Fastener and Assembly Aid Solutions That Help Parts Arrive Ready for Final Assembly
Forest City Technologies helps OEMs, fastener suppliers, and manufacturing teams improve assembly efficiency with fastener retention and assembly aid technologies that keep hardware positioned on the component until final installation. These solutions can reduce loose hardware, eliminate fastener feeding at final assembly, simplify handling, and support more consistent production flow.
In many high-volume manufacturing environments, fastening efficiency depends on more than the fastener itself. Production teams need hardware to stay with the part through shipping, handling, sequencing, and final assembly. When fasteners are loose, misplaced, or fed separately at the final line, the result can be added inventory, downtime, extra handling, and unnecessary process complexity.
Forest City Technologies assembly aid solutions are designed to help customers move fastener handling upstream and deliver modules, castings, or components that arrive ready to place and tighten. By combining engineered retention technologies with value-added assembly services, Forest City Technologies can help simplify production while improving consistency across the assembly process.
Why Assembly Aids Matter
- Help retain threaded fasteners on components before final tightening.
- Reduce or eliminate fastener feeding from the final assembly line.
- Support improved productivity by moving hardware handling upstream.
- Help reduce loose hardware, missing fasteners, and handling variation.
- Support module shipment and sequencing where fasteners must remain positioned.
- Reduce downtime and maintenance tied to automated fastener feeding systems.
Assembly Aid Solutions Forest City Technologies Can Support
Axi-Rad Fastener Retention Device
A thermoplastic retainer used to capture threaded fasteners in position on component parts until final fastening operations are performed later in the assembly sequence. Axi-Rad can be supplied in bulk or assembled onto the customer’s bolt by Forest City Technologies.
Additional Fastener Assembly Aid Technologies
Forest City Technologies assembly aid or fastener retention technologies such as TechTite, PURStay, shrink wrap, bonding, or other assembly-support solutions where appropriate within the broader fastener performance architecture.
Common Application Areas
- Automotive powertrain assemblies
- Body assemblies and vehicle modules
- Oil pans and valve covers
- Alternators, generators, and water pumps
- Electronic devices and housings
- Aerospace, heavy truck, industrial equipment, and consumer product applications
Why Forest City Technologies
Forest City Technologies supports assembly aid applications with both product knowledge and production capability. That means customers can source a fastener retention technology and, where needed, have Forest City Technologies assemble the device onto the bolt and ship a more complete, ready-to-use part. This helps customers reduce downstream handling, improve production flow, and align the solution to the real demands of the component, fastener, shipment method, and final assembly process.
