The Process of Custom Metal Fabrication

Posted by johnpreston on August 6th, 2015

A spring manufacturer is actually a metal fabricator since he is using metals to produce their springs. Of course there are springs made of plastic, but most springs used in all types of consumer products, from small appliances to big engines for large generators, are made of metal.

The raw materials used in making custom springs come from stock metal such as metal rods, sheet metal and metal bars. They are sold in different materials, sizes and specifications.

Expert Metal Fabricator
If a metal fabricator has already established its reputation in the industry, you can expect him to be able to create metal products that are wide and varied concerning their shapes, sizes and properties.

He will be able to create custom metal components that are unique and especially suited for a certain purpose. Among the products that he will be able to produce are compression springs for special types of engines.

These springs will be made of a special metal, and custom fabricated so that it can provide the strength and durability for which it will be used. Such springs are a bit expensive than standard springs because they are made-to-order.

Types of Custom Spring Fabrication Services
You will need the services of a spring fabrication services if you are developing a unique product that you want to market. That product will need to have a proto-type before you can allow it to be mass-produced.

The prototype will be your test if the product that you have envisioned will really work as you designed it, and if your target market will bite it. In other words, you need a custom fabricator to make your idea a working reality.

The steps in custom fabrication of any metal spring or metal component are the following:

1) Design – this is the conceptualization of your idea. You will need the metal fabricator to assess if what you have in mind can be turned into reality based on the existing technology, equipment and know how.

2) Build – this is the stage where you will construct the actual proto type of your concept.

3) Finishing and assembly – the purpose of this step is to improve the quality of your product by using post-fabrication processes.

After you have created your prototype or several of them, you need to have them tried by other people. This is the only way you can determine if they will really fulfill a certain need that will make them saleable.

You have to let your product undergo this process before mass-producing it so that any modifications and improvements required based on the feedback of the trials will be incorporated in your product before it goes into the market. Your product must absolutely have positive feedback from all those who tried it to ensure that it will succeed when it is launched.

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