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Why Us

Global Footprint

Headquartered in USA with operations in Mexico & China. Adaptable to changing markets, logistical demands, and customer needs.

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Full Service Supplier

Custom engineered solutions with support and expertise every step along the way, from early product conception to prototyping, testing, delivery, and maintenance.

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Cutting Edge Technology

Advanced manufacturing methods include proprietary cold-forging process and precision CNC assembly in state-of-the-art production facilities. Pockets of automation and full automation.

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Mistake-Proof Processes

Focused and engineered quality assurance with automated mistake-proofing and real-time metrics driven by PFMEA. Emphasis on repeatability & reproducibility.

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Supply Chain Management

Over 13 years of continuous experience in Supply Chain Management and global logistics management with supply bases in Asia and beyond. Knowledgable and adaptable to current changes and challenges.

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Competitive Global Pricing

Delivering competitive cost-effective solutions for global customers and North American on-shoring projects with a reliable low-cost supply base while maintaining quality standards, regardless of manufacturing location. 

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Experienced and innovative contract manufacturing and assembly of precision machined parts for tailored engineering solutions.

Fortis is your best partner.

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Location

980 Woodridge Blvd Lancaster, PA 17601 USA

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Global Footprint

Fortis Group has over 50,000 square meters of manufacturing space in North America and Asia with the global enterprise head office in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and a regional head office in Suzhou, China.

The three factories in Asia are contract manufacturers of precision machined components, cold forgings, and assemblies. Our customers are American, European, and Japanese OEMs engaged in industrial tools and automotive products. Components manufactured and assembled by Fortis Group are typically exported to OEM factories around the globe including some quantities shipped to local OEM factories making products for export.

In April 2021, we opened a new factory in Monterrey, Mexico serving current global customers looking to move manufacturing to North America. This factory is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortis Group managed by an experienced local General Manager who previously collaborated with our leadership on a successful large-scale factory operation in Juarez, Mexico. The Monterrey factory is currently producing precision-machined components and sub-assemblies for five (5) OEM product assembly factories in North America.

Fortis Group adopts a flexible and adaptable layout in all factories in response to customer needs for volume changes, scheduling, and product life cycle.

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Full Service Supplier

As a full-service supplier-partner of several large OEMs, Fortis Group has received multiple new product introduction awards from our partners stemming from our early and extensive participation in new product development cycles by our engineering team.

We’ll work with you to provide custom-engineered solutions with:

  • New product design, feasibility, and development
  • Mistake-proofed & computerized assembly cell design and build
  • Prototype and proof-of-concept
  • Fixture design and build
  • Leak test design and build
  • Impactor tool gearbox durability test design and build

 

Our roles and responsibilities as a full-service supplier are governed by several existing multi-year MSAs (Manufacturing Supply Agreement) to include scheduling, logistics, on-time delivery, inventory management, service, product life-cycle support, and warranty.

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Cutting Edge Technology

We use advanced manufacturing methods to supplement in-house capabilities and proprietary processes — including a digital factory and several lights-out machining work cells. Our proprietary cold forge process capability has been in operation for 13 years.

Fortis uses LEAN tools and processes to complement advancements in hardware technology. 

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Mistake-Proof Processes

Since 1995, Fortis Group founder and CEO Oddie Leopando (previously of Maxima Technologies) has been passionately committed to fostering a culture of manufacturing excellence with emphasis on LEAN tools, six sigma, pockets of automation, and mistake-proofing.

Through continuous iteration, our manufacturing engineers are dedicated to our core mission of developing and implementing improvements for each and every new project in order to deliver superior quality at competitive cost to our customers.

Some mistake-proofing tools we use:

  • Data-gathering optical instruments for machine optimization
  • Pick-to-light sensors
  • Smart fixtures
  • Software ??
  • In-process inspection with shutdown capability
  • Vibratory bowl feeders
  • Full automation
  • Pockets of automation (POA)
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Supply Chain Management

Our full-time global supplier development team focuses on helping potential suppliers implement manufacturing and quality systems. The SCM team conducts periodic reviews of our current supply base in order to identify needs and contingencies, and to expand supplier capabilities to support our business development strategy. The SCM team conducts on-site evaluation and provides expertise to correct identified weaknesses. 

Driven by the trend towards onshoring of manufacturing activities to North America, Fortis Group is focused on developing dependable suppliers in Mexico to complement our established supply base in Asia. We provide full service supplier management for customers who plan to reduce its number of suppliers.

Our SCM team is experienced in logistics, including:

  • Warehousing
  • Import/Export
  • Shipping & transportation
  • Customs
  • Insurance
  • IMMEX
  • VAT
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Competitive Global Pricing

Our lean management culture and reliable low-cost supply base enables us to provide global customers with competitive cost-effective solutions without compromising on quality, regardless of where products are manufactured. Fortis has demonstrated similar or very competitive landed pricing on several North American onshoring projects, rivaling products manufactured in Asia.

We are currently developing a material supply base and outsourced services in Mexico to supplement or replace existing Asian sources to further support our North America onshoring projects.

With an extensive network and decades of experience in supply chain management, we are dedicated to optimizing costs while upholding superior standards, using a continuous improvement culture grounded in a process-oriented enterprise philosophy.

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