Engineering

Our aim is to maximize quality, eliminate rejects and produce parts efficiently, which, in turn, keeps your costs down.  Our engineers will select the processes that your part will undergo to meet specs, and importantly, they will also select in what sequence they’ll be applied.

To understand the importance of  sequencing, some manufacturing steps must be done in the flat before any press brake forming and bending, for example.  Still other processes might undo or even just diminish the effects of preceding production steps if ordered incorrectly, thus requiring they be completed first to avoid waste or potential defects.

Our 40+ years’ experience in this business and extensive group of employees with tenures nearly as long means Service Metal has the know-how to make your parts efficiently, deliver them on time, and produce them with outstanding quality.  We invite you to discover how SMF sets itself apart by exploring our extraordinary engineering capabilities.

Beyond Everyday Production Engineering

Prototyping: Our nimble, fast manufacturing capabilities are perfectly suited for your rapid prototyping needs.

Design For Manufacturability (DFM): Seeking efficient production methods that ultimately reduce your costs is bedrock to SMF’s founding and remains essential to our DNA to this day.  This includes efficiencies gained through design simplification that streamline production.  We understand that most design characteristics simply will not lend themselves to any sort of modification.  You set the agenda and we follow.  However, if DFM fits in any way with your plans, we’ll gladly demonstrate how Service Metal has saved customers tens of millions of dollars on their metal work via our critical engineering and design expertise as relates to sheet metal production.

Reverse Engineering: It’s not uncommon for customers to engage us even when they lack drawings for their metalwork.  We have reverse-engineered thousands of parts over the years and stand ready to serve you when such occasions arise in your business.  Give us a call to discuss how the absence of blueprints need not limit, in any way, your access to quality, cost-effective metalwork.

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State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Equipment for Metal Fab Engineering

Engineering service is only as reliable as the equipment used to perform each service. Because of this, Service Metal Fabricators invests in cutting-edge technology for all engineering processes.

Complete Final Inspection Department for Metal Fab Engineering

In addition to general engineering services, Service Metal Fabricators ensures that every project is completed with excellence by completing a complete intermediate and final inspections. These thorough examinations drive our low return rates, as they allow our team to catch any defects or flaws early on–at machine set-up–before they are shipped, and and even before they undergo an additional production process.

Our Metal Fab Engineering Team Accepts All Types Of File Formats

The dynamic world of manufacturing design and engineering demands flexibility. Service Metal Fabricators commits to ease-of-doing-business for our customers.  We have worked with any format file type you will encounter in your projects.  This spans the universe of  SolidWorks, AutoCad, Pro/Engineer, Alibre Design and all related derivative file formats.  Furthermore, we work with specialized programs to ensure CorelDraw, Adobe, Photoshop, and Postscript Files can be incorporated into the engineering process as well.

Engineering File Types:

• .stp
• .pdf
• .dxf
• .iges
• .dwg

Silk Screening

In addition to general engineering files, Service Metal Fabricators also accepts artwork for silk screening. Notably, our company is able to generate Silk Screens in-house, thus eliminating screen procurement as a potential bottleneck to your successful project or monthly and annual production goals.  SMF differentiates itself from other businesses by offering a “one-stop shop” approach to engineering services along with our comprehensive manufacturing solutions.

Design and Engineering Assistance for Metal Fab Projects

While our company is equipped to handle all engineering processes on our own, Service Metal Fabricators is also accustomed to working alongside our customers using a more collaborative approach.

In some cases, our clients prefer to be more involved during the design and engineering process, which requires an intentional communication approach from our team. As a result, SMF has become adept at navigating collaborative projects, often meeting customers at their own facilities to discuss design and engineering strategies. Whether you require this one-on-one approach to engineering, or prefer our standard easy-to-use engineering services defined simply by 1) your specs, 2) our quote and 3) your directed quantities and due dates, SMF provides the right solution for you while maximizing efficiency and ease of use to you, our customer.