K&S Tool, Die & Manufacturing, Inc. is a ISO 9001:2008 company
Thomas C. Klusken founded K&S Tool, Die & Manufacturing, Inc. in 1974. Today around 100 employees and three buildings make up K&S Tool, Die & Manufacturing, Inc.
The Tooling Division was the foundation that K&S was built upon. Growth in the industry provided the opportunity to expand the business with metal stamping, laser/fabrication with AWS certified welding, and production machining capabilities. We look forward to the opportunity of providing our value added services to your company!
When you call K&S, you will be greeted by a receptionist who will direct you to the internal resource best suited for your request. At K&S we provide dedicated Customer Support Team made up of Customer Service Personnel, Project Leaders, & Estimators.
History
- 1974 - Thomas C Klusken founded K&S Tool, Die & Manufacturing, Inc. The operations started in the back of a small building in Oconomowoc with three employees.
- 1975 - K&S purchased a NC wire EDM. A progressive move for a Tool & Die shop and one of the first few companies to due so.
- 1979 - K&S Built a 5,000 sq. ft. building in Ixonia, the company grew to 8-10 employees and more room was needed.
- 1980 - Immediately K&S realized more space was needed due to continuing growth, 5,800 sq. ft. was added to this new building.
- 1984 - A second addition of 1,800 sq. ft. was added for offices and an expanded design department.
- 1986 - Another 11,000 sq. ft. was added to the building for a large bed 450 ton try-out press, additional tool building space, along with the installation of a 10 ton bridge crane.
- 1988 - K&S updated technology with the installation of a CAD/CAM seat with a DNC link to the shop CNC machines.
- 1990 - A new 20,000 sq. ft. building was built for expanded growth, which was the start or our stamping operations.
- 1992 - The design department was expanded with the purchase of three Unix CAD seats with 3D and new CAM software.
- 1994 - K&S built a 6,000 sq. ft. building to support one of our customers and expand our diversity into making service parts and weld/fabricated assemblies for a large OEM.
- 1996 - The fourth of 4,700 sq. ft. was added to the building for adding Laser processing. K&S purchased a Brown & Sharpe CMM to expand our inspection capabilities.
- 1997 - Purchased a brake press to expand fabrication capabilities.
- 2000 - K&S built a new 68,000 sq. ft. facility which doubled our tooling and laser departments. More equipment was needed to meet the continuous growth, a Large OKK MXC 1260 was purchased to allow for larger projects. A Mitubishi laser and a Waterjet was added for the expanding laser department.
- 2001 - An 800 ton press was purchased for growth in the stamping department and for large tool try-out capabilities.
- 2002 - A 400 ton press was purchased to increase production capabilities. Updates to the design department software included Unigraphics and Die Simulation capabilities as additional design and planning tools.
- 2003 - Obtained ISO 9001:2000 certification. Due to rapid growth in our stamping department 21,000 sq. ft. was added to the stamping building. A high speed CNC machining center was purchased to decrease lead times of complex 3D tooling.
- 2004 - A 250 ton 5-axis press brake was purchased to increase accuracy and capacity.
- 2006 - Added robotic weld cell for precision production welding.
- 2007 - Created two dedicated product line weld cells, and also added a second robotic welder. Set up die protection / sensing lab.
- 2008 - Purchased Faro Mobile CMM for greater inspection flexibility. 12,000-square-foot addition to Laser/Fabrication department to house new Mitsubishi 4000 watt laser with load/unload system.
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