Design-Driven Metal Fabrication Services
ELO Engineering stands out among our competitors by having a lot of services under our control. We can do a lot of things for our clients without having to outsource projects or services. This gives us tighter control of our timeline and production schedule, allowing us to get projects done faster than some of our competitors.
Having great outsourcing partners is wonderful. But even with a great partner, you are subject to their time table for turning your projects. By having many sheet metal fabrication services in house, we are able to eliminate that risk. In short, we cut sheet metal, smooth the edges, bend it, insert parts like PEM nuts, weld it, grind it, treat it, paint it and assemble it. And we can often do so in five weeks or less.
Our sheet metal fabrication starts at one end of our building and goes to one of our two lasers, a CO2 Trumpf TruLaser or our carbon fiber Trumpf TruLaser. We also have a Wiedemann Vectrum turret for punching parts.
After our sheet metal gets cut, we take any rough edges off with our deburring equipment. This prevents our team or yours from cutting themselves on any rough edges the laser or punching equipment might have left.
Once our projects get through welding, we move them into our cosmetic level grinding department. Those welds leave bumps and marks, and if those marks are going to be customer facing, we turn them into smooth surfaces. Often, we weld several parts together that appear seamless to the naked eye. Some of our projects need machined parts, which we make to assemble parts and for internal projects.
After we have smooth parts, we take it to our treatment department where the metal is cleaned and prepared for paint. Once those parts have been cleaned and dried, they go to our paint department. We provide both wet paint and powder coat capabilities with ovens to bake the product.
Once those edges are smooth, we move the project to press brake forming. We turn our 2 dimensional flat sheet of metal into three dimensional products.
After those pieces are formed, the project moves to spot welding, PEM assembly or welding, as appropriate for the project. If these are electronics housings, they will need PEM assembly for stand off points to insert a printed circuit board. If we are creating a housing for a water purification system, it will likely move to our MIG and TIG welder who can create sturdy frames which can tolerate the weight the assembly will need to bear.
When products have been painted, we can do light assembly, putting products together.
Then, we box them up, put them on a pallet – or sometimes do that in reverse order - and we ship the product to you with our own dock truck or your preferred method of transportation.
With all these sheet metal fabrication services under one roof in Minneapolis, we turn parts quickly to keep your team running. If you are curious to learn more about any of these, please click through to the specific page!
Do you have questions about getting your product made? Please contact us at info@elo1.com.