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Within this context, how can you move away from the constraints of nitrogen and oxygen supply management? How can you reduce the operating costs of cutting machines by reducing the cost of gas? How can you limit the environmental impact of gas supply?
Autumn is bringing in the new. Bystronic offers its customers solutions that make them even more competitive: From stand-alone laser cutting systems or pressbrakes, through automation solutions, all the way to a complete Smart Factory, “World Class Manufacturing” for every sheet metal processing enterprise.
Welding is the most used and best known way to assemble parts. Welding is also validated and certified for the assembly of large equipment undergoing vibratory and physical constraints.
Sheet metal assemblies can include different shaped tubes and profiles: round, rectangular, square, “L” or “U” shaped, flat or special profiles/tubes. A lot of industries therefore use tubes and profiles, such as furniture, transport, building, agriculture, medical, energy, etc.
Discover how to subcontract the production of parts in the building industry: railings, façades, cladding, decorative sheet metal work, etc. Focusing on 2 important aspects: the cutting and straightening of cladding and decorative parts for the construction industry.
Tube laser cutting is an essential technology for the industrial processing and cutting of tubes and profiles. A tube laser cutting machine provides a wide range of possibilities, particularly with regards to interior openings, which are often impossible to achieve with more conventional production methods (sawing, milling, drilling, etc.).
Discover several solutions for buying sheet metal or mechanical welding parts when you are on a tight budget and deadline. Metal-interface presents an efficient methodology, through real-life examples!
How do you subcontract complete products with sheet metal parts or casings? Technical sheet metal subcontractors offer a wide range of services, such as electrical wiring, electronic component integration, installation, and maintenance services, etc.
This dossier aims to provide purchasers of sheet metal and tube parts or assemblies with answers and food for thought on the issues they may encounter when subcontracting. With this in mind, Metal-Interface conducted a large survey* with a panel of 362 market-representative prime manufacturers. These interviews highlighted certain focus points.
Broadly speaking, this buyer survey reveals three major challenges:
issues relating to technical aspects, when the requirement is either complex or linked to a particular sector of activity,
difficulties in maintaining the guarantee of a good quality product when the project involves strong constraints on subcontracting costs, or even a "target price" to be achieved,
management of projects with short manufacturing times and fluctuating launch quantities.
With these concerns in mind, we then contacted and interviewed about a hundred subcontractors who shared advice, based on their experience, for buyers of sheet metal work parts or assemblies.
Whether in the banking, transport, medical, aeronautics or railway industry, certain products require a general and integrated approach to manufacture products such as vending machines, cash dispensers, toll booths, etc.
Some subcontractors have developed a wide range of skills beyond sheet metal working alone, in order to take on these complete industrial projects, from the raw materials to installation, while taking care of cabling, the assembly of electrical/electronic components, on-site installation, etc.
This article outlines the answers to the following questions:
How to analyse and study a project?
What skills and means of production are required?
How to purchase and ensure the supply of components?
How to evaluate subcontractors?
Pricing and deadlines are very important aspects to take into account when choosing a subcontractor. This article suggests several possibilities, with concrete examples to provide buyers with a clear vision of the methodology and technical solutions that can be implemented!
A wide variety of parts are produced for the construction and building industry, often in small quantities. Depending on the part’s function, its aesthetics may be very important and require specific manufacturing equipment.
This article focuses on the different technologies used, in particular for cutting and flattening parts.
Tube processing is a very specific job that requires skills, experience and machinery that the subcontractor does not always have.
We have therefore chosen to focus on tube cutting and bending in this article.
Micro sheet metal work involves parts that are roughly a tenth of a millimetre thick, made out of various materials, including steel, stainless steel, copper, brass, CuBe 2, nickel silver, supra, etc. These parts are often quite technical, for high-tech industries, such as electronics, aeronautics, armament, medical, etc.
This article explores this little-known cutting technology, based on a chemical process.
* Panel of 362 buyers surveyed between 7th September 2020 and 11th September 2020.
