mardi 21 janvier 2014

Using A Baltimore Machine Shop For The Parts You Need

By Grace Rivas


Every item you manufacture requires the use of several parts assembled by your personnel. These parts may be small or large and they might be created from any number of metals. The plastic pieces you use must come from someone. The Baltimore machine shop, just around the corner, may be the best place to acquire these items.

Many of the machine shops have gone away, however, many are still available for this work. Even with the new technologies, such as 3D printing and extrusion that has create specialty items, these shops fill a vital role. Looking into what is needed for the manufacture of the item you produce will indicate what can be gained from a relationship with a good shop.

Some shops are separately owned entities and work for whoever has a need for their services. Others have been established as a stand alone shop wholly owned by a parent company. This makes for easy to obtain and cost effective pieces for their wide range of products. These shops can also offer their excess capacity to others in need of quality work.

One of the most recognizable items that a machine shop will produce is the case parts for computers and also the bodies of appliances and electronic merchandise. Raw material will brought into the shop on rolls and run through the many machines needed to finish the work. These rolls can be any metal that is needed for the product. Tin, alloyed aluminum or steel will make up the majority of this material.

One of the first things will be the cutting of the proper length and width. This can be followed by the punch press. These extremely heavy units will form the recesses, cut the holes and, often, perform the threading of the many screw holes necessary for final finishing. These punch presses will do the work on the flat pieces and personnel will move them to other machines for other work.

All case parts for anything that is assembled will be bent into various angles by the use of a commercial metal brake. This allows the flat piece to conform to the dimensions that have been designed into it. The employees of the machine shop spend a lot of time on this piece of equipment and they can perform many tasks almost simultaneously.

Many other activities can be carried out by these professional shops. Lathing, which is the taking of a piece of stock and turning it into a bar for an axle, for example, is done. The grinding, cutting, threading, bending and burnishing of a whole host of things are done with equal skill. The making of specialty screws is also a very valuable process for that innovation you are creating in your own plant.

The design phase has probably already happened and this is from your engineers. Now, let the Baltimore machine shop show you they know what it is you need and how fast they can provide it. Once their engineers get it, all of the imagination and design elements you need can be transformed into a piece of metal of just the correct size, shape and quality.




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