Sheet Metal Processing Machinery
Long-term engineering support for a sheet metal machinery manufacturer – from machine concepts and 3D CAD models to complete production-ready documentation.
Since 2019, Fabrit has been providing long-term engineering support to a manufacturer of sheet metal processing machinery. We support the development of new machine designs as well as the modernisation and optimisation of existing equipment within the customer’s product portfolio.
Fabrit acts as an external extension of the customer’s mechanical engineering team, delivering complete, production-ready machine designs that are manufactured in-house by the customer.
Challenge
Growing demand for new products and continuous development of the existing machine range required additional engineering capacity. Expanding the internal mechanical design department permanently was not the most flexible solution.
The customer needed an experienced engineering partner capable of taking responsibility for complete design packages and supporting both new machine development and the improvement of existing products.
Implemented solution
- Development of concepts for new sheet metal processing machines.
- Complete 3D CAD design of machines and assemblies.
- Modernisation and optimisation of existing machine designs.
- Preparation of detailed manufacturing drawings.
- Preparation of assembly documentation.
- Creation of Bills of Materials (BOM).
- Design optimisation for manufacturability and production cost.
- Engineering support during manufacturing, assembly and machine start-up.
Engineering approach
The designs are developed with serial production in mind. Particular attention is paid to manufacturability, production cost, ease of assembly, maintenance access and the possibility of further development of the machine platform.
Fabrit works directly with the customer’s R&D team and can take responsibility for complete mechanical design packages rather than individual CAD tasks.
Results
The cooperation increased the customer’s engineering capacity without the need for permanent expansion of the internal design department.
Production-ready engineering packages support faster development of new machine models, systematic modernisation of existing products and efficient transfer of projects directly to manufacturing.
FABRIT scope
- machine concept development,
- 3D CAD mechanical design,
- modernisation of existing machines,
- manufacturing and assembly documentation,
- Bill of Materials preparation,
- design optimisation,
- engineering support during manufacturing and start-up.
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