This deburring processor is extremely aggressive and very low maintenance. Not only is it more efficient, but it will save on energy, it’s safer, and it’s better suited for a company where cross-training is a staple, with its intuitive user interface as a touchscreen panel. This new deburring machine will cut times required to remove laser slag and tooling burrs from processed parts dramatically. Steelmaster is known for its ingenuity and operator ease of use.
These two new machines are the Steelmaster SMD1 and the Finish Pro 1460. The company has recently added two new machines to their initial processing line of sheet metal prototypes and short run productions. Prototek Sheet Metal Fabrication, in light of the current economic situation, is still experiencing a boom of business.
Prototek Increases Production Speed of Sheet Metal Parts
This allows for all managers to be on the same page, and in a team fashion, strategically place employees on jobs and departments as they see fit to maintain their rapid prototype and production lead times. Production meetings are held early every day, covering all jobs coming in, jobs to be programmed, jobs being worked on on, and jobs that have to ship. The same can also be said about their nine large hardware racking systems, carrying about one thousand types of hardware at any given time! With six large rack systems, they almost always have the required material in stock. Prototek’s stock of sheet metal is key in producing quality parts in a limited time frame. They can also plate prototype and production parts with RoHS chromate, anodize, and iridite, and silkscreen in any color and any size. Prototek is now able to carry many colors and textures of paint and powder coat, eliminating the need to send sheet metal and machined metal parts out to multiple vendors. These new additions allow Prototek to save the customer days of production time, lowering average lead times by 20%! Prototek has incorporated painting, plating, powder coating, and silk screening to their list of capabilities, as well as maintaining a large stock of material, PEM hardware, and assembly hardware. Prototek continues to decrease lead times, making them the fastest rapid manufacturing and prototype sheet metal and machine shop plant in the country, and possibly the US. Prototek Manufacturing decreases lead times by another 20%! Serving industries such as robotics, semi-conductor, telecommunications, military, pharmaceutical, medical, computer technologies and aeronautics, Prototek Manufacturing includes machining, plating, painting, powder coating, silk screening and assembly capabilities all under the same roof to help save our customers time and money on their finished parts requirements. Our quality and turn times continue to be among the best in the industry. Today we are still a family owned and operated business to ensure customers only receive the best sheet metal and machined prototypes and short run production parts. Prototek Manufacturing began in 1987 as a family owned and operated business as a supplier of quick turn precision sheet metal and machined products for the prototype markets.
The handful of vendors that complete and pass their testing process must have quality control systems in place starting with the current ISO programs and meet their country’s top quality programs. Some of the developing countries that Prototek has been targeting to find the right quality conscious vendors of quick turn sheet metal and rapid CNC machining are China, Mexico, Malaysia, Peru, Ukraine, and India, as well as a few others. We have found that by having the parts finished here at our facility by assembling and installing hardware only made in America helps control the quality of our customers’ parts.” Stated Prototek’s production manager, Brian Francoeur. “When looking for a good fit with Prototek, hundreds of foreign companies are put through a rigorous process to ensure that quality, pricing, and delivery are to our highest of standards. This will allow Prototek to become one of the largest quality conscious suppliers of precision sheet metal and CNC machining in the country to emphasize on quick turn around time for their ITAR and non-ITAR customers alike. Prototek is one of the top companies in the country to offer rapid prototyping of precision sheet metal and CNC machining. Prototek Sheet Metal Fabrication and Prototek Machining is beginning an outsourcing campaign to developing countries to increase production and lower cost and lead times while retaining only the highest of quality.