In 2002 and 2003, the Ford Van Dyke Transmission Plant recieved numerous customer complaints of corrosion on converter cover/clutch preforms sent by Ford's Van Dyke Plant. During this time, a competitor's VCI was used as a bin-liner to ship parts from the Van Dyke Plant to it's customers. The "cost" of these complaints and the de-rusting efforts to resolve them exceeded, on average, $125,000 per year, not including transportation, re-work, administrative cost or cost incurred by their customers in handling and managing returns. Obviously, the method was not working.

ARMOR and their distributor, a national industrial packaging corporation, met with key plant personnel to gather information about the problem and identify the supply chain process. They assessed operations within the plant, provided a full written recap of observations, and conducted both a controlled accelerated corrosion humidity test and an actual field test shipment to determine the root cause of corrosion.

Once the root problem was identified, ARMOR made recommendations on specific process changes within the Ford plant as well as the indentification of ARMOR WRAP® and ARMOR POLY® products that would solve the problem. Since the implementation of the ARMOR solution, corrosion complaints have virtually been eliminated. Net savings for the Ford Van Dyke Plant have totaled well over $100,000 per year.