tier 1 supplier , also: tier-one supplier

That is why the springs are usually bought off-the-shelf from a tier 1 supplier rather than produced in house.

In turn, the biggest parts companies, known as Tier 1 suppliers, are buying fewer components from small parts makers.

Its success can also be attributed to its supply of large quantities of production parts to OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.

Aeristech is currently in discussion with a number of major vehicle manufacturers and tier 1 suppliers to develop an HTT equipped engine for mass manufacture.

They have delivered over 900 person-years of projects to various OEM's and Tier 1 suppliers across a wide range of industry verticals viz.

Each of the Expert Groups is led by an Automotive OEM and supported by a Tier 1 supplier.

Headquartered near Detroit in Warren, Michigan, the Tier 1 supplier has manufacturing operations across North America, Europe and Asia.

2005- Bellwether Services expanded solutions to include Lean Supply Chain and Tier 1 Supplier Business Process Improvement

Most of MIG customers are Tier 1 suppliers to auto makers, Johnson Controls, Lear Corporation and Magna International.

It was started to provide contract manufacturing and sub-assembly services to Tier 1 suppliers in the automotive industry and to offer jobs for the village of West Salem and surrounding area.

Today, a supplier without a valid certificate has very little chance to serve a Tier 1 supplier and certainly no chance to serve a car manufacturer (OEM) with standard parts.

Jürgen Wölfle (Conti Temic): Testing Concepts and Test Environments of a Tier 1 Supplier, Vector Congress, Stuttgart, 2010

Tier 1 suppliers are typically required to follow APQP procedures and techniques and are also typically required to be audited and registered to ISO/TS 16949.

Tier 1 suppliers provide full design and engineering support, Tier 2 suppliers manufacturer components to blueprint specifications, and Tier 3 suppliers provide raw materials, material fabrication and discrete parts.

(II) Automotive products : Guardian serves the automotive market with Automotive Glass and SRG Global,a Guardian company and Tier 1 supplier of grilles and exterior/interior trim.

A common occurrence within associations is that they are extended vertically within the supplier community - for example - by the mid 1990s 79% of Toyota's tier 1 suppliers had created their own associations extending beyond Toyota's existing.

Arvin Meritor, a Tier 1 supplier of automotive technology, at one time, was experimenting with a plasma reformer technology which would use hydrogen produced from the fuel to enhance engine combustion efficiency and reduce emissions of NO.

She is also Chairman and CEO of MD Helicopters, Inc., a manufacturer of commercial and military helicopters, and the acting CEO of Dura Automotive Systems, a Tier 1 supplier to automotive and transportation industry OEMs.