Metal Works, Inc.’s State of the Art Automation Lines and Dedicated Quick-Turn Manufacturing Cells Deliver Quality and Price Advantages.
To prototype or not to prototype? That is the question facing mechanical design engineers at the outset of nearly every new project. While rapid prototyping can get parts in engineers’ hands in just days —allowing them to test form, fit, and function— low quantity, quick-turn sheet metal jobs come at a premium per piece price. Furthermore, what may work for a few sample parts may not necessarily be desirable for mass manufacture.
This is the main reason why most sheet metal and CNC machine shops specialize in one or the other as there are distinct expertise, machine requirements, and skill sets involved in rapid manufacturing vs. designed for manufacture, high volume production runs.
Metal Works, Inc. is a unique sheet metal crafter offering end-to-end fabrication, finishing, and hardware assembly in both small batch and production scale quantities. How do we do that?
Experience and Engineering
To begin with, we leverage decades of sheet metal fabrication experience to help customers achieve the highest production standard and quality. Design for manufacturability is our engineering team’s specialty and this helps clients seamlessly transfer from prototype to mass production of sheet metal enclosures, brackets, assemblies, and more.
Second, is the partitioning of our vast state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.
Prototype Cell
Metal Works has a dedicated production cell of machines and industrial craftsmen set-up and streamlined to produce small quantities in record time. Parts can be fabricated, finished, and delivered in as little as 1 to 3 days!
Automation and Robotics
For high-volume sheet metal projects, we harness the power of automation, using robot-loaded stations and production lines to make sheet metal fabrication faster, more cost-effective, and of uniform quality. We have robotic load and unload at our AMADA laser cutting stations, auto load and unload robots for bending stations, and even an automated line for painting and curing (the last a particular advantage as manual spray painting and finishing processes often lead to build-up in corners or irregularities in thickness/coating).
Competitive Advantage: Lower Costs, Faster Delivery, Higher Quality
Automated sheet metal fabrication reduces lead time from months to weeks and cuts costs as sheet metal parts can be run at a higher rate of speed and produced consistently and reliably. Rapid sheet manufacturing reduces the up-front cash expenditure and helps accelerate the design process and gets products to market faster.
One key difference between Metal Works, Inc. and on-line, automated prototype shops is we perform all processes in-house, including laser cutting, bending, welding, painting, screen printing, PEM, and heli-coils.
Complex design features, tight tolerances, and parts made exactly to your print are the Metals Works, Inc. guarantee. Start your project today and request a quote at info@metalworks-inc.com or visit us on the web at www.metalworks-inc.com
