Rapid Custom Manufacturing
High Precision Sheet Metal Parts
Project Overview:Material: Stainless Steel 304 (SS 304), Thickness 3.5 mm, Brushed
Manufacturing Process: Laser Cutting & Bending, Welding
Surface Finishing: Deburring, Threading M5, Sanding
Quantity: 345 Units
Lead Time: 18 Days
Customer was from Canada and ordered those sheet metal parts for their mechanical systems. Rapid prototype prior to low volume production was made to test the manufacturing capability, particularly bending tolerance.
- Precision laser cutting the parts. The cutting speed was set properly to minimize the cut burrs that were needed to be removed manually.
- Precision bending the parts. Seamless alignment of the three bent up sides required high precision laser cutting as well as bending.
Bent parts prior to welding the two straight seams. Different angles from 0° to 90° and 180° could be bent well, bending tolerance around ± 1°.
Welded and cleaned parts. Every part was carefully cleaned by removing the laser cut and welded splatters as well as the grease residues.
Packaged parts for shipping. We always paid high attention to packaging that played a increasingly important role in global purchasing.
The seamless and flat alignment of the finished parts showed high precision and high consistency manufacturing to this sheet metal part.