How PMC Has Improved Delivery Performance — And What It Means for Our Customers

In heavy-duty threading applications, delivery performance is more than a logistics metric — it directly impacts production planning, capital deployment, and customer commitments.

As demand cycles shift and projects grow more complex, operational discipline and schedule transparency become essential. Over the past year, PMC-Colinet has implemented structured enhancements across engineering, production, and rebuild operations to improve predictability, coordination, and execution.

These improvements strengthen how we plan, communicate, and deliver — ensuring our customers can align their production schedules with greater confidence.

Strengthening Our Operational Structure

Sustainable delivery performance begins with operational discipline. Over the past year, PMC has refined the internal systems that govern how projects move from engineering through final assembly and testing.

These improvements were designed to increase coordination, reduce variability, and improve schedule reliability across both new machine builds and rebuild programs.

Improved Production Planning Processes

We introduced enhanced scheduling protocols that align engineering release dates, component machining, assembly, and final testing under a unified timeline. This ensures that machine builds and rebuilds are sequenced realistically — reducing downstream bottlenecks and idle time between phases.

Rather than managing these functions in isolation, project timelines are now developed with cross-department visibility from the outset. This allows potential capacity constraints or material risks to be identified earlier — before they affect downstream delivery.

Clear Project Ownership and Accountability

Each project now follows a defined project-management structure with assigned responsibility for schedule coordination, internal checkpoints, and customer updates. This reduces ambiguity and ensures that milestones are actively monitored — not simply recorded.

Milestone reviews are conducted at defined intervals, enabling proactive adjustments when necessary.

Strengthened Engineering-to-Assembly Coordination

PMC refined documentation standards and release controls to improve the transition between engineering and assembly. Design updates and technical revisions are now managed within a more controlled workflow, reducing the likelihood of late-stage adjustments that can disrupt production schedules.

This structured handoff supports smoother execution and more consistent build timelines.

Enhanced Cross-Functional Visibility

Internal reporting and coordination between production, service, sales, and leadership teams have been strengthened to provide shared visibility into:

• Component readiness
• Machining progress
• Assembly status
• Testing schedules
• Shipment preparation

By improving transparency internally, PMC is able to respond more quickly to evolving project dynamics and maintain stronger alignment with customer delivery expectations.

Expanding Capabilities Through the Belgium Center of Excellence

Operational reliability is supported not only by process improvements, but by physical infrastructure and technical depth.

Over the past year, PMC has continued to develop and strengthen its Belgium center of excellence — a facility designed to enhance assembly capacity, rebuild efficiency, and technical collaboration across the organization.

The Belgium facility now supports:

• Complete machine assembly operations
• Dedicated rebuild and refurbishment programs
• Retrofit and modernization projects
• Precision machining capability
• Integrated engineering support aligned with production and rebuild workflows

This expansion provides greater flexibility in how projects are scheduled and executed. By distributing assembly and rebuild capabilities more strategically, PMC has improved resource allocation and reduced production bottlenecks during peak demand cycles.

The Belgium location also reinforces quality consistency. Standardized assembly procedures, defined inspection checkpoints, and controlled workflow sequencing contribute to more predictable timelines and repeatable execution.

For customers, this translates to:

• Increased production capacity
• Improved scheduling coordination
• Enhanced technical support for complex rebuilds
• Greater stability in long-term OEM partnership

The continued investment in Belgium reflects PMC’s commitment to strengthening its operational foundation and supporting the installed base with durable, long-term capability.

Leveraging U.S. Rebuild Capability Through Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic

To further strengthen rebuild performance and reduce turnaround time for North American customers, PMC has aligned its rebuild operations with Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic (ATM) in the United States.

This integration expands geographic execution capacity and enhances schedule flexibility for eligible projects, reducing logistical complexity and improving turnaround coordination.

Key rebuild improvements include:

• U.S.-based rebuild execution for qualifying North American machines
• Reduced international shipping time and logistical exposure
• Expanded rebuild capacity across multiple facilities
• Coordinated engineering standards between PMC and ATM
• Standardized inspection and quality validation processes
• Improved parts planning and procurement sequencing

These enhancements support more predictable rebuild timelines while maintaining OEM-level performance and durability standards across the installed base.

Enhancing Lead-Time Transparency and Communication

Operational performance is strengthened not only by execution — but by visibility.

PMC has refined how project timelines are defined, communicated, and monitored to ensure customers have clear insight into delivery expectations from order confirmation through final shipment.

Delivery performance today is supported by structured communication protocols that provide defined milestones and consistent project visibility.

Key improvements include:

• Clearly defined delivery timelines at project initiation
• Structured milestone checkpoints throughout production and rebuild phases
• Cross-functional coordination between engineering, production, and sales teams
• Proactive communication when schedule adjustments are required
• Improved alignment between internal project tracking and customer-facing updates

These enhancements allow customers to integrate PMC delivery schedules more confidently into their own production planning cycles.

Our objective is straightforward: provide realistic timelines, maintain visibility throughout execution, and support planning stability for our customers.

Supporting the Installed Base with Greater Discipline

PMC machines are engineered for long service life. Many units in operation today have been running reliably for 20–30 years or more.

Sustaining that performance requires structured lifecycle planning, disciplined evaluation, and timely modernization.

Over the past year, PMC has aligned its operational improvements to better support the installed base through clearer rebuild planning, modernization pathways, and defined service coordination.

This includes:

• Structured rebuild evaluations to support long-term performance planning
• Standardized modernization and retrofit pathways
• Coordinated service scheduling aligned with production cycles
• Improved parts forecasting for aging machine platforms
• Defined inspection checkpoints to identify wear and performance risks early

Rather than viewing rebuilds and upgrades as reactive events, PMC supports a proactive lifecycle strategy designed to extend machine performance while protecting production continuity.

For machine owners, this disciplined approach supports:

• Extended asset life
• Reduced unplanned downtime
• Improved production predictability
• Stronger ROI from long-term equipment investment

PMC remains committed to supporting its installed base with the same level of technical rigor applied to new machine production.

What This Means for Our Customers

The operational enhancements implemented over the past year are designed to deliver measurable, practical outcomes:

• More predictable new machine delivery schedules
• Reduced rebuild turnaround times
• Stronger lifecycle support for aging equipment
• Greater production planning confidence
• Improved alignment between engineering, assembly, and service

PMC machines are engineered for long-term durability. Our operational systems are aligned with that same standard — structured, disciplined, and performance-driven.

Consistency builds confidence. And confidence supports long-term partnerships.

Plan with Confidence

Whether you are planning a new machine investment, evaluating a rebuild, or considering modernization options for your installed equipment, PMC is positioned to support your timeline with greater transparency and coordination.

To:

• Request a rebuild evaluation
• Discuss modernization pathways
• Schedule a service inspection
• Review current machine delivery timelines

Contact the PMC team to begin the conversation.