New Southern Resistance Welding chooses Phoenix Contact to make their mark

New South Resistance Welding (NSRW) is a full-service metal and resistance welding specialist that supports the needs of companies involved in any stage of the welding process. Located in Birmingham, Alabama, NSRW chooses to work with Phoenix Contact for a variety of reasons, including the reduced costs they experience using Phoenix Contact laser printers for marking.

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Transcript: - Phoenix Contact's laser printer really helped us with efficiency, accuracy, neatness, and we can produce our own product on-site instead of having to wait for extended delivery times. My name is Chris Cole, New Southern Resistance Welding, and I'm a Weld Engineer. I initially came down here to help customers when they break equipment. I would go out on-site and fix equipment that was producing, but they had a problem with. NSRW is a copper supplier. The main business is supplying copper to manufacturing industry. We predominantly serve the automotive industry. Customers like Mercedes and Honda, their suppliers which are Gestamp, Kamtek, and other industries in the area, not just automotive, but also people that make steel cabinets, farm equipment, aerospace industry up in Huntsville. We supply all that kind of equipment. I think it's unique that it's a female-owned company. When it first formed 27 years ago, it was the only company in the industry that was owned by a female. So we manufacture and recondition machines. So what we'll do is we'll have a customer call in. They will have a machine that's been running for a long, long time. Some of these machines date back to the 80's and 90's. Technology back then wasn't the greatest, wasn't the most efficient. We'll strip the machine apart, change out components, and make it electrically more efficient, a more efficient weld, better quality with a better lifetime. We use a variety of Phoenix Contact blocks, fuse holders, terminal blocks. We use the QUATTRO series, either as the two terminals or the four terminals. We find the four-terminal of Phoenix Contact's very useful that we can have four wires in one terminal block, and then we'll put a joining link. So instead of a long strip of terminals, we can do something in a very narrow space so it saves space inside the panel. To identify the labels, we were using a Brady printer which was very time-consuming. We were having to print it out on a piece of tape and then cut it to size, and it didn't always look the neatest. With Phoenix Contact, we can just load the blank material in it. It prints it, and it's beautiful. It comes out so neat and it's so repeatable. We use it for printing the labels for the terminal blocks. We've also got labels to identify IP addresses, what the functionalities of the device, the specification of that machine. We were spending $1,500 or more on projects. With a laser printer, we've cut that cost down and now I can make it on-site. I don't have to wait for somebody else to do it. 25-30 minutes, and we're done with the whole thing. NSRW is very efficient. We always work with the customers as to what the customer wants. We won't charge you for updates. If you want something changed and there's nothing major, we'll just take care of it for you. We'll provide solutions for you as to what your welding needs are. If you have a problem with something, we have engineers on staff and sales staff that are experienced with making changes to your products and what you are using to make your systems far more efficient.--