Reshaping OSG: Announcing New Brand Statement and Tagline

As the leader of the global cutting tool market, we needed a stronger global identity to match. We’re proud to announce our new brand statement and tagline that defines our customer-focused approach.

The power of OSG lies in our assured innovative technological know-how for producing high quality and high performance products; our exceptional services to respond to situations diligently; and our out-of-the-box thinking to provide total solutions that anticipate our customers’ needs. As a comprehensive cutting tool provider with operations spanning across the globe, we are committed to contribute to the advancement of the manufacturing industries by shaping our customers’ dreams into reality.

 


Our new tagline describes our commitment to provide high quality products and services that anticipate our customers’ needs on a global scale. Effective October 1st, this brand statement and tagline are now being used across all OSG Group companies and subsidiaries worldwide. 

Mike Cotton, Marketing Manager for OSG Tap & Die, is excited about the new announcement, “Having this global statement will help unify OSG in our core values as a business.”

As a leading manufacturer of taps, end mills, drills, and dies, we strive to provide greater value to our clients and society as a whole. By focusing our global identity, we hope to go beyond crafting tools to helping customers realize their goals, always providing premium quality along the way. With our global reach, there’s no limit to what we can achieve as we move forward into the future.


On the Job with: Sherri Tiani




Featured Employee: Sherri Tiani

Title: Corporate Controller

Tenure with OSG: 24 years

 

Citing her kids, family and friends as her passion, Sherri Tiani strives to keep her life balanced by prioritizing and spending time wisely between work and home. Just recently, Sherri spent time apple picking with her kids to enjoy the fall season, recognizing it as a great way to have fun no matter what your age.

 

With almost 25 years at OSG under her belt, Sherri continues to want to learn and grow and be the best at what she does, remaining open to change to make things better for the future. When life gets busy, she looks to her hero, her mom, for inspiration.

 

“She’s 73 years old and has a busier life than I do. She is strong, smart, caring and always wanting to lend a helping hand. I don’t know where she finds the energy to keep up, but I hope to have the same energy when I’m her age.” If all else fails though, Sherri admits, “a good trip to the spa helps.”



An Industry Solution for Difficult-to-Machine Materials
Mike Harris, District Manager


In manufacturing, components that contribute to success often include quality, precision and fast production at minimum cost. This equation sounds simple, but can be difficult to achieve for some machine shops. In the medical industry, manufacturers often handle difficult-to-machine materials such as titanium and stainless steel. Tooling costs could skyrocket if the appropriate tool isn’t selected for ?the application.

Recently, I received a call from a national distributor that has an integrated supply contract with a large OEM medical account ?in Warsaw, Indiana. This customer is one of the world’s leading designers, manufacturers and suppliers of orthopedic implants. They offer devices and solutions for fixation and fusion, motion preservation, minimally? invasive spinal ?surgery and? biologics.

In producing the parts for one of these implants, the customer needed a better tapping solution than what they were currently using. They were specifically tapping 6-32 threads in Ti-6Al4V but were running through taps like water, getting between 20 to 50 holes per tap and using over 75 taps per month. Despite trying and testing a variety of different brands, none were successful in significantly lowering the number of holes per tap.

I sat down with them and reevaluated the process, hole size, hole quality, cutting speeds, depth of drill vs. depth of thread, tool holders, work piece holding and coolant. Everything looked good, so I knew the tap had to be the key to solving this issue and I knew just what product to recommend.

I suggested they try the EXOTAP® VC-10? TI Taps from OSG. These ultra-premium taps are made from a VC-10 Powered Metal High Speed Steel substrate, which offers longer tool life in Titanium and other hard materials. Plus the OSG V-coating provides increased hardness, lubricity and wear resistance, further prolonging tool life. I sent the customer a few sample taps and they said they would get them tested right away.


The following week I got in touch with them and they happily informed me that the tap was still running.  They ultimately went down from approximately two taps a day to two taps a week! This drastic reduction has saved them both money and down time on the shop floor.


The EXOTAP® VC-10 TI tap has proven to me that with the help of the right cutting tool, customers can reduce tool usage and drastically minimize tooling costs. When no other tap can do the job, work the VC-10 TI tap into the equation. It is the industry solution for those difficult materials and applications.



OSG Introduces New Official Company Logo

We have revised our company logo for all marketing communications. High resolution files of OSG official logo are available for download!




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