembly, subassembly manufacturing, and industrial project management services designed to streamline your supply chain and reduce overall costs.
We manufacture, braze, and assemble build-to-print components across the automotive, aerospace, heavy equipment, and fluid power industries. Our production capabilities include:
Automotive fuel filler tubes and industrial fuel filters.
Thermal management system and custom oil cooler assemblies.
Heavy-duty hydraulic brake lines, power steering components, and commercial vehicle fluid routing lines.
Recreational vehicle (RV) water transfer lines, internal combustion engine water transfer lines, and industrial equipment air exhaust components.
Hardware installation and metal bracket assembly.
Services and multi-component mechanical assembly.
High-precision spot welding, projection welding, tab welding, and welded metal assemblies.
Parts kitting and packaging, assembly packaging services, and specialized service parts kitting.
Our facility works seamlessly as a highly responsive extension of your own line. Whether you need ongoing OEM tier-supplier volume support, emergency overflow manufacturing capacity, or qualified second-source production security, our production systems adapt to your shifting schedules.
Outsourcing your high-volume subassemblies to our experienced team minimizes your in-house inventory footprint, helps mitigate safety stock holding costs, frees up critical internal manufacturing floor space and labor for essential core competency tasks.
Consolidating component fabrication, brazing, and final assembly at a single US manufacturing facility eliminates intermediate transit steps, cuts handling complexities, and accelerates your overall speed-to-market.
Every step of our production pipeline uses data-driven Statistical Process Control (SPC). This ensures flawless repeatability, structural integrity, and tight tolerance compliance for critical safety components like brake systems and fluid lines.
My organization, Fluid Handling Technology, requires the outside processing services of a Contract Brazing provider as part of our core product focus. Between 2006 and 2015, FHT had developed working relationships with three contract brazing organizations. Each one was our single source for this process at the time.
Outsourcing contract assembly lowers internal equipment capital expenses, reduces labor overhead, and optimizes complex supply chain logistics. By utilizing an integrated contract manufacturer like Franklin Brazing, companies reduce production cycle times and guarantee rigorous quality standard compliance under a single unified quality system.
Yes. We specialize in high-precision, build-to-print subassembly manufacturing. Our engineering team integrates multiple custom processes—including atmosphere furnace brazing, resistance welding, fastener installation, and structural bracket mounting—to match your exact engineering specifications.
Yes. To deliver a complete turnkey solution, we offer value-added parts kitting, specialized assembly packaging services, and targeted production launch support to ensure your subassemblies arrive at your facility line-ready.
For decades, top-tier OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers have trusted our team at Franklin Brazing to deliver metal joining solutions that withstand the most demanding operational environments. Expanding that core expertise into comprehensive contract assembly and subassembly manufacturing is a natural progression of our commitment to complete quality ownership. By keeping your entire project within a single, unified production facility, we actively:
Eliminate the logistical downtime of shipping parts between separate stampers, brazers, and assemblers.
We take absolute, single-source accountability for the fabrication, brazing, and final mechanical integrity of your components.
Optimize your total cost of ownership without ever cutting corners on quality or material tolerances.
Each of these suppliers failed to meet our performance requirements. The majority of these issues were related to “on-time” delivery and lack of communication. Promise dates were not met on a regular basis resulting in constant communication initiated from our team in order to seek reliable information.
These frustrating delays caused internal shifts to our production schedules as well as missed or delayed shipments to our customers. The outcome had a negative impact on our internal and external metrics requiring more of our resources directed to “fix” problem suppliers.
Early in 2015, I was called on by the sales engineer of Franklin Brazing and Metal Treating (FBMT) subsequently leading to an on-site visit of their facilities. During this visit, I was struck with the cleanliness, organization and the use of clear visual work instructions. We discussed the performance issues and frustration we were experiencing with our current supplier. FBMT leadership shared their “on-time” metrics, and, more importantly, communicated the honesty and integrity of their organization.
During Q1 of 2015, we shifted our brazing requirements to Franklin Brazing and Metal Treating. Prior to our first shipment, FBMT worked with our materials and purchasing group to standardize dunnage, lot sizes and labeling conventions in order to streamline the process. We worked together on order sizes and frequencies to optimize turnaround time. FBMT immediately achieved 100% “on-time” shipments to FHT compared to 78.7% with our previous supplier. This performance has been consistent to the point that we no longer gather metrics on our outside brazing.
As a direct result of FBMT performance, FHT was able to reduce lead-times of our products and improve our “on-time” delivery metrics by 4% surpassing our overall goal for 2015. Our largest customer, Daimler Trucks North America, awarded FHT their Masters of Quality Award for 2015 and 2017. The honor of this award is presented to a very small percentage of suppliers. As a result of these achievements, we were awarded a contract for $2.5M beginning in 2017 and an additional $1.5M mid-2018 resulting in an overall sales growth of 52%.
FBMT continues to offer design and process consultation as we pursue new business. Their focus is on helping us gain profitable business and achieve our goals so that we succeed together. I continue to recommend Franklin Brazing and Metal Treating to my peers and associates due to the tremendous success we have achieved working together.