Relief for Contractor Pain Points
Proven Swagelok Remedies for Contractor Pain Points
A contractor’s profitability is primarily dependent on meeting or exceeding three key objectives per project: staying on-plan, on-time, and on-budget. Swagelok Pittsburgh | Tri-State Area, your local Swagelok high-performance resource since 1965, offers a wide and potent mix of premier products, value-added services, and proven operational advantages to help ensure that you realize your performance and productivity goals.
Materials/Inventory Management
Let us store and stage your valuable Swagelok componentry, and deliver it precisely when you need it at the jobsite. That means you avoid logistical concerns and potential shrinkage, while slashing overall inventory-related costs. Plus, we’re nearby – shelves fully stocked with the premier fluid-handling products (3,000 SKUs – at all times!) that have delivered you optimum results, especially in the most challenging applications. Our convenient location also means emergency deliveries are never a problem!
We’ll perform a routine Vendor-Managed Inventory as well, all part of our ongoing effort to help reduce the pain of running out of critical Swagelok components at a crucial project juncture.
Cost/Risk Management
Swagelok now offers 12 different Standardized Instrumentation Mounting Kits that, depending on the best configuration for your job, can be pre-assembled, tested, wrapped, and delivered to your workplace for quick, simple installation. Our plug-and-play packages – with all tags, install instructions, and documentation included – dramatically improve worker safety, while significantly reducing handling errors, excess scrap, and the need for additional manpower.
Labor Management
We can now bring our renowned tube-bending expertise right to your project area. Our highly skilled, Swagelok-trained-and-certified technicians can perform masterful bending up to 2” in diameter, no matter how difficult your application, with all of their work fully warrantied by Swagelok Company.
In addition, we offer a wide array of on-site Swagelok Technical Training courses, including: Fitting Installation Essentials, Fitting Inspection Essentials, Tube Bending Essentials, Fitting Installation & Tube Bending Essentials (best deal!), Hose Essentials, Valve Essentials, and Advanced Tube Bending. Each graduate receives a genuine Swagelok Certificate of Completion per class title, plus Continuing Education Credits. We supply all training materials. All instruction is provided by Mike Gagel, a 20-year Swagelok factory veteran who’s authored most of the Swagelok training content used globally. Let us come to you to help you virtually eliminate worker/asset harm, while driving up your overall project efficiency and productivity.
Asset Management
For your short-term or infrequent work that requires equipment you currently do not own, why buy new when you can simply lease premium-quality Swagelok orbital welders (with welder, weld head, fixture block, collets, calipers, and power supply), multi-head hydraulic swaging units, and/or manual benchtop tube benders from us? We rent by the day, week, month, or even for the length of your entire project.
Results Management
Trust our proven engineering and application expertise for on-site consultations that will ensure you always have the best Swagelok product fit for even the most severe aspects of your construction work. Our Account Managers team with our Application Engineer will help deliver optimal componentry and value-added service recommendations to slash your project costs and untimely delays.
Plus, we’re always fine-tuning our operational capabilities to better serve you. In particular, we claim a 99% shipping accuracy making more than 12,000 shipments each year. We also annually invest 1,200 hours of training in our Pittsburgh-based associates. We’ll never stop exploring new and even better ways to become or remain your fluid-system supplier of choice!
For more information about our Contractor-specific Swagelok capabilities, contact us today.