The Commodore Difference

As I was walking through our assembly department a few minutes ago, I stopped to talk with Pat, who was plumbing a vacuum system on one of our thermoformers.  As we talked, he continued to work, and I observed him wrapping a threaded fitting with Teflon tape.  One would expect that after wrapping the threads he would assemble the part and move on to the next one, but he didn’t.  Pat opened up his can of thread sealing compound and coated the threads with it, right over the tape.  As he explained, either the Teflon tape or the pipe sealant, when used alone, gets us a leak-proof connection over 99% of the time.  Using the tape and the sealant, however, results in a seal that Pat has never seen leak during initial testing. 

At first glance, it might not seem like a big deal to take the extra step of applying the thread sealant, but when plumbing systems that have hundreds of fittings to be assembled, the extra steps really add up to a lot of time.  It would be an easy shortcut to eliminate this step and save some money, and odds are, our customers would never know the difference.  At Commodore, we feel that this extra time is worth the 1% improvement to our product.  Most manufacturers would be happy with 99%, but we feel that we need to strive for 100%, each and every day.  This is just one example of the difference you get with Commodore thermoformers and extruders.