Your product is important to us. We know exactly what it means to get parts right the first time, every time. Reduce the stress of wondering if your part is going to get made right and let us handle every step of what you need for the perfect metal product.
Design for Manufacturability
Are you having issues with parts making good quality components? Are you suppliers giving you quotes at prices higher than you're willing to spend? Quality designs lead to quality parts. Metal Works understanding of all things metal gives them the unique ability to help you find a design for a quality part at a price point that works for you.
Our knowledge and experience will be able to inform you of an estimated part and tool cost up front. We can then work with you on moving to a price point that works best for you.
Quality
Quality is second only to safety in the modern manufacturing facility. Poor quality results in heavy down time, delays, and customer dissatisfaction more than almost any other metric a company can measure.
Metal Works is familiar with every type of defect one is likely to see in a metal part. We are also well informed on the tolerance capabilities of various manufacturing processes. Armed with this knowledge, our experts are able to provide you with a recommendation on the processes your parts should go through to meet your expectations. They are also able to advise you on potential issues, as well as the best way to mitigate them.
Metal Works wants you to have the best parts the first time, every time. We are here to mitigate issues and work to Six Sigma levels of quality and beyond.
New Equipment Installation Assistance
Our experienced project managers have years of experienced specifying, purchasing, and installing heavy equipment and automation. We would be happy to be your representative with vendors and assist you in the decision making process for your next major equipment purchase. Walk us through your plan on what you would like to see. We will get to work on putting together a proposal that best lines up with what you would like to see.
Are you looking to make an investment but not sure where the best place to invest is? Let out team help. We would be happy to analyze your business and come up with a plan that fits best with your needs.
Lean Black Belt Facility Assessment
Most Lean Black Belt professionals have difficulty appropriately assessing metal processing facilities. Our team is different. With many years of experience, at multiple facilities, we have fine-tuned the art of Lean Black Belt encompassing all of metal manufacturing, not just assembly lines.
While others might get caught up in "just in time" manufacturing or moving equipment to make better operating flow, our team understands that there are limits to the practicality in these concepts when it comes to heavy industrial metal process. Our experts may look at elements such as single minute exchange of dies, level loading and planning through Heijunka, and root cause analysis for defects. We have helped make manufacturing facilities more lean, no matter how big and small. Let us put these skills to work for you.
Hobbyist and Inventor Consultation
Are you a hobbyist or inventor looking to have something made out of metal? Metal Works Consultancy Group is willing to work with you in any capacity you need. Do you need help getting a model made so outside companies can quote the work? Are you getting stonewalled because your ideas "aren't significant enough" for most shops to even look at the work? Have you been told your designs aren't manufacturable?
We are here to help. We can walk you through the design process. We will assist in getting model made up. We can walk through your options for part design and the various impacts of it. Trust us with your sourcing needs as we work with job shops to make your design a reality. Or let us walk you through the equipment you need to cut out the vendors and do the work at your home shop.
Stamping and Sheet Metal
Metal stamping and sheet metal fabrication is one of the most expensive methods of manufacturing from a capital standpoint. It requires complex and expensive equipment. Metal works is not only an expert in the quality of making the parts. We are also very familiar with the equipment required to make it.
Let our experts help you put this expensive equipment to use. We would be happy to examine your operation and make recommendations to put your equipment to the optimal use you can for what you have.
Foundry
Molten metal is a complex process. Porosity, cold shut, inclusions, there is no shortage of defects that can be found in castings. Metal works is familiar with sand casting, investment casting, and die casting. Carbon steels, stainless steels, aluminum, copper, bronze, tin, or lead. We understand molten metals and how they work.
Metal Works looks forward to working with you in helping to solve your molten metal problems. With our broad understanding and years of experience. There are few problems we are intimately familiar with and ready to solve.